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79,000 cattle vaccinated in Chuadanga

CHUADANGA, Dec 16: A total of 79,000 cattle have been vaccinated as part of preventive measures against foot diseases in four upazilas of the district during the first five months of current fiscal year. The four diseases against which the cattle were vaccinated are khora, tarka, badla and mums. Livestock Department sources said of the total vaccinated cattle 15,000 in Sadar Upazila, 22,000 in Alamdanga, 24,000 in Damurhuda and 18,000 in Jibannagar Upazila. District Livestock Department has fixed a target of vaccinating 1,40,000 cattle in four Upazilas in the current fiscal, reports BSS.

39th branch of Mercantile Bank inaugurated

COMILLA, Dec 16: The 39th branch of Mercantile Bank Limited (MBL) was inaugurated here on Wednesday. Chairman of the audit committee of the board of directors of the bank AKM Shahid Reza inaugurated the branch. Among others, vice-chairman of MBL Alhaj Mosharraf Hossain, managing director and chief executive Dewan Mujibur Rahman, former whip Mujibul Hoque, Rotarian Alhaj Omar Faruk, directors Tanjin Aman, Amanullah, Shahebullah and branch manager Golam Sarwar, were present, reports BSS.

13 shallow machine stolen in Monirampur

Monirampur, Dec 16: 13 shallow machine were stolen in a night from a village of Keshabpur upazila, it is learned.

According to the report on Thursday at night thefts state the machine from the field of Agorhati village under Gourighona union parishad.

The thieves took the shallow machine of Abdur Razzaque Mollah, Sultan Hossain, Abdul Mannans Abdul Bari, Abdul Hamid Fakir, Ashadul Hossain, Rouf Hossain, Ali Hossain, Halim Dafodar, Faruq Biswas, Resual Islam, Ahad Ali Khan and Amir Hossain.

The farmers said the price of each machine is Taka 12 to 14 thousand.