Railway relics left to gather dust
3 August 2026
British-era heritage items face decay across Mymensingh
3 August 2026
Weak utilities, security gaps stifle growth at Sherpur BSCIC estate
15 June 2026
The Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) industrial estate in Sherpur is grappling with poor infrastructure, inadequate utility services and security concerns, with entrepreneurs warning that the problems are discouraging investment and constraining industrial growth.
15 June 2026
First commercial crocodile farm gasping for survival
26 March 2026
At present, the Reptiles Farm Ltd is as good as abandoned, farm sources say
26 March 2026
Mymensingh a land of stories, songs and untapped tourism
24 January 2026
With nearly 250 years of history behind it, Mymensingh stands quietly as one of Bangladesh’s most culturally rich regions, yet remains largely underexplored.
24 January 2026
3,000 Phulbaria women turn hogla leaf crafts into source of income
18 September 2025
Earn up to Tk 12,000 a month
18 September 2025
Traffic chaos plagues Trishal
13 September 2025
For over two decades, unchecked encroachment by roadside vendors and illegal three-wheeler stands has been causing severe traffic congestion at Darirampur Bus Stand on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Trishal upazila, leaving thousands of commuters to suffer daily.
13 September 2025
150-year-old printing press left to decay
28 August 2025
The remains of a printing press, believed to be around 150 years old, have been left abandoned for decades near Mrittunjoy School in Mymensingh.
28 August 2025
Dhobaura–M’singh road in a sorry state
22 August 2025
The 30-kilometre stretch from Mymensingh’s Dhobaura to Tarakanda has become almost unusable, causing immense suffering for thousands of people who travel on the road.
22 August 2025
Cheap and durable, cane products hold huge potential
Though plastic, plywood and board furniture have captured the market, the demand for those made from cane has not disappeared completely
26 February 2023
Muktagacha BSCIC plots left untouched for 32 years
The development of an industrial area in Muktagacha upazila of Mymensingh has barely begun even though more than three decades have passed since the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) initiated the plan.
13 February 2023
Bamboo craftsmen being battered by higher input costs
Life has become exceedingly difficult for craftsmen that make different bamboo products used in agriculture and fishing as production costs have soared in recent years.
26 January 2023
Entrepreneurs fret over lack of gas connection
Azizul Haque Talukder, the proprietor of Mahi Taj Iron Industries, began running his factory at the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industry Corporation (BSCIC) estate in Netrakona in 2009 in the hopes that he would get a gas connection soon.
25 December 2022
Terry towel makers taking their products abroad
Terry towel makers at an industrial estate of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Kishoreganj have shrugged off the coronavirus-induced economic downturn as production has reached pre-pandemic levels amid growing orders from abroad.
13 December 2022
Mymensingh BSCIC: Businesses irked by rising costs of raw materials
Businesses at the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industry Corporation’s (BSCIC) industrial estate in Mymensingh are feeling the bite of higher raw material costs coupled with rampant load-shedding, according to various entrepreneurs.
7 November 2022
Land port in Mymensingh to operate in full swing soon
The Gubrakura-Karaitali land port in Haluaghat upazila of Mymensingh could go into full-fledged operation next month as the construction of all necessary infrastructure was completed last month, according to officials.
30 October 2022
Country’s first commercial crocodile farm eyes revival
The country’s first commercial crocodile venture, The Reptiles Farm Ltd, is now making efforts to bounce back from the pandemic-induced business slowdown, riding on the exports of crocodiles and skins.
14 October 2022
Small fish with big potential
The Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) has conserved and improved 37 domesticated varieties of freshwater fish over the past 30 years, bringing hopes that endangered breeds can be preserved to satisfy both local and global demand.
5 October 2022
Will their thirst be ever quenched?
There seems to be no let-up in the sufferings of the Hajong people for pure drinking water. The century-old suffering of the indigenous people living in Netrakona’s Kalmakanda upazila is yet to be mitigated despite umpteen pledges of the public representatives.
5 April 2022
Price hike of fish feed keeps farmers in trouble
The rising cost of fish feed has dealt a fresh blow to thousands of aquaculturists in Mymensingh who had only just started recovering from the coronavirus fallout as transportation and other facilities returned to normal after economic activities resumed.
5 April 2022
Boro on 700 hectares submerged
Hundreds of haor farmers in Sunamganj, Netrakona and Kishoreganj are left distraught after about 700 hectares of paddy fields became inundated in the last four days.
3 April 2022
Farmers turn to sunflowers for a decent profit
Farmers across Bangladesh are more inclined than ever to cultivate sunflowers as an alternative to traditional paddy crops that do not offer much profit.
7 March 2022
Feeding the unfed
Nree Foundation, a voluntary organisation based in Sherpur, has been serving daily lunch to the unfed people since August last year to alleviate the impact of coronavirus pandemic. The programme titled “Food for the Hungry” has come as a respite for the destitute.
7 March 2022
Brahmaputra dying a slow death
For the longest river in the country, the Brahmaputra is in quite the awful state. Years of rampant river grabbing and sand lifting has put its existence in such a crisis that even its tributaries are in danger today.
20 November 2021
Bringing animals back from the edge
Netrakona’s Durgapur upazila is home to a forest area that stretches across both sides of the border with India. Also known as Susang Durgapur, it plays host to a diversity of wild animals.
5 November 2021
Mymensingh stuck in gridlock
Long queues of cars, buses, rickshaws and motorbikes -- an inseparable image associated mostly with life in metros -- like Dhaka and Chattogram. However, traffic jam, these days, has become a regular phenomenon in the somewhat small divisional city of Mymensingh as well.
4 November 2021
An ancestral profession lives on
Some 200 families of Bade Majhira village in Muktagacha upazila of Mymensingh have been making a living by making fishing rods. This has been an ancestral profession of these families for around a century.
15 October 2021
Waterlogged for four months a year!
For around four months a year -- from June to September -- thousands of residents of Balashpur Madhyapara area in Mymensingh city have to sit through debilitating waterlogging.
8 October 2021
Mymensingh gears up for Durga Puja
For the past two years, Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bengali Hindu community, had lost its colours to the pandemic.
7 October 2021