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Bumper production of new rice variety BRRI-98 in Cumilla

CUMILLA: The farmers of the Debidwar upazila of the district are happy with the bumper production of the new rice variety BRRI-98 this year of the Aush season.
According to the Agriculture Office sources, this year the new variety BRRI-98 has been cultivated experimentally on 1050 hectares of land in the upazila. As a result of expansion of BRRI-98, about 941 tonnes of additional paddy will be produced with a market value of Taka 2.58 crore.
"The new variety BRRI-98 took 40-60 days less time compared to earlier varieties, paving the way for quadruple crop cultivation in a year", Agriculture Office sources said.

2 MTFE fraudulent held

RAJSHAHI: Police arrested two members of a fraudulent gang on charge of their involvement in grabbing crores of money from people in the district last night.
Police said they were involved in the crime after trapping people through the Metaverse Foreign Exchange (MTFE) app.
The arrested were identified as Dipendranath Saha, 43, son of Dijendranath Saha of Bishuhara village in Mohanpur upazila of the district and Latiful Bari Babu, 42, son of Abdur Rashid of Mohadevpur village in Naogaon district.

RU expels 3 students on proxy charges in entry test

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi University (RU) authority has cancelled admission of one student on charge of unfair means in admission test and expelled three students on charge of their involvement in proxy in the admission test of 2022-2023 academic sessions.
The university authority took the decision today, said a press release signed by Prof Pradip Kumar Pandey, Administrator of Public relation section.
The student whose admission has been cancelled is Ahsan Habib of the Department of Population Science and Human Resource Development.

11 get life-term jail for killing UP member in Lakshmipur

LAKSHMIPUR: A court here today sentenced 11 persons to life- term imprisonment in the murder case of Khorshed Alam Miron, a member of Dattapara Union Parishad under Sadar upazila of the district, in 2019.
Judge of Lakshmipur District and Sessions Judge Court Md Rahibul Islam pronounced the verdict this afternoon.
The court also fined them Taka 20,000 each, in default, they will have to suffer one year more in jail, Public Prosecutor (PP) Advocate Jasim Uddin said.