Biden quietly OKs more 2,000-pound bombs & warplanes for Israel

Despite growing worldwide calls for an arms embargo, the Biden administration in recent days has approved the transfer of billions of dollars worth of new weapons shipments to Israel, including warplanes and 2,000-pound bombs that have been dropped on densely populated areas of Gaza with devastating results. The Washington Post reported

2,500 farmers get agri-incentive in Jhenaidah

A total of 2,500 small and marginal farmers in Sadar upazila of the district were given high quality jute seeds free of cost as agriculture incentive under the incentive and rehabilitation programme for the cultivation of jute in the current Kharif season. Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Razia Akhtar Chowdhury addressed

2 killed in road crash

Two people were killed and five others injured as a microbus ploughed into a roadside fish market at Gobindaganj upazila on Friday night. The deceased are Haren Chandra Das, 45, and his cousin Pratab Chandra Das, 26, residents of Uttar Dharmapur village of the upazila. Police said the accident took place around