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According to the case statement, trees were illegally felled from the reserved forest in Paikpara union between January 12 last year and May 15 this year. Photo: Collected

BNP, AL leaders among 20 accused in Satchari tree-felling case

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Forest Department files case on instructions from PMO and environment ministry
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Tea workers intensify protests for Tk 500 daily wage

17 August 2026
Protests spread as workers reject 5% wage increment and demand union election
17 August 2026
The government-run farm has nine ponds, including three for brood fish used in egg collection. Photo: Star

Vacancies, silted ponds leave Moulvibazar govt fish farm struggling

16 August 2026
It can produce only a fraction of the district's demand amid manpower shortages and ageing infrastructure
16 August 2026
monsoon damage in Satchari National Park Bangladesh

Monsoon mayham leaves Satchari wildlife ponds in peril

12 August 2026
Spanning 243 hectares, Satchari is considered one of the country's most biodiversity-rich protected areas
12 August 2026
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Books make a comeback in Sreemangal schools

12 August 2026
During the tiffin break at Victoria High School in Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal, a group of students were doing something that has become quite unusual these days: reading for pleasure.
12 August 2026

Erosion leaves over 100 households at risk

12 August 2026
“Every night we go to bed fearing our house could disappear into the river before morning,” said Anhar Mia, standing beside a cracked flood protection embankment in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila.
12 August 2026
book reading festival in Sreemangal Moulvibazar

In Sreemangal, books are making a comeback

11 August 2026
Hundreds of students are discovering literature beyond their textbooks through a reading festival
11 August 2026
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Indigenous Peoples' Day / Tea, toil and a fading heritage

9 August 2026
A visit to tea gardens in Sreemangal in Moulvibazar and Chanpur in Habiganj found workers picking tea leaves under scorching sun and heavy rain. Many said they had never heard of the day
9 August 2026
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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
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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

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
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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

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
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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
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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
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More attractive Manipuri saris ahead of Eid

Female workers in Sylhet are busy weaving Manipuri garments and handloom items ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr with the help of Ethnic
4 June 2017
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Fishing rampant in Sylhet haors, rivers

A section of fishermen are indiscriminately catching different species of fish including fry and mother fish in the haor areas of Sylhet
29 May 2017
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Rare fishing cat dies in Lawacherra road crash

A fishing cat of vulnerable species and a monkey were crushed to death under the wheels of motor vehicles in Lawacherra forest under
28 May 2017
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It's all about survival

For villagers in haor areas under Sunamganj district, boro cultivation is not just about harvesting.
27 May 2017
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Fish species in haor face threat

A section of fishermen are randomly catching different species of fish including fry and mother fishes in the haor areas, as the ban on
25 May 2017
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Five Sylhet villages under threat of land subsidence

Illegal stone extraction from a popular tourist spot in Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet is creating threat of land subsidence in
23 May 2017
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Many denied VGF cards, nepotism alleged

Many flood-affected farmers in the haor areas of different upazilas under Sunamganj are not getting Vulnerable
20 May 2017
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20 villages still under water in Moulvibazar

At least 20 villages are still under water as they were flooded due to collapse of an embankment on the Juri river in the district on Tuesday.
18 May 2017
Sunamganj haor belt

Flash Flood-Hit Sunamganj: OMS programme tainted by graft

Corruption and irregularities by ruling party men and their relatives appointed as dealers of Open Market Sale have caused the food
10 May 2017
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Four baby civets die

Four baby Indian civets died in Sonapur area under Sadar upazila of Moulvibazar in spite of receiving treatment for one month.
8 May 2017
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Rich feasts on rice for poor

Affected farmers are not getting the rice of the government's VGF (Vulnerable Group Feeding) programme and the VGF cards are being sold in Rajanagor and Rofinagor unions of Sunamganj's Derai upazila, farmers have alleged.
8 May 2017
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Don't lease out water bodies

Jahangir Alam lives off Boro farming in Sunamganj for around seven months. For the rest of the year, he and his family subsist on fishing from the haors.
8 May 2017

Haor flood shatters dream of education

The dream of continuing education of Baki Billah has been shattered by the recent flood in Tanguar haor area of Sunamganj.
6 May 2017

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