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Paving road inside forest draws flak

7 March 2026, 06:38 AM
The Roads and Highways Department has taken an initiative to pave an old brick road running through the Harargaj Reserved Forest on the border of Kulaura and Juri upazilas in Moulvibazar.
7 March 2026, 06:38 AM
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Dhaka-Sylhet Highway: Land acquisition delays threaten project timeline

6 March 2026, 02:40 AM
Many local landowners feel they are not being compensated fairly
6 March 2026, 02:40 AM
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A promise to call, and a coffin yet to come

2 March 2026, 21:47 PM
Missile strike in the UAE claims life of Bangladeshi driver; grieving family awaits repatriation
2 March 2026, 21:47 PM
Photo: Mintu Deshwara

'Service, Not Profit': Young men bring relief to Ramadan shoppers in Moulvibazar

2 March 2026, 15:34 PM
Eight local entrepreneurs are selling essentials at cost, helping families cope with soaring prices
2 March 2026, 15:34 PM
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Brinda’s fight to save a fading script

22 February 2026, 05:45 AM
On  Friday mornings, the otherwise quiet veranda of a house in Haktiarkhola village under Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar turns into a classroom.
22 February 2026, 05:45 AM
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On a village veranda, one woman fights to save a fading script

21 February 2026, 12:25 PM
Retired teacher turns her balcony into a classroom to revive Meitei Mayek
21 February 2026, 12:25 PM
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The last speaker of Saura

21 February 2026, 00:01 AM
When this correspondent visited Saura Palli in Rajghat Union on Monday, the frail elder whispered only a few words in his native tongue: “If I die, the language will die. Please take initiative to save my mother tongue before I die. My identity lives in this language.”
21 February 2026, 00:01 AM
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Unread and untaught / Indigenous-language books reach Sylhet classrooms, but teacher shortage stalls learning

21 February 2026, 03:57 AM
In classrooms across Sylhet, mother-tongue textbooks for indigenous children are meant to be opened, spoken aloud and lived through. Too often, they remain closed and unused.
21 February 2026, 03:57 AM
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No protective clothing for tea workers

Tea garden workers in Sylhet are exposed to serious health hazards as they are not given protective clothing while spraying pesticides on the fields.
27 April 2018, 18:00 PM
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Bipasha finally gets a family of her own

Bipasha Akter, who was found abandoned by law enforcers from a village in Sunamganj just at the age of ten, is finally going to have a family of her own as today she is getting married.
27 April 2018, 08:24 AM
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Unabated dumping of industrial wastes

The water of the Sutang river in Habiganj has turned pitch black due to unabated dumping of wastes from nearby industrial units for the last few years.
21 April 2018, 18:00 PM
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Father linked to Beauty killing

The probe into the rape and murder of Beauty Akhter took a dramatic turn as the Habiganj police chief yesterday said key accused Babul Mia was not the killer. Instead, her father Sayed Ali, uncle Moyna Mia and a hired killer were involved in the murder.
7 April 2018, 18:00 PM
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Beauty Murder: Police arrest key suspect

Law enforcers yesterday arrested the main accused in the case over Beauty Akhter's rape and murder in Habiganj.
31 March 2018, 18:00 PM
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Nature Quest: Elongated tortoise, shrinking habitat

The elongated tortoise is a species of tortoise once found in different areas of the country including Sylhet.
29 March 2018, 18:00 PM
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Sylhet tea workers at high risk

The tea workers in Sylhet region are at high risk of tuberculosis (TB) due to unhygienic living, malnutrition and lack of awareness.
22 March 2018, 18:00 PM
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Unprotected Lawacherra

Lawacherra forest in Kamalganj upazila under the district remains highly vulnerable as tree looting goes on unabated in absence of
20 March 2018, 18:00 PM
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Duck farming now a saviour for many haor women

Many women in haor areas of Sunamganj have found alternative source of income in duck rearing after losing their crops to last year's
8 March 2018, 18:00 PM
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Bumper Harvest: Wholesale price of tomatoes drops to Tk 1 a kg

A bumper harvest of tomatoes had cause the wholesale prices in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj to plummet to as low as Tk 1 per kg from Tk 45 in December last year.
21 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Languages, cultures at stake

Small indigenous groups living in tea gardens of Sylhet division are gradually losing their own languages and cultures as the hard-
19 February 2018, 18:00 PM
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Winter birds' arrival decreases

Hakaluki Haor, the largest marshy wetland area in the country, is now lively with the chirping and fluttering of flocks of migratory
12 February 2018, 18:00 PM
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Haor dev office lying idle for year

The regional office of the Directorate of Haor and Wetland Development at Shologhar in Sunamganj town has hardly seen any work
6 February 2018, 18:00 PM
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Fertility in peril as topsoil sold to brick kilns

A vast tract of cultivable land around Hakaluki Haor area is losing its fertility day by day as farmers are lured into selling the topsoil to brick kilns in four upazilas of the district.
22 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Still there, poisoning the Surma

In the middle of 2016, a two-story building on the east side of the Surma river, near the Kazirbazar bridge in Sylhet city, was
21 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Nature Quest: Bamboo trinket snake found in Lawachhara

A black-banded trinket, a species of rat snakes, was found near Lawacherra National Forest in Moulvibazar. A stunningly beautiful creature, this was the first time it was discovered alive in the country.
18 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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School kids at risk as stone lifting continues

Even after Wednesday's accident that killed a worker and injured another, stone extraction has continued at a quarry in Kalairag area
15 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Brick kilns pose threat to Hakaluki ecology

Operation of brick kilns in the Ecologically Critical Area (ECA) of Hakaluki Haor badly affects environment and
13 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Endangered vulture gets new life

The rescue of a white-rumped vulture from Sreemangal of Moulvibazar once again turned the spotlight on the majestic but endangered creature.
11 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Cracks in FF's sculpture

The sculpture of a martyred freedom fighter, built two years ago in Dakkhin Sunamganj upazila, has developed cracks in the last eight
26 December 2017, 18:00 PM

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