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Farmers fear losses as Boro, potato seeds rot in biting cold

Agriculture

Farmers fear losses as Boro, potato seeds rot in biting cold

Two tea planters in Panchagarh uproot their tea plants protesting soaring production costs and plummeting sales prices. They claim to receive only Tk8-Tk10 per kg of tea leaves when production cost is between Tk20-Tk25. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Khorshed Alam

Bangladesh

Hope for tea cultivation in plain land dimming

Urmi (left), a Hijra politician from the Bangladesh Supreme Party, on a campaign trail at a Gazipur village to seek votes for her in the upcoming general polls. Rangpur city’s independent aspirant Anwara Islam Rani is one of the two third-gender candidates for the 7 January general elections. Photos: Collected

Bangladesh

Two transgender candidates poised to rattle social and political norms

Anwara Islam Rani, independent candidate for Rangpur-3, at an election campaign recently. Photo: Courtesy

Politics

Anwara Rani: The school dropout Hijra MP aspirant bracing to unseat JaPa in Rangpur

Hero Alom. Photo: Collected

Politics

Hero Alom's wealth drops, wife's wealth increases in 5 years

A file photo of Shariful Islam Jinnah, Jatiya Party MP from Bogura-2 (Shibganj) constituency. Photo: Collected

Bangladesh

Bogura-2: Jinnah’s land rose 1200 times, wife’s asset worth Tk1cr

Politics

Bogura-7: Lawmakership meant Aladdin's lamp for Bablu

Hero Alom talking to the reporters during Dhaka-17 by-polls held on 17 July 2023. Photo: Collected

Politics

Not Supreme Party, Hero Alom to contest in JS polls as Bangladesh Congress. candidate

Photo: Khorshed Alam

Economy

Vegetable transport cost from Bogura up by 40%

Weeds grow around a signboard, installed in 2018, at a 200-acre plot allotted for a proposed project to build a workshop for carriage manufacturing in Saidpur, Nilphamari. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Khorshed Alam

Economy

Tk20cr project to set up railway carriage factory stalls for 7yrs

A factory presents a tumbledown look at the Naogaon Bscic Industrial Estate which is grappling with several challenges. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Khorshed Alam

Bangladesh

Gas crisis, poor drainage push Naogaon BSCIC Industrial Estate to brink

A man works in a garment waste-based clothing factory in Saidpur. photo: TBS

Economy

Fabric scraps-based clothing business boom in Saidpur

Workers assemble products in the Royal Relax Metal Industries in Saidpur, Nilphamari. Royal Relax Metal is the only export-oriented cookware company in the country’s northern region. Photo: TBS

Industry

Saidpur's cookware puts footprint in global market