Mintu Deshwara

Lathitila forest in Juri upazila of Moulvibazar faces a serious threat as settlers continue clearing forest areas for fruit cultivation and fish farming there.

After decades of discrimination, the communities of tea plantation workers in Sylhet region are on the verge of losing their native languages and traditions.

Academic activities at Madan Gouri Government Primary School in Moulvibazar’s Kulaura upazila come to a standstill with the advent of monsoon every year.

With haors in Sylhet division getting filled to the brim by monsoon rains, the demand for boats has peaked.

The lone X-ray machine at Moulvibazar’s Kulaura Health Complex has not once been used since the time it was purchased 24 years ago.

Floods have caused severe damage to most roads in all eleven upazilas of Sunamganj, suspending road communications between many upazilas including the district headquarters and Tahirpur.

The government has taken an initiative to close the road and rail route that slices through Lawachhara reserve forest at Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar, in an effort to protect the wildlife in the nature reserve.

PRAN-RFL Group gives the highest importance to environmental issues apart from manufacturing quality products, creating largescale employment and contributing to socio-economic development through the setting up of factories and operations, said its director (marketing) yesterday.

The decades-old railway bridges on Akhaura-Sylhet route are in a poor condition as most of the wooden sleepers, banded clips, and nuts and bolts are damaged or missing.

The derailment of Upaban Express in Moulvibazar was caused likely by faulty lines or misaligned carriage wheels, say officials.

A vast tract of land is under threat of being flooded by the Monu river during this rainy season as its embankment in Moulvibazar

Habiganj town dwellers had to suffer following a three-hour downpour and subsequent waterlogging yesterday.

Unabated extraction of sand, using dredgers, from below the surface of agricultural land in different areas of Srimangal upazila for long is posing erosion threat to vast tracts of nearby agricultural land, dwellings and other establishments.

Tea Workers Day, a day commemorating massacre of tea workers 98 years ago, will be observed today in a befitting manner.

About 20 lakh people live in Moulvibazar. But a large part of the population is outside the coverage of family planning as the district family planning office and union health and family welfare centres have been running with shortage of manpower, serious medicine crisis and inadequate infrastructure.

Only three months after completion of renovation work, the two-kilometre-long road stretching from Kadamtola Bazar to Tanmeuhari village in Sunamganj’s Dharmapasha upazila developed several cracks at different places.

The rainfall and low temperature in the last few days came as a boon for the tea gardens in Sylhet Division as the favourable weather

In death, religious harmony is found alive at the cemetery in Patrokhola Tea Garden in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila.

In 2017, the shock was overwhelming for Chan Mia -- he lost all the Boro paddy grown on seven acres of land to flash floods. The next year, the paddy he cultivated on three acres was damaged. This time it was pest attack.

The three-day long Jatiya Nazrul Sammelan ended recently at the Moulvibazar Government High School auditorium. The conference was jointly organised by Moulvibazar District Administration and the Nazrul Institute.