Aminul Islam

For decades, many of Bangladesh’s indigenous freshwater fish have been disappearing from rivers, canals and other open water bodies.

For nearly 11 months, every unanswered question weighed on Md Syed Ali and his wife, Rekha Begum. Their son, Rimel Mia, 27, had travelled to Russia for work but later found himself caught up in the Russia-Ukraine war.

As elephant numbers grow in the forests of the Mymensingh region, shrinking habitats, blocked migration routes and escalating human-elephant conflict are threatening the future of one of Bangladesh’s last remaining transboundary elephant populations.

People of Trishal in Mymensingh are set to celebrate the birth anniversary of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam at the national level for the first time in nearly two decades, reviving memories of the bard’s formative years in the area that still proudly preserves his legacy.

Boro paddy accounts for nearly 55 percent of Bangladesh’s yearly rice production

The Rangsa river, a tributary of the Old Brahmaputra in Tarakanda upazila of Mymensingh, was once an important waterway for transporting goods to different destinations in the region.

Over the decades, Bangladesh has lost vast swathes of its waterbodies as its population has kept growing.

Md Selim, a grocer from Beltoli Bazar in Mymensingh’s Phulbaria, has been listed as dead in a murder case filed over last year’s July uprising.