Bone-chilling cold and thick fog hit the poor tea workers hard in Sylhet division as hundreds, mostly children and elderly, have been suffering from different cold-related diseases due to the cold spell for the last few days.

A female schoolteacher and four of her family members sustained injuries in an attack allegedly by the men of a local Awami League (AL) leader in Sonargaon upazila on Saturday night.

A source of light, Chanbaru Memorial Library has now become a centre of learning for students and teachers as well as for other villagers.

The current cold wave that has been sweeping through the country’s northern region may continue for the next few days.

Non-agricultural use of land especially for the development purpose has recently seen a sharp increase in Sylhet division. By filling croplands, houses, roads, buildings and business establishments are being built in an unplanned manner.

About five lakh people in two upazilas are suffering as a bridge, connecting Nilphamari Sadar and Kishoreganj upazila, over the Charalkatha river at Par Ghat area has remained incomplete for nearly five years.

Anwar Hossain has been trapping and killing rats since he was 16.

Cultivation of Boro on about 4,000 hectares of land in the current season seems uncertain due to permanent waterlogging along the Bhabadaha region in Jashore’s Monirampur upazila.

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) in Pirojpur has hanged signboards on both two sides of each iron bridge on Charkhali-Mathbaria road in the district saying that it is risky.

At one stage of life, she did not have money to pay the tuition fees for her college exams following marriage.

Police yesterday arrested two youths in connection with the gang-rape of a fifth-grader in Dimla upazila on Monday night.

Amid the alarming rise in the number of Covid-19 cases, the triannual council of Bhangura upazila Awami League (AL) was held yesterday, defying the government directive on avoiding large gathering.

Police yesterday recovered the body of a helper of a goods-laden truck from India at Benapole Port.

Police have found that Mohammad Shah Ali, the brother of Ataullah Abu Amar Jununi, commander of Myanmar’s banned militant organisation Arakan Rohingya Solidarity Army (Arsa), bears a Bangladeshi national identity card.

A newly constructed bridge over a canal in Lama upazila has remained unfit for vehicular movements for over a year due to lack of approach roads on either side of the structure.

A huge amount of cow dung is being used as fuel especially for cooking purposes in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram districts, thanks to lack of awareness and government move to motivate people to utilise it as manure.

Siddique Hossain’s success did not come overnight. The young man from Tikuria Chala village in Sakhipur upazila has given his all-out effort to achieve it.

The Department of Archeology has resumed excavating renowned Islamic preacher Khanjahan Ali’s residence, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The excavation will delve deep into the layout of the land, architectural style and chronological order.

People of Kadamtala union in Pirojpur Sadar upazila are passing days amid panic, fearing police arrest.

Madhaikhal beel, which lies on 157 acres of land in Kurigram’s Nageshwari upazila, was the main source of income for more than four hundred fishermen families.