Mintu Deshwara

Tea gardeners in Moulvibazar have seen a new business prospect in the market of coffee and started leaning towards coffee cultivation.

Exactly when the world went into a complete standstill due to the coronavirus outbreak, it was also time for Bengal loach or Rani fish to breed. Good weather and total absence of people from the haors due to a shutdown resulted in their return.

Communications on roads in Sunamganj have become extremely difficult after three back-to-back floods destroyed about 930 kilometres of roads in the district.

A mangetout seed invented by a team of researchers of Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) has opened new opportunities for farmers to grow the winter crop round the year.

In the vast expanse of Moulvibazar’s Baikka Beel, there are wooden boxes painstakingly set up some distance apart from each other.

Forty-three-year-old Khairun Begum, a resident of Hajipur union in Moulvibazar, has been getting old-age allowance over the last few years.

Farmers are expecting a bumper harvest of Aus paddy this season, for the first time in Moulvibazar in ten years.

Illegal silica sand lifting at various quarries in Moulvibazar continues unabated while the Bureau of Mineral Development is yet to conduct an environmental impact assessment of the extraction zones despite a High Court order two years ago.

It has been a good time for lemon farmers as they are getting fair prices of the fruit amid the pandemic. The growers in Sreemangal upazila are largely dependent on lemon farming.

No Covid-19 patients have been found so far in 90 punjis (villages) in Sylhet, with each completely isolating itself from outsiders and following strict hygiene protocols.

Summer fruits like watermelon sell very well during normal times, when sweeter and vibrant coloured fruit varieties usually sell better. But this year’s summer is like no other.

More than a hundred abandoned railway staff quarters have been quietly and illegally rented out in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura Junction Railway Station allegedly by a syndicate of insiders within the railways, including a senior assistant engineer and a union leader.

Archaeologists have found the man who had discovered a copperplate mentioning a millennium-old higher-learning centre in Rajnagar upazila of Moulvibazar.

Sharif Mia has been rearing his three cows worth Tk 1.50 lakh for the last two years to sell at the haat ahead of this Eid-ul-Azha, a festival marked

A five-member team of the archaeology department has visited the land of long-lost heritage located in Kalimabad area of Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila -- once known as Chandrapur -- which now lies beneath the ground.

When nature all around the world, including in Bangladesh, is showing signs of rejuvenation amid restricted movement of humans, hillocks in Moulvibazar’s Juri upazila do not seem to catch a break.

Thousands of commuters are badly suffering due to the awful condition of two important roads under the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.

Most coronavirus patients in the district have successfully recovered from the disease after basic treatment at home.

Sunuj Ullah, Eshrak Mia, and Jamal Mia are the husbands of Mohesh Sarkar, Subol Sarkar and Kali Kanto Sarkar, respectively -- at least that’s what a list of beneficiaries for a government food programme shows.

Unsold stock of country’s favourite Srimangal pineapple continues to grow larger at wholesale warehouses in Moulvibazar’s Srimangal upazila town.