Masuk Hridoy

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.

A flowing canal ran through the town of Brahmanbaria once. Now what is left of the 3.5-km-long canal is a mere stream. At places, it looks as though it is a long stretch of barren land.

Boro cultivation on 4,000 bighas of land in six villages of Nasirnagar upazila has been facing a serious setback this year due to insufficient flow of water in the dried up Chikondiya river.

Two suspected women militants surrender two days after law enforcers cordoned off a seven-storey building in Gangpar area of Madhabdi upazila in Narsingdi.

It was raining around 12:30pm yesterday. Despite this, a group of workers, equipped with shovels and rakes, was trying to level freshly laid asphalt on TA Road near Ghorapatty intersection in Brahmanbaria town. Next to them two road rollers were moving in different directions to compact the surface.

It was an unusual but lucrative offer for Selim Mia, a rickshaw-puller in Brahmanbaria's Chhoto Kuripaika village.

All SSC examinees were in the exam centre by then. They were about to start one of the important public examinations of their life.

If informed about a child marriage, a union parishad chairman, like any other local government representative, becomes legally obliged to step in to stop the social evil.

The once hustle and bustle of the traditional handlooms at Bancharampurupazila of Brahmanbaria is now a thing of the past.

One year has passed since the attack on houses and temples of Hindu people at Nasirnagar upazila in Brahmanbaria but police could not complete investigations and submit the charge sheet into the incident yet.

The dilapidated Comilla-Sylhet highway, an important road for trade between Bangladesh and India through Akhaura land port, has turned hazardous for motor vehicles.

For up to three thousand schoolchildren in Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar upazila, dilapidated school buildings are a usual hazard.

The sound of flutes tuning and playing is nothing new to Sreemoddi village in Comilla's Homna upazila. Over a century ago two expert flute craftsmen, Kokil Das Bairagi and Deen Bandhu, reached the village from India to ply their trade. Locals say they made up to a