Mostafa Shabuj

Ansar Ali became one of the first to commercially produce avocados in the country in 2006, opening up a brand new avenue of income for farmers around the country.

One is an 85-year-old paralysed man who cannot move out of his bed by himself. Another left the country for Malaysia in February and is still there. Two others are hajj pilgrims -- one of them returned home just yesterday while the other is still to come back.

The front porch of an old Zamindar house in Demajzni Bazar area of Bogra's Shajahanpur upazila boasts of being home to a centuries-old Mahogany tree. That Mahogany tree, for years, has been housing the ever popular rose-ringed parakeet.

The stork has symbolic significance in many regions. The Greek etymology behind the word stork means mother-love, while according to a German fairy-tale the stork is “mother-bird”. Colonists of North America considered it a symbol of love and welcoming and in Chinese wisdom, the bird symbolises longevity and old age.

When life knocks you down, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and try again. It is a lesson Bogra town's ATM Faysal Hasan learnt after his graduation with a master's in Bangla. Twice he appeared for a viva-voce exam for the public service. Twice, he claims, he was confronted by brokers wanting a bribe. Dreams defeated, Faysal turned to his hobby—pigeon rearing. He could not guess how successful he would be.

On 30 January 1995, a cold winter morning in Bogra, twin babies were born in a private clinic. One of them was still born and the other was in critical condition. The doctor on duty asked the family to pray for the fledgling life and even though most of the family members lost hope as the hours passed, her father Jamil Akhtar did not lose his faith.

Parents of a schoolboy, who died after an appendectomy, alleged that negligence of clinic authorities caused his death. The accusation was also echoed by the doctor who had conducted the surgery.

A stretch of almost 16 kilometres of Gobindaganj-Palashbari road is accident-prone where the district police have set up several signboards bearing words of warning in vain.

The Korotoa river in Bogra is nearly choking as the waters run low and pollutants are pumped in from the municipality sewerage and local industries.

The society frowns upon the way they want to live their lives. But it is a truth they cannot hide. Nor can they put up with the continuous shaming they have to undergo day in and day out.

Rangpur Sugar Mills authorities in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha are selling fish of seven ponds cultivated by the Santals evicted from Sahebganj-Bagda farmland in November 2016.

Participants at a public hearing in the town yesterday urged taking effective measures to save Korotoa, Bangali and Nagar rivers from

On the Jamuna river shoals (char landmass emerging from riverbed) in Bogra's Sariakandi upazila, all too often school isn't as