Mintu Deshwara

PRAN-RFL Group gives the highest importance to environmental issues apart from manufacturing quality products, creating largescale employment and contributing to socio-economic development through the setting up of factories and operations, said its director (marketing) yesterday.

The decades-old railway bridges on Akhaura-Sylhet route are in a poor condition as most of the wooden sleepers, banded clips, and nuts and bolts are damaged or missing.

The derailment of Upaban Express in Moulvibazar was caused likely by faulty lines or misaligned carriage wheels, say officials.

A vast tract of land is under threat of being flooded by the Monu river during this rainy season as its embankment in Moulvibazar

Habiganj town dwellers had to suffer following a three-hour downpour and subsequent waterlogging yesterday.

Unabated extraction of sand, using dredgers, from below the surface of agricultural land in different areas of Srimangal upazila for long is posing erosion threat to vast tracts of nearby agricultural land, dwellings and other establishments.

Tea Workers Day, a day commemorating massacre of tea workers 98 years ago, will be observed today in a befitting manner.

About 20 lakh people live in Moulvibazar. But a large part of the population is outside the coverage of family planning as the district family planning office and union health and family welfare centres have been running with shortage of manpower, serious medicine crisis and inadequate infrastructure.

Only three months after completion of renovation work, the two-kilometre-long road stretching from Kadamtola Bazar to Tanmeuhari village in Sunamganj’s Dharmapasha upazila developed several cracks at different places.

The rainfall and low temperature in the last few days came as a boon for the tea gardens in Sylhet Division as the favourable weather

In death, religious harmony is found alive at the cemetery in Patrokhola Tea Garden in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila.

In 2017, the shock was overwhelming for Chan Mia -- he lost all the Boro paddy grown on seven acres of land to flash floods. The next year, the paddy he cultivated on three acres was damaged. This time it was pest attack.

The three-day long Jatiya Nazrul Sammelan ended recently at the Moulvibazar Government High School auditorium. The conference was jointly organised by Moulvibazar District Administration and the Nazrul Institute.

Protik Theatre also honoured numerous people for their notable contributions to the society.

Farmers were harvesting boro paddy days before those could ripen in Hakaluki Haor in Moulvibazar after rain accompanied by hailstorm damaged crops on vast tracts in the last few days.

Wild monkeys, entering localities in search of food, are creating nuisance in 15 villages of Juri upazila in Moulvibazar.

The government's initiative of providing indigenous children with free textbooks, printed in their mother languages, faces a setback in Sylhet division due to a shortage of teachers trained to teach in those languages.

Compared to last year's count, the number of migratory birds has more than doubled this year at Baikka Beel -- a bird sanctuary spread over 1,000 hectares of area in Hail Haor of Moulvibazar's Srimangal upazila.

Agricultural production and ecological balance are under threat in Moulvibazar as influential brickfield owners are forcing landowners to sell topsoil, the raw material for bricks.

Migratory birds usually start flocking in Hakaluki Haor, the largest water body in the country, and delight visitors with their chirping and fluttering this time every year.