Growers in Tangail have big smiles on their face as their off-season watermelons are fetching higher prices since demand has been good owing to the sweltering heat.
Tribute to Shabbir Ahmed Shuvo: Shabbir Ahmed Shuvo, a Bangladeshi scholar of international repute, has left his legacy for many generations to come. His untimely death three years ago created a void in the emerging field of stochastic optimisation theory, where Shuvo established his indelible mark within a very short span, but an incredibly frenetic life filled with unbounded
Despite tough vigilance and special drives by law enforcers, narcotics, especially yaba, smuggling increased in 2021, when compared with the previous year.
Gone are the days when extortionists and blackmailers would take advantage of people’s religious beliefs and superstitions and extort money from them by pretending to be “Djinn er Badshah” the king of genies over the phones.
After repeated revision of deadlines and costs, the long-awaited Joydevpur-Elenga Highway project is finally nearing completion and even at a slightly lower expenditure.