Several thousand passengers, who use the Elisha launch terminal in Bhola regularly, have been suffering for months due to the lack of gangways, connecting the pontoon.
Potato farmers in five northern districts -- Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Gaibandha, Rangpur, and Nilphamari -- in the Rangpur region are seeing a bumper yield of the early variety potatoes due to favourable weather conditions.
Chaumohani Union Health and Family Welfare Centre in Habiganj’s Madhabpur upazila provides health services to nearly 40,000 people living in different villages under the union.
Even after 24 years of its establishment, Tiakhali College in Barguna’s Amtali upazila has not been included under the government’s nationalisation scheme due to unknown reason.
A group of people in Barlekha upazila joined hands to make a three-kilometre road suitable for vehicular movement as it turned from bad to worse in the last couple of years due to lack of renovation work for long.
Early variety of pumpkin has brought fortune to the farmers in Rangpur region as good yield and fair price of the item this year has come as a boon to them.
Acute crisis of quality seeds in the ongoing potato cultivation season has become a cause of concern for the potato growers in different upazilas of Barguna.
The northern districts of the country, particularly Lalmonirhat and Kurigram, have been experiencing a harsh winter over the past several days, with temperatures dropping significantly on a regular basis.
Huge quantities of dried fish are produced every year in different haor areas of Netrakona while several hundred marginalised people are involved in the business worth hundreds of crores annually.
Cultivation of maltas and oranges is gradually gaining popularities among farmers in Rangamati reason as a growing number of them are seeing profits from the two fruits.
An important canal in Bagruna’s Amtali upazila headquarters has become badly polluted and almost dead due to mindless filling and continuous encroachments.
Mindless dumping of waste materials by Jamalpur’s Sarishabari Municipality has been polluting two important rivers and different local water bodies for over three decades.
Members of a voluntary organisation in Patuakhali town have been buying different vegetable items directly from the growers and selling those to consumers, especially low-income group people, at a cheaper price.
Locals said that despite repeated complaints to the authorities concerned, nothing has been done so far
Influential quarters have continued constructing an illegal market by occupying a portion of land owned by the Roads and Highways Department (RHD) in Habiganj town.
Untimely rain since the end of last month has caused severe damage to early varieties of vegetable plants in different districts under Rangpur region.
The Lalmonirhat District Administration has ordered a case to be filed against a college principal who allegedly referred to students from the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement as a “disabled generation” in a Facebook post.
The accumulation of garbage and household waste along a two-kilometre stretch of the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Madhabpur upazila, Habiganj district, is causing significant inconvenience to both locals and those passing through the area.
