Land-grabbing, illegal sand-mining, and the iron grip over Sunamganj’s wetlands — these are just a few of the dark allegations that people whisper about former Awami League MP Mouazzam Hossain Ratan.
As the sky darkens and the familiar rumble of thunder echoes across the horizon, farmers and fishermen working in open fields and water bodies sense the imminent danger of lightning. In Bangladesh, lightning is one of the deadliest natural disasters, claiming hundreds of lives each year.
The tourism sector of Bangladesh has been hit hard by the 2024 national elections, unfavourable weather, recurring floods and anti-discrimination movement in the current year compared to last year, as people are unwilling to travel for fear of violence.
With water levels receding, hundreds of people in Sylhet are returning to their homes from shelter centres. Many have begun rebuilding their damaged houses.
As soon as the second wave of flash floods hit Sylhet in the early hours of June 17, Moklisur Rahman, a fish farmer in Gowainghat upazila, knew he was going to lose all his fish, which he had worked very hard to raise in his three ponds.
With the waters receding in some areas, the flood situation in the Sylhet region started showing signs of improvement yesterday.
The flood situation in Sylhet has been deteriorating fast with the rivers inundating vast tracts of land and upending the lives of millions.
Eid has not brought joy to many in the Sylhet region as homes of more than 1.6 million people were flooded and nearly 30,000 had to move to shelter centres.
BNP is facing an uphill battle in different parts of the country in maintaining its existence on the streets due to mass arrests.
Farmers in Sunamganj are worried that the construction and repair works of haor protection dykes are far behind schedule, putting their harvest of Boro paddy at risk.
Sylhet buzzed with election excitement yesterday as hundreds of Awami League activists, decked out in national and party flags, gathered at Alia Madrasa field for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s grand rally.
Former Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid’s income tripled compared to 2018 and his property also increased, according to the affidavit he submitted to the Election Commission
The Sunamganj town has numerous waterbodies crisscrossing across it, including seven canals that flow through the low-lying land before joining the Surma river.
Environmental activists and concerned citizens have strongly criticised the government’s move to establish a safari park in a reserve forest in Moulvibazar’s Juri upazila.
Experts condemn Ecnec approval for safari park in reserve forest
The Sylhet City Corporation’s plan to segregate household waste at source failed due to lack of awareness among people and poor monitoring by the authority.
The Daily Star has spoken to 20 BNP leaders and activists and their families in Dhaka and elsewhere, and like Moksud, each has a distressing story to tell.
State-run Chhatak Cement Company in Sunamganj might not return to production anytime soon as its modernisation project is set to miss the deadline for the second time while uncertainty over the supply of the key raw material persists.
