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Representative image SURAT: A 14-year-old pregnant girl was found hanging at her home in Unn area, making it the eighth suicide in the city in just 24 hours ending Friday noon. The deceased Jamuna (name changed), a native of Odisha, was studying in Class VIII. Police said Jamuna has four siblings, and she along with her family were planning to go to Odisha soon. On Friday, when her father returned home after buying vegetables, he saw her hanging from the ceiling in the room. She used a dupatt...

Banks show lacklustre performance in disbursing farm stimulus A third of it not yet disbursed even though Bangladesh Bank’s deadline is March 31 Banks are still far from meeting the disbursement deadline for farm loans under the associated stimulus package of Tk 5,000 crore as a third of the fund is yet to be given out. When the package was announced in April last year in the form of a refinance scheme, Bangladesh Bank asked banks to give out the fund by September 30. But they had repeatedly ...

Char people reaping rewarding profits from pumpkin cultivation 466 RANGPUR, Jan 29, 2021 (BSS) – Many char people are reaping rewarding profits currently from pumpkin farming using intercropping and relay methods on char lands and dried-up riverbeds in all five districts of Rangpur agriculture region. Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said char people are getting lucrative prices of newly harvested pumpkin now to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic situation along with reco...

Most fuel and power stocks registered lower profitability in the first half of the current financial year (FY) due to the pandemic-induced economic slowdown. Firms expect that it will take at least six more months for fuel and power consumption to fully recover from the Covid-19 fallout, enabling them to post higher earnings for their investors. Among the eight fuel and power

Local production cools down AC prices Prices of air conditioners have seen a drastic fall in recent years due to increased local production and assembly. Photo: Star Air conditioners (ACs) were once thought of as luxury items that are only enjoyed by the elite, but their prices have seen a drastic fall in the recent years thanks to increased local production and assembly. Jhimi Chakma, a lecturer of the philosophy department at Dighinala Degree College in Khagrachhari, has been using a locally...

Pumpkin farming gets popular in Bogura’s char areas Farmers make huge profits with a little investment Farmers of Boguras char areas alongside the Jamuna and Bangali rivers enjoyed good profit amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic by cultivating different varieties of pumpkins on the abandoned lands with little investment. Sayeed Hosain, a farmer of Batir char under Sariakandi upazila, cultivated pumpkins in the area for the first time just two and a half months ago. He has already harvested...

The impact of the institutionalisation of the elderly in Pakistan PHOTO: FILE The Catholic Church governs three shelter homes in Karachi, where the residents pay minimal fees In the 21 st century, ageing of the population is a significant demographic occurrence and a distinctive trend seen universally (Ameh et al., 2014; Hermalin, Ofstedel, & Tesfai, 2006; Wandera, Kwagala, & Ntozi, 2015). Among the continents, Asia has the most rapidly increasing elderly population (Powell & Khan, 2013), with...

Rukmini Rao from Hyderabad bats for women’s rights, fiercely guards her own independence 0 claps Share on “I had a very happy childhood. I grew up in a household of women. I lived with my great grandmother, grandmother, mother and an aunt and am used to women running the household” says V Rukmini Rao, social and rural development activist who won the Readers’ Choice award at the recently held Femina Awards in the Social Impact category. Hailing from Hyderabad, Rukmini recalls there was ...

Highlights She also unveiled a first-look poster. The actress will be playing the role of the taxi driver in the film. New Delhi: South actress Aishwarya Rajesh took to social media to announce the release of her new film ‘Driver Jamuna’. The actress made the announcement on her birthday on Sunday (January 10) and unveiled a first-look poster of the film. Directed by Vathikutchi fame P. Kinslin and bankrolled by SP Chowdhary, the film will star Aishwarya in the role of a taxi driver. She sh...

LPG prices rise as global markets heat up in winter Each cylinder now costlier by Tk 100 The retail price of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) went up 10 per cent in the domestic market in January after demand rose in Western countries because of winter, pushing up the rate in the international markets. The price of the fuel in the global markets reached $550 per tonne in December, an increase of 17 per cent from $470 in November. The hike caused the price to go up in Bangladesh from January 1. Now...