Mintu Deshwara

Defying laws intended to conserve the nature and forests in the country, different organisations affiliated with the government continue to destroy natural topography in the name of various development projects across the country.

Six years has passed since the government built the hospital, but it is yet to serve any patient as the authorities have still not sanctioned the necessary workforce to get the facility up and running.

For the first time ever, a day-long Fagua festival was held in the remote Sreemangal upazila headquarters, about 42 kilometres from Moulvibazar district town.

Indiscriminate earth lifting threatens a locally important bridge over the Fanai River in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.

Md Zaker from Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar grew up in a family with never-ending financial crisis.

The Wildlife Rescue Centre of Lawachhara National Park in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila hardly serves any purpose as the arrangement meant for the treatment of injured and sick wild animals is running without skilled manpower and treatment facilities for years.

A railway bridge and a road bridge over the Barachhara canal in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar faces risk due to large scale extraction of silica sand within half a kilometre of the important structures.

'In Loving Memory of My Husband', wrote British citizen JCG on one of the five nameless gravestones at the Dunstone Cemetery, located 16 kilometers from Sreemangal, Moulvibazar.

Just a couple of days ahead of Language Martyrs’ Day on February 21, the central Shaheed Minar of Kulaura upazila under Moulvibazar lies in an awful condition.

Mindless extraction of silica sand in Mirzapur area under Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar poses threat to environment and ecology.

It was hard for any ordinary farmer to see the prospect of an uncommon vegetable in haor region where cultivation of any crops other than paddy is somewhat unlikely.

Alam Ahmed had left for Oman barely six months ago, after borrowing around Tk 5 lakh from relatives and a local NGO.

The effluent from several industries in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj is polluting local canals and rivers, threatening fish population and adversely affecting people’s lives in the area.

Defying an order by the Department of Environment (DoE), a pond is being filled up illegally to make way for a two-storey building in Sreemangal upazila headquarters.

Hardly two months after recovery from illegal occupiers, a large area of Bangladesh Railway’s (BR) land near Sreemangal station in Moulvibazar is again under the grabbers’ possession.

The ongoing severe cold coupled with dense fog affects Boro seedbeds, turning the tender saplings yellowish at places, especially in Haor areas of Sylhet division.

Illegal tree felling poses threat to the forest on a government-owned khas land in Paschim Singur area of Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila.

While many rivers in the country are dying slowly due to encroachment, several others, such as the Ratna and Shutki in Baniachong upazila of Habiganj, are facing a different predicament -- being robbed of all their aquatic life.

Cultural organisation Surer Vela in Moulvibazar hosted a solo musical soiree titled, An Evening of Rabindra Sangeet, at M Saifur Rahman Auditorium, Moulvibazar, recently. The evening featured performances by eminent Tagore singer Shreya Guhathakurta from India and renowned singer Nurul Islam.

Among eight squirrel species in the world, Malayan, the world’s largest squirrel, is found in Rema-Kalenga forest of Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila.