Mintu Deshwara

Gita Rani Kanu, a steadfast advocate for tea workers’ rights, is emerging as a formidable candidate for the chairman position in the upcoming upazila elections scheduled for May 29 in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar.

The government pond close to a kitchen market at Robirbazar in Kulaura Upazila has served as a water source for the firefighters in the past let alone for other various household purpose.

Tea, the most popular and revered beverage in the world, has an over 150-year long heritage of cultivation and consumption in Bangladesh.

A groundwater treatment and supply project costing nearly Tk 10 crore in Habiganj has been non-operational for two years since completion, while residents of the municipality grapple with an acute water crisis amid the ongoing hot spell.

Beekeepers in Sylhet division are passing days amid worry of incurring losses as their bees are leaving colonies due to the ongoing hot spell prevailing across the country.

Muhibur Rahman of Noapara village under Ajmeriganj upazila of Habiganj cultivated Boro paddy on his eight acres of land this season with high hopes.

Saddam and Sunil, two youths, suffered critical injuries in a motorcycle accident in Rashidpur area of Habiganj’s Bahubal upazila recently.

The Juri river in Moulvibazar’s Juri upazila has transformed into a wasteland over the years due to negligence.

The vast low-lying depressions in the northeastern part of Bangladesh, called haors in Bangla, remain inundated for almost half the year centring the monsoons.

Sukon Basfor, 33, a Harijan woman, starts her day at the break of dawn. She works tirelessly for over four hours, from 5:00am to 9:30am every day, cleaning the streets from Puran Bazar to the Bus Stand area in Sreemangal.

Atop the Barlekha Upazila Agriculture Office in Moulvibazar sits a delicate rooftop garden, featuring a tapestry of flowers. A whopping 250 flower varieties are blooming on this roof.

The Baniachong Upazila Health Complex in Habiganj district serves as the lone government-run healthcare facility for around 3,50,000 residents of 15 unions under the upazila, including those from haor (wetlands) areas.

Owning to its worldwide popularity, farmers have taken up coffee cultivation in the hilly terrains of Moulvibazar Sadar’s Giasnagar union.

Years of reckless illegal encroachment and indiscriminate pollution have left Sakha Borak river in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj practically on deathbed.

To harness the untapped potential of ecotourism in the region, the Borshijora Ecopark was set up in 2006 across a vast expanse of natural reserve forest in Moulvibazar Sadar upazila.

Barlekha upazila in Moulvibazar is known for its agar and attar production, netting recognition not just in the country but also on the international stage. These two products are often referred to as the "white gold" of the upazila.

Thieves have been stealing valuable trees from Lathitila Reserve Forest in Juri upazila of Moulvibazar, right under the nose of the forest officials.

A language is quietly but surely becoming extinct in some villages at the tea estates of Moulvibazar, Habiganj, and Sylhet, along the Bangladesh-India border.

Kodalichhara Canal, which is considered as the lifeline of Moulvibazar town, usually carries the city’s drainage water into the Hail Haor (waterbody).

I first met Father Frank after he came to St Joseph's Church in Sreemangal as the new parish priest in 1994, dedicating his life and knowledge to the Punjee people for the next decade