How 90 indigenous villages in Sylhet region keep coronavirus at bay
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.
8 August 2020
‘Railway’ syndicate makes money, govt loses revenue
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.
2 August 2020
Archaeologists find Moulvibazar man who discovered copperplate mentioning ancient university
Archaeologists have found the man who had discovered a copperplate mentioning a millennium-old higher-learning centre in Rajnagar upazila of Moulvibazar.
28 July 2020
Alarming rise of cattle theft ahead of Eid
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
26 July 2020
Archaeological team visits Moulvibazar, collects antiquities
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.
26 July 2020
Hill plunderers threaten habitations, ecology in Juri
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.
16 July 2020
Thousands suffer as road condition awful
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.
13 July 2020
Most corona patients recover from home
Most coronavirus patients in the district have successfully recovered from the disease after basic treatment at home.
4 July 2020
OMS List Anomaly: As weird as it gets
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.
2 July 2020
Covid-19 Fallout: Srimangal pineapples going unsold
Unsold stock of country’s favourite Srimangal pineapple continues to grow larger at wholesale warehouses in Moulvibazar’s Srimangal upazila town.
30 June 2020
Cash Assistance List: 2 'NIDs’ for 72 names!
Irregularities have been found in government cash assistance lists for tea workers in Moulvibazar, with fake NID numbers used multiple times.
27 June 2020
Youth successfully cultivates grape in Sreemangal
It is quite a sight finding green grapes hanging from vines, a scene often attributed to the Mediterranean regions. However, this may also become common in Bangladesh soon. Surprised?
26 June 2020
40 deaths, 10 thousand infections in a month threaten rural economy
With cow milk sales plummeting in the past several months amid consumers’ fear of contracting the Covid-19 virus, a considerable number people, whose livelihoods depend entirely on milk sales, are living in constant fear of losing their milk-yielding cows to the deadly cattle LSD virus.
23 June 2020
Covid-19 outbreak disrupts EPI programme
Within a year of birth, children are vaccinated for various diseases as a preventive measure. But Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) is being disrupted here this time due to coronavirus outbreak. Children and pregnant women are not going to the EPI centres to avoid Covid-19 transmission.
8 June 2020
Incentives for Imams: Embarrassing errors taint Kulaura lists
A number of people, who do not lead prayers at mosques, have been named in the lists for the government’s cash assistance to imams in Sylhet’s Kulaura during the Covid-19 pandemic.
5 June 2020
Razed hillock to make room for road
While the administration is busy enforcing various directives of the government to contain the spread of Covid-19 pandemic, destruction of a hillock is going unnoticed in Juri upazila of Moulvibazar.
31 May 2020
80pc tea workers of Sylhet give birth at home
Sumita Kairi, a tea labourer at Daluchhara Tea Garden in Fenchuganj Upazila of Sylhet, gave birth at home. No trained midwife was present during the delivery of her first child. Sumita’s child was born with the assistance of two local elderly women.
19 May 2020
May Day: Large number of children work in tea estates
After her mother passed away, her father remarried and moved elsewhere, and so attending school became a luxury for 12-year-old Sheuly Munda.
30 April 2020
Procurement Delays: Boro farmers of Sylhet in trouble
Delay in government procurement is forcing desperate farmers to sell their paddy at lower prices to rice mill owners and hoarders in Sylhet region.
29 April 2020
Farm Machinery for Haor: Subsidy hiked as dilemma remains
The government recently declared 70 percent subsidy for farmers of the haor region, up from the previous 50 percent, for the purchase of agriculture machinery.
23 April 2020