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
New ‘poison’ in old bottles
October 9, 2019. Anwarpur village, Akhaura.
The two correspondents went to the house of Abu Rayhan, near Hirapur High School, posing as Phensedyl users.
4 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Illegal sand trade poses threat to Titas bridge
At a time when the government is conducting drives against river encroachment, an influential sand trader is not only constricting flow of the Titas river in Banchharampur upazila by occupying its bank, but also endangering Sheikh Hasina Titas Setu over the river.
24 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Smugglers of zero line
It’s a house right on the zero line.
Transnational syndicates have turned its kitchen into a storeroom of smuggled motorcycles. They also use it for assembling bikes, bringing in parts like tanks, wheels, headlights and seats from across the border.
24 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Mass grave of 250 FFs lies in utter neglect
A mass graveyard of 250 martyrs of the Liberation War at Bangladesh-Tripura border is now covered with jungle, making it hardly distinguishable from surroundings.
14 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Brahmanbaria Train Accident: A mother’s search for her sons continues
Four days have passed since the gruesome accident on early Tuesday in Brahmanbaria; brothers -- Nurul Islam and Badal Mia -- still remain missing.
15 November 2019, 18:00 PM
‘Train driver’s fault’ takes sixteen lives
It was around 3:00am yesterday.
A Chattogram-bound train from Sylhet -- Udayan Express -- was changing its track to allow Dhaka-bound train Turna Nishita Express from Chattogram to pass byMandobagh Railway Station in Brahmanbaria’s Kasba.
12 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Many faces of train tragedy
The train accident in Brahmanbaria yesterday left at least 16 dead and shattered the lives of many.
12 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Nasirnagar Attack Probe: It is just ‘eyewash’
Even three years after arson attacks and vandalism on the homes and temples of Hindus in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar upazila, those responsible are still to face any punishment as the investigations of most of the cases are yet to be complete.
29 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Brutal murder at Feni Madrasa 16 get death penalty
A Feni court yesterday handed down death sentence to all the 16 accused, including a sacked madrasa principal and two expelled local Awami League leaders, over the murder of madrasa student Nusrat Jahan Rafi in April, an incident that had shocked the entire nation.
24 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Teacher shortage bogs down academic activities
Headteacher posts in Brahmanbaria’s 159 government primary schools lied vacant for years, some for as long as four years.
6 October 2019, 18:00 PM
B’baria Murder Probe: Dead man talking
A former union parishad chairman in Brahmanbaria died on November 2 last year, but documents placed before a district court show he “gave statement” to a police officer as a witness in a murder case nearly three months after his death.
22 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Waterbodies disappearing in Brahmanbaria town
Once known as a ‘town of ponds’, Brahmanbaria now hardly retained only one-fourth of its 200 natural water bodies.
1 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Moderate rain inundates Brahmanbaria town
Waterlogging has become a common phenomenon in monsoon at a number of neighbourhoods in Brahmanbaria.
25 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Crossing the Mediterranean: Trip doomed from start
The motorboat used by traffickers for the journey by sea from the coast of Libya to Europe was barely capable of carrying 35 people. Yet, 75 people, including the 64 Bangladeshis, were crammed on board.
23 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Bridge turns death trap
The Kaikyachara Bridge that connects Bijoynagar and Madhabpur upazilas has remained severely damaged for months now, causing distress to locals and hampering the movement of traffic.
28 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Once a canal ran through it
A flowing canal ran through the town of Brahmanbaria once. Now what is left of the 3.5-km-long canal is a mere stream. At places, it looks as though it is a long stretch of barren land.
19 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Drying of river hampers Boro farming in B'baria
Boro cultivation on 4,000 bighas of land in six villages of Nasirnagar upazila has been facing a serious setback this year due to insufficient flow of water in the dried up Chikondiya river.
2 March 2019, 18:00 PM
2 women surrender after 39 hours
Two suspected women militants surrender two days after law enforcers cordoned off a seven-storey building in Gangpar area of Madhabdi upazila in Narsingdi.
17 October 2018, 18:00 PM
Paving in the rain!
It was raining around 12:30pm yesterday. Despite this, a group of workers, equipped with shovels and rakes, was trying to level freshly laid asphalt on TA Road near Ghorapatty intersection in Brahmanbaria town. Next to them two road rollers were moving in different directions to compact the surface.
21 July 2018, 18:00 PM
No less than a movie
It was an unusual but lucrative offer for Selim Mia, a rickshaw-puller in Brahmanbaria's Chhoto Kuripaika village.
28 March 2018, 18:00 PM