Mintu Deshwara

Even though they had no disabilities at birth, two sisters, namely Supriya Sinha, 22, and Priyanti Sinha, 19, lost motor function in their hands when they were in school. Presently, they are living with their family in a rented house in Magura area of Moulvibazar’s Kulaura municipal town.

Winter is a difficult time for animals that reside in Moulvibazar’s Lawachara rain forest. As its streams run dry, quite rapidly, at the onset of the cold season, its diverse range of inhabitants don’t have an option but to look for water elsewhere.

About four thousand people -- inhabitants of Patna and Bagerkona villages in Moulvibazar’s Barlekha upazila -- have been cut off from the closest market and upazila headquarters for the past 18 months, as their lone road lies unusable following excavation of the Dhamai river.

Growers of different summer varieties of tomato, especially the one named Raja, are making more or less 200 percent profit this season in Sylhet region.

Both the international and domestic demand for Manipuri cloth, a style of handwoven fabric native to Sylhet that come in block, stripe and flat colour print, has recovered in line with the receding coronavirus pandemic.

The local tea industry was in hot water not long ago as various restrictions put in place all over the world amidst the ongoing coronavirus pandemic had led to a decrease in demand.

The Moulvibazar district administration yesterday launched a bus service to facilitate travel for both domestic and foreign tourists so as to encourage more people to visit the region.

Heavy rains followed by strong current in a creek between two hillocks -- in Satchhari National Park under Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj -- severely damaged a walk bridge and cut off at least 20 families of Tripura community from markets and localities since last week.

Farmers who cultivate cassava on fallow land in Sylhet division are in for a huge success this year with expectations of a bumper yield and good market prices.

Leading British architect-planner Graeme Shankland once said, “A country without a past has the emptiness of a barren continent, and a city without old buildings is like a man without a memory.”

The public library in Kulaura has remained abandoned for four years. Due to lack of preservation, it has now become a garbage dump and waterlogged. The collection of valuable books written by eminent authors has also been completely destroyed.

For the last 20 years, Chinami Madraji has been working at a tea garden in Moulvibazar. Rain or shine, the 35-year-old mother of five works for eight to 10 hours a day.

Honey cultivation has proved to be a profitable venture for many farmers, especially small-scale entrepreneurs, in Sylhet division and as a result, people are becoming increasingly interested in the practice.

Gibbons are one of the most critically endangered primates in Bangladesh. Though once a prominent species, their numbers have dwindled due to continued loss of habitat and hunting.

Locally grown green sweet orange, or malta, enhances immunity and has shown to be quite helpful for treating people with anemia.

Under a quizzical social forestry project undertaken right in the middle of a natural forestland in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila, the Forest Department is jeopardising age-old natural forestry as well as livelihoods of several hundred people living in the area for generations.

Long considered ominous creatures in our culture, vultures, in reality, play one of nature’s most crucial roles and keep the ecosystem in order.

When the government is observing National Fisheries Week countrywide, a section of unscrupulous fishers continues to catch native fish and aquatic lives erecting bamboo fences across the Laghata and Palak rivers in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar.

Farmers are enjoying tremendous success cultivating papaya in fallow lands in Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar district, thanks to bumper yield and a reasonable market price.

Shahbazpur Tea Garden in Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar district has recently introduced a new variety called honey tea.