Bangladesh

Mamun Ahmed, (Staff Reporter) Funded by the Pultee Family Charitable Foundation, a project of the United States Poverty Eradication Program (PEP) Nandigram Belgharia office, food items were distributed among 19 extremely poor families last Wednesday. Each family was given 1 kg of oil, 1 kg of onion, 1 kg of pulses, 5 kg of potatoes, and 20 kg of rice. At the time, the chief guest…

Mamun Ahmed, (Staff Reporter) A school student named Maruf Hossain (16) attempted suicide by consuming pesticide after receiving a notice to face trial in Nandigram, Bogra. Maruf consumed pesticide at his home in Khadna village of Bhatra union of Nandigram upazila on Tuesday (March 29) afternoon. Maruf Hossain is the son of Manik Hossain of Khadna village and Datra Khan Chowdhury is the son of High…

Mamun Ahmed, (Staff Reporter) A special information gathering was held in Nandigram, Bogra, on the occasion of the golden jubilee of independence with the participation of women. The second phase of the women's empowerment project through information and communication technology to build a digital Bangladesh was organized by the National Women's Organization, Upazila Information Center of the Ministry of Women and Children Affairs, on Tuesday afternoon in Banshbaria village of Burail Union of the upazila.

Mamun Ahmed, (Staff Reporter) Nandigram-Kahalu MP Alhaj Mosharraf Hossain donated 1 lakh taka to Ailpunia Mojaddediya Furfura Sharif. Yesterday, Monday after Asr, he donated 1 lakh taka from the TR Nagad fund to Ailpunia Mojaddediya Furfura Sharif. Present at the time were Upazila BNP member Adar Hossain, Alexander, 1st Burail Union BNP President Alauddin, General…

Mamun Ahmed, (Staff Reporter) Nandigram Police Station has arrested 4 people in drug and women and children cases in a police operation in Nandigram, Bogra. According to information received from the police station, under the direction of Nandigram Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md. Anwar Hossain, SI ATM Rafiqul Islam, SI Md. Rezaul Karim-1, SI Md. Tariqul Islam, ASI Md.…

Mamun Ahmed, (Staff Reporter) Today, Monday, a field day and technical discussion on sunflower crops was held in Nandigram, Bogra under the Oil Crop Production Increase Project. The program was chaired by Upazila Agriculture Officer Md. Adnan Babu and was addressed as the chief guest by Project Monitoring Officer Md. Akherur Rahman. Upazila Agriculture Extension Officer Apurba…

Mamun Ahmed. (Staff Reporter) The Independence and National Day was celebrated with due dignity in Nandigram, Bogra. The day's program began with a thirty-one gun salute at sunrise on Saturday. Later, various organizations and institutions including the upazila administration placed wreaths at the Shaheed Minar. At 9 am, the upazila administration organized a ceremony at the Nandigram Munsur Hossain Degree College ground, where police,…

Mamun Ahmed. (Staff Reporter) The Upazila Agriculture Office was the first to participate in the fair organized in Nandigram, Bogra to mark the Liberation Festival and Golden Jubilee of Independence. In this fair, which ran from March 17 to March 23, 32 government and private departments presented their departmental activities at the fair, highlighting the successes and achievements of Bangladesh in the past 50 years. Among all the stalls…

Mamun Ahmed. (Staff Reporter) Police have recovered the body of a newborn baby from the side of the road in Nandigram, Bogra, after receiving a call on the national emergency service number 999. Police recovered the body abandoned next to a water body in the Tinmatha area of Dhaquir on the Katham-Kaliganj road of the upazila at around 12 noon today (March 23). Locals said that a newborn baby was found abandoned next to a water body in the afternoon…

Staff Reporter The retail price of bottled soybean oil has been reduced by Tk 8 per liter to Tk 160. The price of 5 liters of bottled oil has been reduced by Tk 35 to Tk 760. The price of open soybean oil has been reduced by Tk 7 to Tk 136. After a meeting with officials of oil producing companies at the Secretariat on Sunday (March 20),…