Mirza Shakil

Tensions have been brewing between members of the Garo communityand foresters over pieces of land in the Amtali forest of Tangail’s Madhupur upazila.

Tangail sari weavers and traders are disappointed ahead of Eid-ul-Azha this year as the people’s decreasing purchasing power coupled with the ongoing flood situation in different parts of the country has led to poor sales, according to market players.

Although pineapple yields in Madhupur upazila of Tangail have been good this year, growers have been left frustrated by a 40 to 50 per cent drop in prices for the highly popular fruit, according to local farmers and agriculture officials.

When the pandemic hit and in-person classes at universities were suspended, Shakil Ahmed, then a final-year student of agriculture department at Noakhali Science and Technology University, had returned home.

A range of red hillocks -- it’s not only a great sight, surrounded by luscious Sal forests, but is also crucial in conserving the biodiversity of the midlands of Tangail and Gazipur.

Red sandalwood or blood sandalwood tree, which recently came to limelight due to popular Indian Telegu cinema “Puspa: The Rise”, has been found in Madhupur forest of Tangail.

After a two-year-long wait owing to the pandemic, Tangail sari weavers have finally been able to dust off their looms.

Eid holidaymakers heading for northern districts might get caught in gridlocks on both sides of the Bangabandhu bridge due to the expansion work on a 25km stretch of the Elenga-Rangpur highway.

Once upon a time, the turbulent Bangshi river used to be one of the important rivers in central Bangladesh. However, the river is rapidly losing all its might and glory due to the filling up of its banks, mindless pollution and illegal grabbing.

The Forest Department is set to excavate an artificial lake at Amtali in Madhupur National Park to attract tourists, despite objections from the local ethnic minorities who fear this would damage their livelihoods and culture.

The ever popular peanut has maintained a steady uptick in consumption for many years now, turning it into a major cash crop for local growers, especially those in char areas along Jamuna River in Tangail.

upazila has been in a dilapidated condition for long due to lack of care and maintenance.

An ongoing fair in Tangail to display products of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) has been far from being able to draw buyers and visitors as per expectations, frustrating participants.

In a chilly winter morning, a teenage girl was busy serving customers with tea at a roadside stall in Tangail Sadar upazila’s Khudirampur area.

The land surrounding the water tank behind the Tangail Circuit House was turned into a killing field by the Pakistani occupation forces during the Liberation War in 1971.

After repeated revision of deadlines and costs, the long-awaited Joydevpur-Elenga Highway project is finally nearing completion and even at a slightly lower expenditure.

While rain can be a blessing in providing life-sustaining water, recent showers have turned into the bane of many brick manufacturers’ lives for their use of traditional kilns.

Within three decades, the once solitary and neat Tangail district town has almost turned into a concrete jungle within, with its waterbodies disappearing one after another. This has proved detrimental, to say the least, to the town’s environment and the health of its residents.

Once vigorous and ever-flowing, Tangail’s Louhajang river, is almost dead today. Owing to the construction of a sluice gate, siltation and lack of water, the river has almost lost all its natural flow and navigability.

Once aptly named for its beauty, the Sundari canal at Karatia in Tangail Sadar upazila has now lost its beauty, after bearing witness to mindless pollution and widespread encroachment.