3,000 Phulbaria women turn hogla leaf crafts into source of income
Earn up to Tk 12,000 a month
18 September 2025, 06:37 AM
18 September 2025, 06:37 AM
Traffic chaos plagues Trishal
For over two decades, unchecked encroachment by roadside vendors and illegal three-wheeler stands has been causing severe traffic congestion at Darirampur Bus Stand on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Trishal upazila, leaving thousands of commuters to suffer daily.
13 September 2025, 21:25 PM
13 September 2025, 21:25 PM
150-year-old printing press left to decay
The remains of a printing press, believed to be around 150 years old, have been left abandoned for decades near Mrittunjoy School in Mymensingh.
28 August 2025, 22:21 PM
28 August 2025, 22:21 PM
Dhobaura–M’singh road in a sorry state
The 30-kilometre stretch from Mymensingh’s Dhobaura to Tarakanda has become almost unusable, causing immense suffering for thousands of people who travel on the road.
22 August 2025, 22:07 PM
22 August 2025, 22:07 PM
Mymensingh Hi-Tech Park construction stalls mid-way
The park, being built on seven acres of land in Mymensingh city, is expected to be a significant milestone in Bangladesh's ICT sector
28 July 2025, 11:21 AM
28 July 2025, 11:21 AM
Ethnic cultural academy: Tk 10.81cr facility lies unused since inauguration
The Ethnic Cultural Academy in Haluaghat upazila of Mymensingh has remained non-operational for the past six years since its inauguration.
5 July 2025, 23:46 PM
5 July 2025, 23:46 PM
Abdul Aziz: A silent pillar of the Language Movement
The days of the movement for mother language are a priceless treasure for 91-year-old Abdul Aziz, a retired school teacher.
21 February 2025, 04:49 AM
21 February 2025, 04:49 AM
Hoomguti Khela / A rural game that withstood the test of time
In Phulbaria upazila of Mymensingh, the shivering cold of winter couldn’t dampen the spirit of hundreds who gathered in Laxmipur to witness a spectacle of heritage.
16 January 2025, 18:00 PM
16 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Terry towel makers taking their products abroad
Terry towel makers at an industrial estate of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Kishoreganj have shrugged off the coronavirus-induced economic downturn as production has reached pre-pandemic levels amid growing orders from abroad.
13 December 2022, 04:00 AM
Mymensingh BSCIC: Businesses irked by rising costs of raw materials
Businesses at the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industry Corporation’s (BSCIC) industrial estate in Mymensingh are feeling the bite of higher raw material costs coupled with rampant load-shedding, according to various entrepreneurs.
7 November 2022, 02:40 AM
Land port in Mymensingh to operate in full swing soon
The Gubrakura-Karaitali land port in Haluaghat upazila of Mymensingh could go into full-fledged operation next month as the construction of all necessary infrastructure was completed last month, according to officials.
30 October 2022, 02:30 AM
Country’s first commercial crocodile farm eyes revival
The country’s first commercial crocodile venture, The Reptiles Farm Ltd, is now making efforts to bounce back from the pandemic-induced business slowdown, riding on the exports of crocodiles and skins.
14 October 2022, 02:10 AM
Small fish with big potential
The Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) has conserved and improved 37 domesticated varieties of freshwater fish over the past 30 years, bringing hopes that endangered breeds can be preserved to satisfy both local and global demand.
5 October 2022, 02:50 AM
Will their thirst be ever quenched?
There seems to be no let-up in the sufferings of the Hajong people for pure drinking water. The century-old suffering of the indigenous people living in Netrakona’s Kalmakanda upazila is yet to be mitigated despite umpteen pledges of the public representatives.
5 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Price hike of fish feed keeps farmers in trouble
The rising cost of fish feed has dealt a fresh blow to thousands of aquaculturists in Mymensingh who had only just started recovering from the coronavirus fallout as transportation and other facilities returned to normal after economic activities resumed.
5 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Boro on 700 hectares submerged
Hundreds of haor farmers in Sunamganj, Netrakona and Kishoreganj are left distraught after about 700 hectares of paddy fields became inundated in the last four days.
3 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Farmers turn to sunflowers for a decent profit
Farmers across Bangladesh are more inclined than ever to cultivate sunflowers as an alternative to traditional paddy crops that do not offer much profit.
7 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Feeding the unfed
Nree Foundation, a voluntary organisation based in Sherpur, has been serving daily lunch to the unfed people since August last year to alleviate the impact of coronavirus pandemic. The programme titled “Food for the Hungry” has come as a respite for the destitute.
7 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Brahmaputra dying a slow death
For the longest river in the country, the Brahmaputra is in quite the awful state. Years of rampant river grabbing and sand lifting has put its existence in such a crisis that even its tributaries are in danger today.
20 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Bringing animals back from the edge
Netrakona’s Durgapur upazila is home to a forest area that stretches across both sides of the border with India. Also known as Susang Durgapur, it plays host to a diversity of wild animals.
5 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Mymensingh stuck in gridlock
Long queues of cars, buses, rickshaws and motorbikes -- an inseparable image associated mostly with life in metros -- like Dhaka and Chattogram. However, traffic jam, these days, has become a regular phenomenon in the somewhat small divisional city of Mymensingh as well.
4 November 2021, 18:00 PM
An ancestral profession lives on
Some 200 families of Bade Majhira village in Muktagacha upazila of Mymensingh have been making a living by making fishing rods. This has been an ancestral profession of these families for around a century.
15 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Waterlogged for four months a year!
For around four months a year -- from June to September -- thousands of residents of Balashpur Madhyapara area in Mymensingh city have to sit through debilitating waterlogging.
8 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Mymensingh gears up for Durga Puja
For the past two years, Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bengali Hindu community, had lost its colours to the pandemic.
7 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Success story comes to a grinding halt
Before the pandemic hit, a group of women with disabilities were living a respectable life, working for a handloom workshop in Mymensingh’s Kanchijuly area.
23 September 2021, 18:00 PM
M’singh hospital overrun with patients
“No vacant beds available for Covid-19 patients at ICU and Covid wards” -- reads the sign hanging in front of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital’s (MMCH) emergency department.
6 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Rawhide traders in a bind
Menazul Islam, a seasonal rawhide trader from Matikata Mor area of Chilmari upazila in Kurigram, is in dire straits after taking a Tk 2 lakh loan for his business in hopes of turning a profit.
4 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Burial of Covid-19 Patients in Mymensingh: Women volunteers step up to the plate
The pandemic situation is dire in Mymensingh Even after Mymensingh Medical College Hospital increased the number of beds in its Covid-19 unit from 210 to 500, the hospital’s 20-bed ICU remains at capacity due to the onrush of critical patients.
28 July 2021, 18:00 PM