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Filth at the front door: A health centre drowning in its own neighbourhood's waste

10 June 2026, 15:50 PM
Patients travel miles for care in Moulvibazar's Robirbazar, only to be met by years of neglect and rotting refuse
10 June 2026, 15:50 PM
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BGB Battalion-55 deploys drones, expands community outreach along 103km frontier

8 June 2026, 11:45 AM
The highest level of alert has been issued across the border area
8 June 2026, 11:45 AM
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World Environment Day / Lawachhara: The forest that breathes plastic

6 June 2026, 00:00 AM
The Lawachhara National Park, once one of Bangladesh’s most biodiverse forests, has now become the country’s most “scenic rubbish dump”.
6 June 2026, 00:00 AM
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World Environment Day / Lawachara: The forest that breathes plastic

5 June 2026, 13:02 PM
Once a shelter to 460 species, Lawachara National Park, now is plagued by tourists littering carelessly
5 June 2026, 13:02 PM
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Hides left to rot in Moulvibazar

1 June 2026, 00:00 AM
Hundreds of sacrificial animal hides were lost across rural areas of Moulvibazar during Eid-ul-Azha due to a lack of buyers and a salt shortage, which left traders unable to preserve much of what they collected.
1 June 2026, 00:00 AM
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Hides rot, dumped in rivers as trade hits new low in Moulvibazar

31 May 2026, 12:28 PM
A shortage of salt, absence of buyers and mounting unpaid dues forced traders and villagers to dump or bury sacrificial hides across Moulvibazar this Eid-ul-Azha
31 May 2026, 12:28 PM
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Illegal silica sand extraction raises environmental concern

30 May 2026, 22:03 PM
The continuous sand extraction caused soil erosion beneath pillars of three bridges
30 May 2026, 22:03 PM
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Farmers blame seed quality for crop failure in Kulaura

30 May 2026, 21:41 PM
During recent visits to Mahtabpur, Ismailpur and Rajanpur villages under Hazipur union, watermelon and tomato fields were found to have underperformed
30 May 2026, 21:41 PM
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School without regular teacher

The two hundred students of No. 44 Basudeb Saran Government Primary School in Baudharan village in Jagannathpur upazila of
17 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Khowai under threat

Environmentalists and civil society members at a rally in Khowaimukh area of Habiganj district town on Friday demanded immediate
16 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Flood-ravaged roads

Most of the roads in Sylhet and Moulvibazar have been badly damaged by flood, severely affecting communication.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Hard time for haor fishermen

A large number of people dependent on fishing in the haor areas of Moulvibazar and Sylhet districts are passing days amid hardship as fishes are not available even during the ongoing monsoon.
12 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Floods affect over 5 lakh

Scarcity of drinking water and food has further aggravated the situation in the flood-hit regions of Sylhet.
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM

Flood-hit haor people frustrated

Suspension of Open Market Sale (OMS) has frustrated the flood-affected haor people in Sunamganj and Moulvibazar.
5 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Moulvibazar Flood: Relief for victims scanty

With the overall flood situation in Moulvibazar remaining unchanged, thousands of people in the district's three upazilas have been suffering due to shortage of relief supplies.
5 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Flood fury rages

Fresh onrush of flood water has submerged parts of the hilly southeast -- Bandarban and Chittagong -- while Sylhet in the country's
4 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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All rivers overflowing

The flooding in Sylhet might take an alarming turn and trigger landslides in the hilly areas as heavy rain is expected to continue falling
3 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Floods worsen in Sylhet, Moulvibazar

Sylhet might be on the verge of another disaster after 2004 as flood has affected most of its upazilas following overflow of all the rivers, canals, haors and marshes due to heavy rain and flash flood.
2 July 2017, 18:00 PM
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Risky living on hill slopes

With over hundreds of people dead in recent landslides in some districts of the country including two in Barlekha upazila of
28 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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Joy of Eid eludes flood victims

The Eid-ul-Fitr hardly brought any joy for the flood hit people in different areas of Juri, Kulaura and Barlekha upazilas under the district as the affected people, many of them living at shelter centres, are surviving on relief.
28 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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Eid just another day full of uncertainty

“We will celebrate Eid next year. I promise I will get you new dresses then. I will also cook shemai (vermicelli) for you.
24 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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Thousands suffer as road communication snapped

Around 10 thousand people from several area passing hard days as their movement is badly hampered following earth collapse at
22 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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Smuggling on the rise in Sunamganj haors

Smuggling is on the rise on the wake of the flash floods that wrought havoc in the Sunamganj haor region. Border
21 June 2017, 18:00 PM

People living in hills in panic

People living atop or beside hills in the district are passing days in panic, especially after Achhia Begum, 35, and her daughter Fahmida
20 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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Large cracks appear in Madhabkunda

Cracks have developed again in Madhabkunda waterfall area of Barlekha upazila under the district on Monday night, making the
20 June 2017, 18:00 PM

Fatwa leaves family ostracised for ten years

Village life is supposed to be quiet but for Fatir Ali and his family, from Eraligul village in Moulvibazar's Juri upazila it's far too quiet.
15 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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Magurchhara 'blowout day' today

Twenty years into Magurchhara gas field explosion, compensation for huge damage to Lawacherra forest worth crores of taka is yet to
13 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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Jackfruit market a centuries-old tradition

Once small now thriving, quiet and crowded, still and bustling, Kathaler Haat, the “Jackfruit Market” in Brahmanbazar of Moulvibazar's
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM

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