Masuk Hridoy

A 45-year-old woman died on Friday morning due to what her grieving husband said was torture in Rab custody in Bhairab, Kishoreganj.

A contractor firm tasked with the construction of Nabinagar-Shibpur-Radhika regional highway in Brahmanbaria has withdrawn the entire Tk 53 crore bill for the project without completing it.

The recent cold wave has led to a surge in diarrhoea and pneumonia cases across Brahmanbaria district.

When you visit Bijoynagar, you will be welcomed not with words but a bite into warm chitoi pitha, dipped in the rich and velvety Lali gur -- a delicacy that has graced these lands for decades.

A 50-year-old pond with an expanse of 72-decimal area is being filled up with truckloads of earth in Brahmanbaria’s Bijoynagar upazila, flouting rules.

There was a crowd in front of the Bhairab Upazila Health Complex, staring at a digital monitor yesterday.

At least 17 people were killed after a freight train ignored a signal light and rammed into a carriage of Egarosindhur Godhuli near Bhairab Bazar Junction Railway Station yesterday afternoon.

A project was passed for the financial year 2022-23 to build two new school buildings with the funding of the World Bank in Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria at a cost of Tk 1.36 crore.

Let’s start with why canals are excavated. Excavation project of a canal involves digging and removing soil and rock materials from the ground to create a trench or channel. The excavated soil is then used to form the embankments or sides of the canal. The purpose of this project is to create a waterway for transportation of goods, irrigation, and drainage.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on the Central African authorities to spare no effort in identifying the perpetrators who attacked the Bangladeshi peacekeepers and bring them to justice swiftly.

A government employee, who had travelled several times without tickets in different trains of Dhaka-Chattogram and Dhaka-Sylhet railway routes during his service, has made the payment of all fares recently, after his retirement.

Fifty-seven of the 79 level crossings on the 73km rail track in Brahmanbaria pose a serious risk of accidents as those are without any gatemen or arrangement for stopping the movement of vehicles and pedestrians during the passage of trains.

Several brick kilns, built near different educational institutions, have been operating in Brahmanbaria, defying law and denying the locals’ objections.

One year after the Hefajat mayhem in Brahmanbaria, investigation of any of 55 cases filed in connection with the incident is yet to be completed.

Farmers across Bangladesh are more inclined than ever to cultivate sunflowers as an alternative to traditional paddy crops that do not offer much profit.

In their forensic report, police found no evidence of Rasraj’s involvement in spreading a photograph that led to a mayhem in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar in October 2016.

Cultivation of Boro on about 5,500 hectares of land in the current season seems uncertain due to the filling up of an important canal for a development project in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria.

Abdul Hoque was among the several hundred drug traders from Brahmanbaria who had surrendered to police during an anti-narcotics crackdown in 2017.

Sometimes he introduced himself as an officer at the land office, sometimes as an officer in the deputy commissioner’s office and at other times as an influential person in a government office.

In many areas across the Brahmanbaria town, mosquitoes descend upon neighbourhoods every day after sunset. But these days, even during daytime, their numbers are so high that people are finding it hard to stay home.