Mintu Deshwara

About 20 lakh people live in Moulvibazar. But a large part of the population is outside the coverage of family planning as the district family planning office and union health and family welfare centres have been running with shortage of manpower, serious medicine crisis and inadequate infrastructure.

Only three months after completion of renovation work, the two-kilometre-long road stretching from Kadamtola Bazar to Tanmeuhari village in Sunamganj’s Dharmapasha upazila developed several cracks at different places.

The rainfall and low temperature in the last few days came as a boon for the tea gardens in Sylhet Division as the favourable weather

In death, religious harmony is found alive at the cemetery in Patrokhola Tea Garden in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila.

In 2017, the shock was overwhelming for Chan Mia -- he lost all the Boro paddy grown on seven acres of land to flash floods. The next year, the paddy he cultivated on three acres was damaged. This time it was pest attack.

The three-day long Jatiya Nazrul Sammelan ended recently at the Moulvibazar Government High School auditorium. The conference was jointly organised by Moulvibazar District Administration and the Nazrul Institute.

Protik Theatre also honoured numerous people for their notable contributions to the society.

Farmers were harvesting boro paddy days before those could ripen in Hakaluki Haor in Moulvibazar after rain accompanied by hailstorm damaged crops on vast tracts in the last few days.

Wild monkeys, entering localities in search of food, are creating nuisance in 15 villages of Juri upazila in Moulvibazar.

The government's initiative of providing indigenous children with free textbooks, printed in their mother languages, faces a setback in Sylhet division due to a shortage of teachers trained to teach in those languages.

Compared to last year's count, the number of migratory birds has more than doubled this year at Baikka Beel -- a bird sanctuary spread over 1,000 hectares of area in Hail Haor of Moulvibazar's Srimangal upazila.

Agricultural production and ecological balance are under threat in Moulvibazar as influential brickfield owners are forcing landowners to sell topsoil, the raw material for bricks.

Migratory birds usually start flocking in Hakaluki Haor, the largest water body in the country, and delight visitors with their chirping and fluttering this time every year.

Disregarding environmental laws, illegal hill cutting continues unabated in different areas of Moulvibazar and its adjoining areas.

Ultra-poor tea workers in the district are shivering in the chilly winter as they are passing days in extreme misery without warm clothes. People living in the tea gardens are more vulnerable.

A bridge built 21 years ago over a canal at Chilarkandi village in Moulvibazar's Kulaura upazila remains useless as it has no approach roads.

Thousands of farmers in Sunamganj are worried as rats are eating up their paddy at Jahangirnagar union under Sadar upazila in Sunamganj Haor area.

Two culverts over two canals in Hakaluki Haor area at Shahpur village in Juri upazila remain useless due to lack of approach roads, much to the suffering of thousands of people in the area.

Pest attacks and import of Indian mandarins have caused severe setback for the mandarin growers in the district.

Defying court order, local influential people are illegally fishing in Gutaura Haorkhal, a water body under Hakaluki Haor in Barlekha upazila.