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Farhad Iqbal

Correspondent

Working as District Correspondent at Cox’s Bazar for the Daily Observer since April 2014.

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E-mail : farhadiqbal.cox@gmail.com

No Shaheed Minar in 152 educational institutions at Ramu

Farhad Iqbal

Cox’s Bazar: Most of the educational institutions in Ramu upazila of the district have remained without any Shaheed Minar.A total of 152 educational institutions, out of 160, do not have their own Shaheed Minar although it is an instruction of the government to observe the International Mother Language Day on February 21 in all educational ...

Tk 400cr dried fish powder exported from Cox’s Bazar annually

Farhad Iqbal

COX’S BAZAR, Feb 15: Dried fish powder worth about Tk 400 crore is exported from the district every year, according to field sources.The Nazirartek dried fish wholesale centre is the highest in Asia in producing dried fish where dried fish worth more than thousand crore taka is produced annually. This production is playing a significant ...

New Rohingya slums at hilly areas make Ukhia people angry

Farhad Iqbal

COX'S BAZAR, Feb 7: Locals expressed anger over the growth of new Rohingya slums after destroying forests and hills at Balukhali area of Ukhia upazila here in recent times. In this connection, they are thinking to demonstrate tough agitation if the move is not stopped immediately.Panel Chairman and Member of No. 1 Ward under Palongkhali ...

New Rohingya slums at hilly areas make Ukhia people angry

Farhad Iqbal

Cox's Bazar: Locals expressed anger over the growth of new Rohingya slums after destroying forests and hills at Balukhali area of Ukhia upazila here in recent times. In this connection, they are thinking to demonstrate tough agitation if the move is not stopped immediately.Panel Chairman and Member of No. 1 Ward under Palongkhali Union Parishad ...

Crocodile farming in hilly region brings success

Farhad Iqbal

COX'S BAZAR, Feb 4: Crocodile farming at Ghumdhum hilly region at Ukhiya border in the district has brought about an enormous success, ushering in hopes of fetching huge foreign money. The crocodile farming at the hill is considered as Asia's second biggest farming project and the biggest in thesouth Asian countries. The farming can play ...

Tobacco farming going on unabated in forest, riverbank areas

Farhad Iqbal

Cox's Bazar: Despite administrative drives and awareness programmes against tobacco, its cultivation is going on unabated in forest and riverbank areas of the district. Even record quantity of land was brought under tobacco cultivation in Coxâ€™s Bazar and Bandarban districts this year.It was alleged that the tobacco companies are compelling the local farmers to cultivate ...

Tobacco farming going on unabated in forest, riverbank areas

Farhad Iqbal

COX'S BAZAR, Jan 21: Despite administrative drives and awareness programmes against tobacco, its cultivation is going on unabated in forest and riverbank areas of the district. Even record quantity of land was brought under tobacco cultivation in Cox's Bazar and Bandarban districts this year.It was alleged that the tobacco companies are compelling the local farmers ...

Tourists swarm Cox’s Bazar to celebrate New Year

Farhad Iqbal

COX'S BAZAR, Jan 1: Thousands of tourists from home and abroad have swarmed Cox's Bazar sea beach to celebrate the New Year-2017 that began on Sunday. All of the 550 hotels, motels, rest houses and rented flats here have already been jam-packed. Of the hotels and motels, 25 are of five-star standard and others of ...