Dwoha Chowdhury

Sadia Begum, a nine-year-old girl from Badambagicha, an area near the Sylhet International Stadium, was carrying her three-year-old younger brother Sami up a hillock adjacent to the venue.

Sylhet is always a great welcoming venue, whether it is cricket or football.

People going to visit Tanguar haor first come to Sunamganj town. Then they take an auto-rickshaw or motorcycle to Tahirpur upazila, which is 35km away. But nowadays the travel would not be as easy as before -- the road has been devastated.

Kushiara Power Company Ltd, a power plant located in Sylhet's Fenchuganj, has started to supply 110 megawatts of electricity to the

Fresh onrush of flood water has submerged parts of the hilly southeast -- Bandarban and Chittagong -- while Sylhet in the country's

The flooding in Sylhet might take an alarming turn and trigger landslides in the hilly areas as heavy rain is expected to continue falling

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.

Heavy rain, flash flood and excessive waterflow from the upstream rivers have worsened the flood situation in many upazilas of the division.

Severe shortage of fodder has turned into a crisis in the haor areas as the recent flash flood damaged almost all the Boro crops in the north-eastern part of the country, with the district being the worst hit.

Even a few months ago, Khushi Rani Das was all smiles when she saw the green sheaves of Boro paddy on her two acres of land in Sunamganj's Tahirpur.

Around a thousand people gathered in front of Bishwambarpur upazila parishad complex on Friday morning to buy rice being sold as part of an Open Market Sale scheme without any idea who were to get the assistance.

The death of a few thousand ducks at the beginning of the breeding season has led to fear and apprehension among the farmers in Sylhet division.

Farmers and public representatives have reiterated their demand for declaring Sunamganj haor belt a disaster zone prior to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to the area today.

Tens of thousands of haor people are still waiting for food and other relief items to reach them. The early flash flood first hit the country's north-eastern region late last month and continued to inundate more and more areas till last week, destroying almost all of the region's Boro crop.

It was the third day he went to the bazaar in Bishwambarpur upazila, stood in a long queue for hours to buy rice and flour at subsidised prices but returned home empty handed.

Ashik Miah, a 45-year-old farmer of Jaladhartupi village, was staring helplessly at his inundated paddy field as he sat beside Dekhar

Farmers in the northeastern backswamp are all too familiar with flash floods. Rice paddies grown just once a year in this vast haor remain at the mercy of nature. But thousands of growers in this wetland ecosystem had never experienced flash floods striking this early as in this season, completely destroying paddies in over one lakh hectares of land.

With gas, power and water supplies restored and some shops and roads reopened, many people were returning home in Sylhet's Shibbari area, but many of them found the stench of decomposed bodies of two suspected militants at “Atia Mahal” difficult to bear.

Police have brought the family members of “Neo JMB” leader Maynul Islam Musa, believed to have been killed in an army operation at a militant den in Sylhet, to the north-eastern city yesterday to collect their DNA samples.

Investigators are looking into the conducts of the people who died and were injured in Saturday's twin blasts in Sylhet.