About 10,000 farmers across five districts, namely Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Gaibandha, Nilphamari and Rangpur, are benefitting from the production, use and sale of vermicompost, which is a natural fertiliser produced by decomposing organic material using earthworms.
Khulna Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 04 May 2021 07:13 PM BdST
Updated: 04 May 2021 07:13 PM BdST
After losing her parents and two sisters in a boat crash on the Padma River in Madaripur, grief is the only thing left to nine-year-old Meem. );
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Quiet, staring blankly at the people around her, the orphaned girl was at her family’s ancestral home at Parokhali village in Khulna’s Terokhada Upazila on Tuesday morning.
A speedboat carrying Meem, her family and over two dozen others crashed into a sand-carrying vessel in Madaripur’s Shibchar on Monday. Rescuers recovered the bodies of 26 people after the accident.
Meem’s father Monir Hossain Shikdar, her mother Hena Begum, and two sisters, 7-year-old Sumi Khatun and 4-year-old Rumi Khatun, all died in the accident.
Twenty-six people were killed as a speedboat capsized after it crashed into a sand-laden bulk carrier in the Padma river in Madaripur yesterday. All the deceased three women, two children and 21 men were passengers of the speedboat. Bodies of 22 victims were handed over to family members till 6:00pm yesterday, said Ashiqur Rahman, inspector of Banglabazar ferry terminal
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Police officers inspect a speedboat that collided with a vessel transporting sand, killing at least 26 people, in Madaripur on May 3. (Photo: AFP)
At least 26 people were confirmed dead and several others were missing after a speedboat carrying dozens of people overturned after hitting an anchored bulkhead in the Padma River in Bangladesh early on May 3.
“The speedboat left from Shimulia ghat [jetty) of Munshiganj district for Bangla Bazar ferry ghat of Shibchar in Madaripur district with an estimated 30 passengers. It hit a sand-laden bulkhead anchored in the river, overturned and sank. A total of 26 bodies have been recovered and the search for the missing has continued,” said Ashikur Rahman, an inspector of naval traffic police in Bangla Bazar.