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Staff Correspondent: International Farakka Committee yesterday demanded the implementation of the Teesta Master Plan to protect three crore people living in its basin in Bangladesh from heavy flood and river banks erosion.Atiqur Rahman Salu, chairman of IFC, voiced the demand in an opinion exchange meeting at the Abdus Salam Hall…

Staff Correspondent: A group of students from different universities and colleges staged demonstrations at the office of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) yesterday afternoon in protest against the recent fuel price hike. At one stage of the demonstrations, they entered the board room of the BPC where the organisation’s chairman of…

Mahfuja Mukul: Farmers are under ‘two-way pressure’ due to increase in prices of urea fertilizer and diesel in the country. As a result, some are thinking of reducing cultivation or keeping the land fallow from the next season. Economists also say that if the budget is not adjusted, farmers will…

Khulna Bureau: Pilot project of producing Vannamei Shrimp or King Prawn in Khulna is showing chances for the fish to emerge as an alternative to Bagda Shrimp or Tiger Prawn.Once produced successfully, the fish has the potential to increase the presence of the country’s potential shrimp industry in the global…

Farmers cry for rain Special Correspondent: In the Bengali calendar, these two months of Ashar-Shravan are the rainy season. During this time, there will be torrential rains, people will suffer, and they will give joy. Water will overflow in canal-bil-pond. Farmers will have a busy time planting seeds in mud…

Each drowning death is preventable: WHO, UNICEF Industry Desk: Marking the World Drowning Prevention Day, WHO and UNICEF yesterday called on the governments, development partners, communities and individuals each to do their part to raise awareness and work to prevent the untimely deaths of thousands of children across the country.Each…

Khulna Bureau: The Government has earned Tk 2,921 crore throgh exporting 88.81 metric tonnes of frozen shrimp and white fish from Khulna district in 2021-2022 fiscal year.Khulna district has produced more 31,849 metric tonnes of fish against its demand,Joydev Pal, District Fisheries Officer (DFO), Khulna said this while delivering the…

Sheikh Didarul Alam: The Sundarbans, the world’s largest natural mangrove forest, braces for footfalls of greater number of visitors owing to the newly opened Padma Bridge that has brought the famed tourist destination in the south-western region closer to the rest of the country.Travel to the region will be smooth…

Case filed by BSTI Chattogram Bureau: A Chattogram court has issued an arrest warrant against City Group Chairman Fazlur Rahman in a case filed by BSTI.Chattogram’s Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Shariful Alam’s court issued the warrant yesterday.BSTI’s PP Adv Ashraf Khandaker confirmed the matter and said the BSTI had…