Over 100 farmers in Aditmari upazila are ringing an alarm as a local influential is digging a pond on around 22 bighas of land without prior approval of the authorities, which they think might make their cropland waterlogged.

Three children have fallen victims to mindless soil extraction from hills in Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.

Things were going alright for Jabbar Howladar but fate followed with less rewarding things as his both hands and legs had to be amputated due to gangrene infection.

Miscreants poisoned fish to death in a pond over previous enmity in Ghatail upazila of Tangail.

A clique has been allegedly earning a huge amount of money in the name of ‘raffle draw’ from the month-long fair organised by Ishwardi municipality.

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

Unplanned extraction of sand from Dudhkumar river in Kurigram’s Bhurungamari upazila posing serious threat to century-old Sonahat Bridge on the river.

A new shoal covering an area of ​​about 5,000 acres has sprung up in the deep Bay of Bengal, about 30-km south of Kuakata.

About 100-metre of Rabindra Kuthibari protection embankment on the Padma river in Kushtia has collapsed.

Over Tk 23 crore was spent only last year to excavate a 65-kilometre stretch of rivers and canals in five upazilas of Lalmonirhat. But most of the excavated earth, piled up on its side, has already made it back to the rivers and canals obstructing water flows.

Two friends in Jhenidah have joined hands extracting fibre from banana plants in Jhenidah Sadar upazila after being inspired by YouTube videos.

Vehicular movement on Tangail-Aricha regional highway came to a halt as a steel plate of the deck of a Bailey bridge, repaired just a few days ago, on a canal at Tengripara in Nagarpur upazila collapsed again yesterday.

Several thousand residents of Pashchim Baniary village under Matibhanga union in Pirojpur’s Nazirpur upazila have kept their communication alive by crossing the nearly dead Baleshwar river using a bamboo bridge that the villagers themselves first built over three decades ago.

Hundreds of people of eight to ten villages have been suffering immensely due to low approach road of a bridge over a canal at Gotampur village in Rajbari’s Pangsha upazila.

In the first week of January, I went to Narayanganj’s Araihazar upazila, where fish farmer Mokbul Mollah is doing ornamental fish, also known as colourful fish, farming.

Just a week after construction of the three-kilometre portion of an important road in Kishoreganj upazila the carpeting wore away, raising question about the quality of the work.

At least 25 out of 35 river routes in the Teesta river basin area under eight upazilas of Lalmonirhat and Kurigram have been closed due to a sharp decline in the water level during the ongoing dry season.

Nree Foundation, a voluntary organisation based in Sherpur, has been serving daily lunch to the unfed people since August last year to alleviate the impact of coronavirus pandemic. The programme titled “Food for the Hungry” has come as a respite for the destitute.

Carpeting got damaged of a paved road stretching from Bijaya of Joychandi union in Kulaura upazila to Kapnapahar Road of Juri upazila even before the completion of the work.

Cutting of topsoil from croplands is still going on unabatedly at different places in Tangail, leaving a harmful impact on fertility of land.