Music with a mission
With this month’s flood ravaging communities, sweeping away homes and leaving people and livestock amid acute shortage of food and drinking water, a grim scenario now prevails across Moulvibazar.
28 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Together, they work tirelessly to repair a dyke
A breach in the Manu River embankment in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila has led to widespread flooding, submerging over 35 villages and causing significant damage to crop fields, houses, and roads.
27 August 2024, 18:00 PM
No parent should bear this loss
Says mother of Mostak, 24, who was fatally shot
16 August 2024, 18:22 PM
Nabiganj’s vanishing hills
Unabated hill cutting by unscrupulous syndicates has become a serious concern in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj.
15 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Services at a standstill as most UP chairmen flee
Most union parishad chairmen in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila, who are also Awami League leaders, have gone into hiding following the fall of Sheikh Hasina due to a mass upsurge.
12 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Potholes all along
A seven-kilometre stretch of road from Sadpasha in Prithimpasha union to Muroichhara in Karmadha union in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila has long been in a dilapidated state.
11 August 2024, 18:00 PM
School reopening: Students stay away from schools in Sylhet
Educational institutions across Sylhet division reopened on Tuesday following a government directive. However, many schools reported near-zero student attendance.
9 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Fewer shops open as curfew lifted
Even after curfew was lifted from 6:00am yesterday, very few shops and businesses opened in Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Sunamganj and Sylhet district towns following a prolonged period of unrest and uncertainty.
6 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Boat prices rise amid flood
With flood still inundating vast expanse of land across the Sylhet division, including the haor (wetland) areas in Habiganj, boats have become an indispensable mode of communication as well as livelihood for the affected people.
5 August 2024, 18:00 PM
23 Tripura Families: Landslide threat looms large over them
The indigenous Tripura community has lived for generations in the Satchhari National Park of Chunarughat upazila, Habiganj.
2 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Sylhet Flood: 66,584 houses damaged in three districts
As their house was damaged in the ongoing flood, Aftab Uddin’s family has been living in Bara Maidan High School shelter for 23 days at Talimpur union in Barlekha upazila, Moulvibazar.
2 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Wastes being dumped near reserve forest
For the past several years, local residents have been dumping household wastes in the open on Olipur-Shahjibazar road in Brahmandura union under Shayestaganj upazila of Habiganj.
1 August 2024, 18:00 PM
Soaring veggie prices leave people in a pickle
Prices of vegetables have surged sharply over the past one week in markets across Moulvibazar due to a shortage of vehicles for transporting the produce amid the ongoing nationwide curfew, as well as potential price manipulation by traders.
28 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Academic activities suspended at 665 schools
Academic activities of at least 665 educational institutions have been suspended for the last 12 days across Sylhet division due to flooding.
15 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Under water for three weeks and counting
The houses are barely standing on bamboo poles with fences broken, other parts dilapidated, and foundation submerged under water.
2 July 2024, 18:00 PM
Waterlogged Kulaura Health Complex: Walkway brings relief to patients, visitors
Persistent rain in Kulaura of Moulvibazar district has left the upazila health complex severely flooded over the past 15 days.
28 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Century-old school at landslide risk
The KB Ehia Government Primary School in Juri upazila of Moulvibazar is at risk of a landslide happening at any moment from a neighbouring hillock amid monsoon.
27 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Sylhet Flood leaves wildlife in peril
The ongoing flood across the Sylhet division has left wildlife in the region in peril.
25 June 2024, 18:00 PM
The living ‘dead’
Md Enamul Haque, a living and breathing individual, has recently discovered a shocking truth.
24 June 2024, 18:00 PM
Picking up the pieces
With water levels receding, hundreds of people in Sylhet are returning to their homes from shelter centres. Many have begun rebuilding their damaged houses.
23 June 2024, 18:00 PM