Masuk Hridoy

A government stipend meant for the son of a rickshaw-van driver was allegedly deposited into the mobile financial account of a teacher’s husband for more than two years, an irregularity uncovered at a government primary school in Akhaura upazila of Brahmanbaria.

Irregularity at award-winning Akhaura primary school came to light after the student’s family said it had received no payments for over two years

In the remote Laur village, under Brahmanbaria’s Nabinagar upazila, Nazmin Akter has been waiting many months for a call from her husband, Kamrul Hasan, who left home for Russia in July last year in search of work but ended up in the Ukraine war.

Kamrul Hasan’s family says he went to Russia for work, was drawn into the war, and has not been heard from for months

Ongoing four-lane construction and weak traffic management are causing hours-long tailbacks between Ashuganj and Sarail Bishwa Road

Flash floods have inundated around 372 hectares of boro paddy fields in the haor regions of Brahmanbaria, affecting at least 1,000 farmers, with Nasirnagar upazila bearing the brunt of the damage.

Students of Fordabad Adarsha High School in Brahmanbaria have been deprived of their only playground for nearly two decades, as the field has been used as a timber market since 2004, allegedly with the approval of school authorities.

Schoolchildren face daily risks crossing the bridge