Tangail Shoal teachers suffer amid transport woes
Teachers of various educational institutions located in remote Jamuna shoals of Tangail’s Bhuapur upazila have long been suffering from transportation issues.
20 October 2025, 21:27 PM
Gopalpur in Tangail / Last of the shital pati makers
Shital-pati, a type of mat made by weaving strips of murta cane (Schumannianthus dichotomus), was once a popular household item across the country, prized for its smooth texture and natural cooling properties that offered comfort during the sweltering summer months.
6 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Tangail hospital crippled by manpower crisis
The 250-bed General Hospital in Tangail has been struggling to provide adequate healthcare services due to a severe shortage of doctors and other staff.
4 October 2025, 19:35 PM
Encroachment, waste dumping push Burai Beel to the brink
Burai Beel, a natural wetland located near eastern part of Tangail district town, is rapidly shrinking due to continuous pollution and encroachment.
17 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Encroachment, waste dumping push Burai Beel to the brink
Burai Beel, a natural wetland near Tangail district town, is rapidly shrinking due to pollution and encroachment
17 September 2025, 11:34 AM
Tangail mourns as two Milestone plane crash victims laid to rest
Tanvir was waiting to attend his coaching class after regular school hours when the plane crashed into the school premises
22 July 2025, 06:49 AM
People suffer as bridge lacks approach roads
People continue to suffer due to the lack of approach roads to a bridge built over the Louhajang River in Tangail Sadar upazila.
21 July 2025, 22:18 PM
Battered Tangail road takes toll on locals
The Sakhipur-Sagardighi road in Tangail has become almost unusable due to the lack of necessary repairs, causing immense suffering to people.
20 July 2025, 20:11 PM
Boro harvest in Tangail limping amid labourer shortage
Boro farmers in Tangail are in a dire situation as they are running against time to save the ripe paddy on fields that remain submerged following frequent rain and storm over the past week.
3 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Bananas rotting in orchards
Until the coronavirus crisis hit the country, banana grower Shamsul Alam was confident about making a profit of Tk 20 lakh to Tk 70 lakh from his banana plantation in Tangail’s Madhupur upazila.
4 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 Fallout: Over 1 lakh Tangail sari weavers need urgent aid
Over 1 lakh handloom and power loom workers, the ones that weave the famous Tangail saris, are in dire need of help after they went out of work since their factories were shuttered nearly a month ago amid the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus.
21 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Three crumbling bridges posing threat to community
The three out of the five Bailey bridges, constructed in the 90s, on Kalihati-Borochowna road in Kalihati upazila are now in a ramshackle state.
16 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Tangail transport workers suffering
Several thousand transport workers and their families in Tangail have been passing days in hardship since bus services were suspended on March 26.
13 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Earning from leftovers
Md Rafiq Miah had like everyone else suspended operations at his home-based garments production workstation in Tangail’s Mirzapur following recent government directives on containing the novel coronavirus.
2 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Plan for child dev centres in limbo
Lying unused for long, the buildings and lands of two former sub-jails at Delduar and Sakhipur upazilas in Tangail are decaying while a plan to set up child development centres by the Department of Social Service is yet to be implemented.
26 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Illegal kitchen market on Tangail BSCIC plots
An unapproved kitchen market, occupying two plots of BSCIC (Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation) industrial area in Tangail, remains an issue of conflict between the BSCIC authorities and locals and traders of the market.
23 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Tangail’s traditional sal forest shrinking fast
The much used Inderhat-Jilbari road in Nesarabad upazila is in an awful condition for over a decade, causing untold suffering to the commuters.
19 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Illegal sand traders causing havoc in Bhuapur
Unregistered 10-wheeled tipper trucks engaged by illegal sand traders have been causing havoc in Bhuapur upazila for a long time due to indifference of the authorities concerned.
14 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Open waste dumping a nuisance in Tangail town
Massive waste dumping beside busy roads continues for long, exposing the abysmal condition of waste management system in the century-old Tangail municipality.
11 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Sakhipur eel farmers land in hot water for coronavirus
Eel export from Sakhipur has come to a halt due to the outbreak of coronavirus in China, which consumes around 90 per cent of the fish grown in the upazila in Tangail.
8 March 2020, 18:00 PM
The Daily Star Awardee: Road of love, toil
Mohammad Soinuddin Miah, a poor farmer from Chakgagadhar village in Tangail’s Nagarpur upazila who almost single-handedly constructed an earthen road to ease the sufferings of his fellow villagers, now hopes to see it concreted over by the authorities concerned.
12 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Aminur’s cost-effective ‘mobile’ duck farm pays off
Aminur Rahman of Gachhpara Kamrangaon village in Tangail’s Delduar upazila has found a more profitable way of duck rearing, which requires him to shift the birds to a different place twice or thrice a year, depending on availability of water in waterbodies.
9 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Beekeepers dealt bitter blow
Honey yields from mustard in Tangail were dealt a blow this year due to unfavourable weather conditions, say cultivators.
6 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Picking up where Baker left off
A physician couple from the US has become the successors to late Dr Edric Sargission Baker, the New Zealander who established the Kailakuri Health Care Center in Madhupur upazila in 1996.
2 December 2019, 18:00 PM
People’s safety, sufferings being neglected
While the widening work of the national highway between Elenga and Jamalpur continues at a snail’s pace, no one seems to care about the health hazards as well as rampant accidents people are being subjected to.
20 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Meat consumers’ health risks ignored in Tangail town
Health of Tangail townspeople is under threat due to absence of slaughterhouse and screening of animals at kitchen markets of the town.
11 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Shaky Bailey bridges pose risk on Tangail-Aricha road
All the 12 Bailey bridges in Tangail portion of Tangail-Aricha road are now in dilapidated conditions, posing risk for a large number of vehicles including passenger buses, goods-laden trucks and light vehicles.
5 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Solo painting exhibition by Ismail Hossain Selim
A two-day solo painting exhibition, Oitijjer Sandhane, by noted artist Ismail Hossain Selim, recently concluded in Tangail.
27 October 2019, 18:00 PM