Kumar Mohanta News Today

Small businesses in Bangladesh faced substantial hardships in 2023 as their sales took a steep dive last year due to ongoing inflationary pressure in the country, according to various businesspeople.

Around 11,000 flood and erosion affected families in the Brahmaputra river’s shoal areas in Kurigram’s Chilmari are finally experiencing a few specks of joy after finding nutrition support through subsistence farming at their homestead gardens.

Influencers are promoting binary-trading platforms that have been blacklisted by the RBI. Apart from attracting penalties, investors also have no legal recourse if things go wrong.

Aman farmers are apprehending a huge loss this season if the flood situation does not improve in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram within days

The water level of all the rivers, including Brahmaputra and Dudhkumar, have receded in Kurigram point

Farmers in the greater Rangpur region are so far pleased with their mustard yields amid the ongoing harvesting period while prices for the major oilseed are higher compared to what they were last season.

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.

Peanut farmers in the greater Rangpur region have been left disappointed this year as prices for their produce are far below the expected level of Tk 7,000 to Tk 7,500 per maund (37 kilogrammes).

Kans grass has emerged as a significant source of income for farmers in char areas of Kurigram and Lalmonirhat, where the perennial herb native to the Indian subcontinent grows easily on sandy soil.

Eight people, including three teenage boys, were killed, while many others injured, in four separate road accidents in Dinajpur, Barishal and Jashore yesterday.