Ashuganj fertiliser plant struggling for survival
Once a major producer of fertiliser, Ashuganj Fertiliser and Chemical Company Limited is now struggling to survive amid a web of complications.
27 September 2025, 21:50 PM
40 years of tradition and goodwill: How Chunilal’s rosogolla became Sarail’s identity
At one end of the remote Aruail Bazar in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria, a small sweet shop has been drawing visitors for over four decades.
12 September 2025, 20:05 PM
Agent banking drives rural remittance boom
Bangladesh’s agent banking network is continuing to play a transformative role in the country’s financial system, especially through the channelling of remittances through agent outlets.
14 August 2025, 18:00 PM
From the kitchen to continents
It began with a storm and some fallen mangoes.
8 August 2025, 19:58 PM
From Malaysia to Brahmanbaria: Rambutan finds a new home
Rambutan tree requires similar care to a lychee tree
19 July 2025, 12:45 PM
Rebuilding life with quail farming
When Monir Hossain returned to his village home after spending five years abroad, he was unemployed and disheartened. Little did he know that a random video on YouTube would soon change the course of his life. It was a video about quail farming, and it sparked an idea that has since transformed his livelihood.
17 July 2025, 18:00 PM
Brahmanbaria village turns into 'ghost town' after JCD leader’s murder
Arson and looting forces over a hundred families to flee their home
9 July 2025, 13:44 PM
Fayzul finds success in mushroom farming
With a quiet determination and a vision rooted in both necessity and inspiration, Fayzul Gani, a young law student from Karuatoli village in Brahmanbaria’s Akhaura upazila, has carved out an unlikely path to success -- through mushrooms.
4 July 2025, 21:51 PM
Back into darkness
Abdul Hoque was among the several hundred drug traders from Brahmanbaria who had surrendered to police during an anti-narcotics crackdown in 2017.
30 January 2022, 18:00 PM
A fraudster in many guises
Sometimes he introduced himself as an officer at the land office, sometimes as an officer in the deputy commissioner’s office and at other times as an influential person in a government office.
26 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Mosquito menace on the rise in Brahmanbaria town
In many areas across the Brahmanbaria town, mosquitoes descend upon neighbourhoods every day after sunset. But these days, even during daytime, their numbers are so high that people are finding it hard to stay home.
8 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Hefajat’s Innocence Claim: Evidence contradicts
Although the top leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam repeatedly denied the organisation’s involvement in recent countrywide vandalism and violence, photographs and footages testify the opposite.
15 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Hefajat says 'no', pictures say 'yes'
From March 26 to 28, Hefajat-e-Islam activists attacked and vandalised 58 government and non-government institutions, two temples, and houses and offices of top leaders of the district Awami League and Chhatra League in Brahmanbaria.
15 April 2021, 12:23 PM
Mayhem in B’baria: Blame game at full throttle
A week after the Brahmanbaria mayhem, Hefajat-e-Islam, the ruling Awami League and the BNP are trading blame for the widespread violence and damages in the town.
3 April 2021, 18:00 PM
B’baria still reeling from Hefajat havoc
The music academy of legendary musician Ustad Alauddin Khan is situated just 150 metres off Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station.
1 April 2021, 18:00 PM
Power plant filling up Meghna bank
The state-owned Ashuganj Power Station Company Limited (APSCL) is filling the Meghna bank with sand to construct a new unit near Sohagpur village. The sand is being extracted from the river bed.
23 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Boro on 15,000 hectares in BADC project uncertain
Irrigation in 15,000 hectares of land in the upcoming Boro season seems uncertain as various parts of the canal under the Ashuganj-Palash Agro Irrigation Project have been filled with sand to upgrade the highway from Ashuganj river port to Akhaura land port into four lanes.
22 December 2020, 18:00 PM
4 years of Nasirnagar attack: Victims see no hope for justice
Recalling the violent attack at her home in Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria, Purnima Das still trembles with fear.
30 October 2020, 06:01 AM
Toxic water from India: environment in Akhaura at risk
Toxic industrial and medical waste and household sewage has been making its way into Bangladesh from Agartala, the capital of the Indian state of Tripura, for years through a cross-border canal putting the environment, health, and livelihoods in bordering Akhaura upazila at risk.
11 September 2020, 18:00 PM
Beirut blast: Bangladeshi dreams engulfed in flames
Four.
That is the current number of Bangladeshi nationals who died in the Beirut explosion last night.
Beyond that number, however, lies the story of migrant workers who leave Bangladesh to seek better fortune elsewhere.
5 August 2020, 17:09 PM
Dirt now LGED contractors’ component of choice!
Civil engineering contractors in Bijoynagar upazila have been using earth and substandard bricks to repair a vital road that connects Akhaura land port with at least three nearby upazilas.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Transshipment of Indian Goods: First consignment reaches Tripura, Assam thru’ Ctg
India has for the first time sent cargo from Kolkata to Tripura and Assam using Bangladesh’s Akhaura land port in Brahmanbaria.
23 July 2020, 18:00 PM
UZ chairman, his men sued as huge govt sand illegally sold
A staggering 50 lakh cubic feet (cft) of sand extracted by Bangladesh Water Development Board from the Meghna River in Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria district has been illegally sold out.
6 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Facebook post reunites family after 9 yrs
Sohel Rana used to make a living as a rickshaw-puller in Dhaka city. The youth from Natore was married and had two children, with the family living with him in in the city.
25 June 2020, 13:11 PM
Town dwellers suffer as road condition awful
With numerous potholes and cracks, the two-km-long road from Ghukarna to Chandalkhil area of Brahmanbaria town remains virtually off-limits to vehicles, thanks to the negligence of the authorities of the ‘A’ category municipality.
20 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Special OMS of 10-Taka Rice in B’baria: Affluent persons listed as poor
He introduces himself in different ways in line with the different posts he holds.
13 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Permanent structure on leased land
Brahmanbaria Chamber of Commerce and Industry is constructing a six-storey building on a leased land at Kumarshil Moar of Brahmanbaria town, allegedly in violation of the lease contact.
20 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Illegal stations, sand trade threat to 3 Meghna bridges
Some local influential people are running at least 10 illegal landing stations just beside two rail bridges and a highway bridge over the Meghna at Ashuganj in the district while a syndicate of illegal sand traders have set pipelines by cutting roads in the area.
7 January 2020, 18:00 PM