• Tobacco cultivation booms in lieu of Boro

    Massive tobacco cultivation is going on in the proposed command area of Barendra Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) at Mahabbat Bazitpara village in Nilphamari Sadar upazila as BMDA is yet to activate full swing irrigation in the concerned project.

  • A self-made man

    Jamir Uddin, a landless and homeless day labourer, applied for a house at a government shelter project in 2018. Following his application, he was allotted a two-room house built on two decimals of land at Andulbaria Ashrayan Project under Jibannagar upazila of Chuadanga on June 20, 2021.

  • The legacy of Hajari gur

    It was half-past three in the morning when we started for Manikganj a month ago.

  • Illegal brickfields wreaking havoc on Padma shoal

    At least 51 brickfields have mushroomed in Luxmikunda union f Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila in last five years encroaching vast shoal of the Padma. Apart from this, mindless sand and earth extraction in the area has been going on in broad daylight.

  • The bell ringer of language movement

    The seed of the historic language movement germinated in early 1948 with the people of Pabna staging agitation programmes including enforcement of hartal demanding the rightful place of Bangla.

  • Forest robbers destroy 5,000 trees

    A gang has been mindlessly lifting earth from a reserve forest in Gangamati area adjacent to Kuakata sea beach in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali.

  • UP member Bobita’s fame counterproductive

    When many public representatives draw flak because of their negative activities, some stand apart setting an example to others. Bobita Khatun, a newly-elected member of Mulgram Union Parishad in Pabna’s Chatmohar upazila, has attracted the attention of the netizens.

  • 99 illegal brick kilns run operations in B’baria

    Defying law and posing serious threats to the environment and public health, over 99 brick factories continue to operate in Brahmanbaria.

  • Farmers buying diesel at higher prices

    Farmers living in remote char areas of Brahmaputra river in Kurigram’s Chilmari upazila are buying diesel at Tk 83 instead of Tk 80 a litre.

  • Muazzin’s success in beekeeping

    In the last week of December, 2021, I heard an interesting story of a young man, who has built his dream around the bees.

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