Mintu Deshwara

Sellers slip into the shadows as mobile courts raid markets, but demand and trapping continue

Celebrates new year with colourful ‘Seng Kut Snem’ festival

Health services at the Rajnagar Upazila Health Complex in Moulvibazar are being disrupted due to a prolonged shortage of doctors and other staff.

Activists call for end to encroachment, pollution and stronger enforcement of laws

Says everything built over the years was gone in a single day; villagers say 'intentional'

Our stomachs often remain empty—not because we do not work hard, but because life is unfair

As the full moon of Agrahayan rises, the Manipuri community in greater Sylhet prepares to celebrate its most cherished festival -- Maharas Leela, or Ras Utsab.

Thousands gathered Kamalganj to celebrate the age-old festival

Broker syndicates and theft gangs have been operating at Habiganj 250-bed District Sadar Hospital for years, leaving patients and their attendants in constant fear and distress.

Festival will be celebrated on November 5, coinciding with Ras Purnima

Both traders and residents suffer as key road turns impassable

From lost lovers to nameless children, it stands as a serene chronicle of life and death

New variety promise higher yields, better prices, and health benefits

The Manu River in Moulvibazar, once a lifeline for local agriculture, fisheries, and navigation, is losing its natural water flow and navigability due to siltation.

‘I felt like I had stepped into a green paradise,’ says a visitor at Moulvibazar orchard

Under the cover of darkness every night, valuable silica sand is being illegally extracted by a syndicate from streams within tea gardens in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj.

Every Thursday, tea garden workers and traders keep a timeless tradition alive

Critically ill patients in Habiganj are being forced to pay high fares to private ambulance operators for emergency transfers to Sylhet or Dhaka, while two government ambulances meant to serve them sit idle and in disrepair.

A 45-metre bridge over a stream connecting the Teliapara-Shahpur road in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj has remained incomplete for three years after the construction deadline expired in November 2022.

Unabated illegal sand extraction from the Manu river in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila has put the Kotarkona Bridge and the newly constructed Rajapur Bridge along the Kulaura-Prithimpasha-Hazipur-Sharifpur road at risk.