Dwoha Chowdhury

In the hilly terrain of Sunamganj’s Tahirpur upazila, right at the foot of the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, there is the grave of a visionary leader who dreamt of an independent Khasi state till his last day.

The coronavirus pandemic began a few months after DHL, the world’s largest courier, parcel, and express mail service, celebrated its golden jubilee on September 25, 2019.

With a long and successful career at the top of several multinational companies (MNCs), Reazul Haque Chowdhury took the helm of Runner Automobiles in November 2018.

Named after the late 18th century European chemist Lewis Berger, Berger Paints is on a never-ending quest to create innovative products.

The vast wetland ecosystem of Tanguar Haor in Sunamganj is like no other place in the country. It provides livelihood for many and is home to a great variety of biodiversity. But overfishing in the waters is likely causing a loss of native fish species and as a result also affecting other forms of life which depend on them for food. In order to protect this ecologically critical area, effective measures need to be taken to stop overfishing and also focus on providing suitable alternative employment for fishermen.

How crooked can a cop get?

Expecting mothers needing specialised care in remote villages under Dharmapasha upazila of Sunamganj still have to endure hours-long potentially risky journeys to the nearest public health facility, despite two new mother and children welfare centres in the area.

Mahtab Uddin Ahmed began his professional career with IDLC Finance, formerly known as the Industrial Development Leasing Company. Ahmed

On the day Lt Col Dewan Mohammad Tasawwar Raja, who has been in a coma for more than seven years, was supposed to retire, he was instead promoted to colonel.

Having begun his advertising career in 1999 with the Mumbai-based Rediffusion Dentsu Young & Rubicam Private, Syed Gousul Alam Shaon assumed responsibility of Grey Group’s strategic planning and creative department in early 2007. Now, as a managing partner and country head, he leads the global advertising and marketing agency’s Bangladesh operations. During the second episode of The Daily Star’s ‘The Chief Executive Show’, he spoke about his turbulent youth, risk taking, various challenges to success, creative leadership and more.

Jaflong, a popular tourist destination, is rightly revered as the Daughter of Nature for its natural splendour.

The heartland of a reserve forest in Moulvibazar is in the process of being leased out to a private company for tea plantation.

Law enforcers arrested eight men accused in a case filed over Friday night’s rape at the hostel of Murari Chand College in Sylhet.

The Murari Chand College and hostel authorities who apparently turned a blind eye as a group of BCL activists occupied many rooms are now probing how those very activists could rape a woman inside the hostel.

Ten years ago, Uday Singha Palash, a student of Murari Chand College and a Bangladesh Chhatra League activist, was murdered in Sylhet city’s Tilagarh area in a factional clash.

Seven children, between ages 6-14 years, used to eat, sleep and breathe in the streets of Sylhet city, with no one to look out for them. For years, they begged, pick-pocketed and even mugged, and at one point of their problematic lives, got addicted to sniffing glue, commonly known as “dandy”.

On Friday night around 8:00, a married couple was visiting the college campus when the suspects forced both of them to the hostel and gang-raped the wife while keeping the husband tied with a rope.

Chandni Ghat, Clocktower of Ali Amjad, Kean Bridge, Sarada Hall and Circuit House -- all stand side by side on Surma riverbank, and together symbolise present-day Sylhet city.

There are laws, High Court order, protests of environmentalists and a dedicated government office to keep vigilance, but nothing can stop hillock cutting in Sylhet.

Stone lifting from Bichanakandi is harming the ecological balance of the famous tourist destination in Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila.