Mostafa Shabuj

Farmers in Bogura district who grow winter vegetable seedlings used all over the country are counting losses this year due to the late coming of the monsoon season, ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and low selling prices.

Questions are swirling in the air after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan last week ending the rule of West-backed government of Ashraf Ghani. It took

At least seven families are staring at homelessness again in Bogura’s Sadar Upazila after their houses which were gifted by the prime minister developed cracks and were damaged.

Farmers cultivated Aus paddy on a reduced area in Bangladesh this year because of dry weather during the main transplantation season, said farmers and officials.

Just three or four years ago, Shihari and Dumori villages in Bogura’s Adamdighi upazila were buzzing with activity as some 400 small glass vial factories operated in the area.

It is expected that a student graduating from a reputed university would want a good job in the big city.

Seven out of 22 houses built for homeless people under the Ashroyon project-2 have partially collapsed following moderate rainfall in Koyerkhali area of Bogura’s Sherpur upazila four days ago.

“Around one and a half years ago, my sister-in-law, Taslima, died after suffering from post-pregnancy complications. She gave birth to a baby while still on the boat, heading towards the hospital. Unfortunately, she passed away before we made it,” shares 27-year-old Shahida Begum, a local of Kochkhali char.

A homeless freedom fighter and eight others, who have been blessed with a cluster of houses in Shajahanpur, Bogura, have found that even moderate rains can leave their new houses completely flooded.

The long wait of the char people for electricity in Gaibandha’s four upazilas has just prolonged as many electric poles set up by the district palli bidyut samity (rural electrification board) have been engulfed by furious Brahmaputra. The river erosion has taken a serious turn in the district since last month.

The hearsay of young Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan hiding in one of his friend’s house in Gaibandha created confusion.

A mango orchard in Cumilla has seen the introduction of three new variety of mangoes in the country.

Family members of the man, whose body was found at now-suspended Awami League leader’s house in Gaibandha, alleged that police dillydallied recording a murder case for hours, saying that the complaint should make no mention of the role of two police officers.

Gaibandha police has allegedly handed over a trader to a ruling party leader for his failure to pay debt. The leader allegedly kept him confined to his house, and almost a month later, the man was found dead there.

Around 300 women in Modonerpara village of Gaibandha’s sadar upazila have been using water hyacinths from a nearby water-body to craft flower vases for the past month.

The explosion that took three lives in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila on Wednesday was of an abandoned mortar shell of 1971, and no militancy link or sabotage plan was behind it, said police.

Twenty years ago, Abdul Gafur Sheikh was a poor day-labourer and debt-ridden and found it difficult to feed a family of six.

We barely see cross-disciplinary initiatives that try to understand our media, culture, society and politics. In this wake, Dr Ratan Kumar Roy’s Television in Bangladesh: News and Audiences (Routledge, 2021) offers a rich ethnography of television news practices in Bangladesh, with a foreword by Marcus Banks, Professor of Visual Anthropology at Oxford University.

Fauzia Beethi is not a political figure in her area, but everybody knows her in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila for her philanthropic works.

Around 150 students in Sherpur, Bogura, are making profits by rearing deshi (local breed) chickens at their own rooftops or backyards.