Coffee cultivation gaining popularity among tea gardeners
Tea gardeners in Moulvibazar have seen a new business prospect in the market of coffee and started leaning towards coffee cultivation.
6 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Bengal loach returns to Hakaluki Haor after nearly a decade
Exactly when the world went into a complete standstill due to the coronavirus outbreak, it was also time for Bengal loach or Rani fish to breed. Good weather and total absence of people from the haors due to a shutdown resulted in their return.
30 August 2020, 15:35 PM
Sunamganj sees 930km of its roads devastated
Communications on roads in Sunamganj have become extremely difficult after three back-to-back floods destroyed about 930 kilometres of roads in the district.
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Mangetout was always a winter harvest. Now it can be grown all year round
A mangetout seed invented by a team of researchers of Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) has opened new opportunities for farmers to grow the winter crop round the year.
25 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Wild geese find safe haven for breeding, nesting at Baikka Beel
In the vast expanse of Moulvibazar’s Baikka Beel, there are wooden boxes painstakingly set up some distance apart from each other.
25 August 2020, 15:51 PM
A curious list for old-age allowance
Forty-three-year-old Khairun Begum, a resident of Hajipur union in Moulvibazar, has been getting old-age allowance over the last few years.
20 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Bumper Aus yield expected in Moulvibazar
Farmers are expecting a bumper harvest of Aus paddy this season, for the first time in Moulvibazar in ten years.
15 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Silica sand quarries: Illegal lifting unstoppable
Illegal silica sand lifting at various quarries in Moulvibazar continues unabated while the Bureau of Mineral Development is yet to conduct an environmental impact assessment of the extraction zones despite a High Court order two years ago.
9 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Moulvibazar lemon growers having good time amid pandemic
It has been a good time for lemon farmers as they are getting fair prices of the fruit amid the pandemic. The growers in Sreemangal upazila are largely dependent on lemon farming.
9 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Even educated farmers are not spared
Summer fruits like watermelon sell very well during normal times, when sweeter and vibrant coloured fruit varieties usually sell better. But this year’s summer is like no other.
8 August 2020, 18:00 PM
How 90 indigenous villages in Sylhet region keep coronavirus at bay
No Covid-19 patients have been found so far in 90 punjis (villages) in Sylhet, with each completely isolating itself from outsiders and following strict hygiene protocols.
8 August 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Railway’ syndicate makes money, govt loses revenue
More than a hundred abandoned railway staff quarters have been quietly and illegally rented out in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura Junction Railway Station allegedly by a syndicate of insiders within the railways, including a senior assistant engineer and a union leader.
2 August 2020, 09:48 AM
Archaeologists find Moulvibazar man who discovered copperplate mentioning ancient university
Archaeologists have found the man who had discovered a copperplate mentioning a millennium-old higher-learning centre in Rajnagar upazila of Moulvibazar.
28 July 2020, 09:46 AM
Alarming rise of cattle theft ahead of Eid
Sharif Mia has been rearing his three cows worth Tk 1.50 lakh for the last two years to sell at the haat ahead of this Eid-ul-Azha, a festival marked
26 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Archaeological team visits Moulvibazar, collects antiquities
A five-member team of the archaeology department has visited the land of long-lost heritage located in Kalimabad area of Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila -- once known as Chandrapur -- which now lies beneath the ground.
26 July 2020, 07:53 AM
Hill plunderers threaten habitations, ecology in Juri
When nature all around the world, including in Bangladesh, is showing signs of rejuvenation amid restricted movement of humans, hillocks in Moulvibazar’s Juri upazila do not seem to catch a break.
16 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Thousands suffer as road condition awful
Thousands of commuters are badly suffering due to the awful condition of two important roads under the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.
13 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Most corona patients recover from home
Most coronavirus patients in the district have successfully recovered from the disease after basic treatment at home.
4 July 2020, 18:00 PM
OMS List Anomaly: As weird as it gets
Sunuj Ullah, Eshrak Mia, and Jamal Mia are the husbands of Mohesh Sarkar, Subol Sarkar and Kali Kanto Sarkar, respectively -- at least that’s what a list of beneficiaries for a government food programme shows.
2 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 Fallout: Srimangal pineapples going unsold
Unsold stock of country’s favourite Srimangal pineapple continues to grow larger at wholesale warehouses in Moulvibazar’s Srimangal upazila town.
30 June 2020, 18:00 PM