The days of the movement for mother language are a priceless treasure for 91-year-old Abdul Aziz, a retired school teacher.
In Phulbaria upazila of Mymensingh, the shivering cold of winter couldn’t dampen the spirit of hundreds who gathered in Laxmipur to witness a spectacle of heritage.
Unclean drains, scattered waste key contributors, say locals
Kased, who was the first martyr from Gafargaon upazila in Mymensingh, died in combat in the Paithol area on June 15, 1971
Female jatra artistes in Mymensingh are facing severe financial struggles as half of the peak season, from November to February, has already passed without receiving a single performance contract
Boro Bazar Road in Mymensingh city remains perpetually clogged with over 100 trucks and pick-up vans, obstructing smooth vehicle passage and creating daily chaos
Authorities of Mymensingh City Corporation have allegedly been constructing a public toilet on Old Brahmaputra river's land in city's Bisweswari Debi Road area
Farmers across Bangladesh are more inclined than ever to cultivate sunflowers as an alternative to traditional paddy crops that do not offer much profit.
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.
For the longest river in the country, the Brahmaputra is in quite the awful state. Years of rampant river grabbing and sand lifting has put its existence in such a crisis that even its tributaries are in danger today.
Netrakona’s Durgapur upazila is home to a forest area that stretches across both sides of the border with India. Also known as Susang Durgapur, it plays host to a diversity of wild animals.
Long queues of cars, buses, rickshaws and motorbikes -- an inseparable image associated mostly with life in metros -- like Dhaka and Chattogram. However, traffic jam, these days, has become a regular phenomenon in the somewhat small divisional city of Mymensingh as well.
Some 200 families of Bade Majhira village in Muktagacha upazila of Mymensingh have been making a living by making fishing rods. This has been an ancestral profession of these families for around a century.
For around four months a year -- from June to September -- thousands of residents of Balashpur Madhyapara area in Mymensingh city have to sit through debilitating waterlogging.
For the past two years, Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bengali Hindu community, had lost its colours to the pandemic.
Before the pandemic hit, a group of women with disabilities were living a respectable life, working for a handloom workshop in Mymensingh’s Kanchijuly area.
“No vacant beds available for Covid-19 patients at ICU and Covid wards” -- reads the sign hanging in front of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital’s (MMCH) emergency department.
