Masuk Hridoy

Sohel Rana used to make a living as a rickshaw-puller in Dhaka city. The youth from Natore was married and had two children, with the family living with him in in the city.

With numerous potholes and cracks, the two-km-long road from Ghukarna to Chandalkhil area of Brahmanbaria town remains virtually off-limits to vehicles, thanks to the negligence of the authorities of the ‘A’ category municipality.

He introduces himself in different ways in line with the different posts he holds.

Brahmanbaria Chamber of Commerce and Industry is constructing a six-storey building on a leased land at Kumarshil Moar of Brahmanbaria town, allegedly in violation of the lease contact.

Some local influential people are running at least 10 illegal landing stations just beside two rail bridges and a highway bridge over the Meghna at Ashuganj in the district while a syndicate of illegal sand traders have set pipelines by cutting roads in the area.

October 9, 2019. Anwarpur village, Akhaura. The two correspondents went to the house of Abu Rayhan, near Hirapur High School, posing as Phensedyl users.

At a time when the government is conducting drives against river encroachment, an influential sand trader is not only constricting flow of the Titas river in Banchharampur upazila by occupying its bank, but also endangering Sheikh Hasina Titas Setu over the river.

It’s a house right on the zero line. Transnational syndicates have turned its kitchen into a storeroom of smuggled motorcycles. They also use it for assembling bikes, bringing in parts like tanks, wheels, headlights and seats from across the border.

A mass graveyard of 250 martyrs of the Liberation War at Bangladesh-Tripura border is now covered with jungle, making it hardly distinguishable from surroundings.

Four days have passed since the gruesome accident on early Tuesday in Brahmanbaria; brothers -- Nurul Islam and Badal Mia -- still remain missing.

It was around 3:00am yesterday. A Chattogram-bound train from Sylhet -- Udayan Express -- was changing its track to allow Dhaka-bound train Turna Nishita Express from Chattogram to pass byMandobagh Railway Station in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba.

The train accident in Brahmanbaria yesterday left at least 16 dead and shattered the lives of many.

Even three years after arson attacks and vandalism on the homes and temples of Hindus in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar upazila, those responsible are still to face any punishment as the investigations of most of the cases are yet to be complete.

A Feni court yesterday handed down death sentence to all the 16 accused, including a sacked madrasa principal and two expelled local Awami League leaders, over the murder of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi in April, an incident that had shocked the entire nation.

Headteacher posts in Brahmanbaria’s 159 government primary schools lied vacant for years, some for as long as four years.

A former union parishad chairman in Brahmanbaria died on November 2 last year, but documents placed before a district court show he “gave statement” to a police officer as a witness in a murder case nearly three months after his death.

Once known as a ‘town of ponds’, Brahmanbaria now hardly retained only one-fourth of its 200 natural water bodies.

Waterlogging has become a common phenomenon in monsoon at a number of neighbourhoods in Brahmanbaria.

The motorboat used by traffickers for the journey by sea from the coast of Libya to Europe was barely capable of carrying 35 people. Yet, 75 people, including the 64 Bangladeshis, were crammed on board.

The Kaikyachara Bridge that connects Bijoynagar and Madhabpur upazilas has remained severely damaged for months now, causing distress to locals and hampering the movement of traffic.