Dwoha Chowdhury

The death of a few thousand ducks at the beginning of the breeding season has led to fear and apprehension among the farmers in Sylhet division.

Farmers and public representatives have reiterated their demand for declaring Sunamganj haor belt a disaster zone prior to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to the area today.

Tens of thousands of haor people are still waiting for food and other relief items to reach them. The early flash flood first hit the country's north-eastern region late last month and continued to inundate more and more areas till last week, destroying almost all of the region's Boro crop.

It was the third day he went to the bazaar in Bishwambarpur upazila, stood in a long queue for hours to buy rice and flour at subsidised prices but returned home empty handed.

Ashik Miah, a 45-year-old farmer of Jaladhartupi village, was staring helplessly at his inundated paddy field as he sat beside Dekhar

Farmers in the northeastern backswamp are all too familiar with flash floods. Rice paddies grown just once a year in this vast haor remain at the mercy of nature. But thousands of growers in this wetland ecosystem had never experienced flash floods striking this early as in this season, completely destroying paddies in over one lakh hectares of land.

With gas, power and water supplies restored and some shops and roads reopened, many people were returning home in Sylhet's Shibbari area, but many of them found the stench of decomposed bodies of two suspected militants at “Atia Mahal” difficult to bear.

Police have brought the family members of “Neo JMB” leader Maynul Islam Musa, believed to have been killed in an army operation at a militant den in Sylhet, to the north-eastern city yesterday to collect their DNA samples.

Investigators are looking into the conducts of the people who died and were injured in Saturday's twin blasts in Sylhet.

Two workers were killed and as many injured in a landslide while extracting stone illegally from Nayabasti area in the district's Gowainghat upazila early yesterday.

Kalikaprasad Bhattacharjee, the eminent Bangalee folk musician who died recently in a road accident, was remembered in a ceremony by Nagarnat, a theatre-musical troupe of Sylhet. The tribute included a musical presentation decorated with the songs Kalika presented with his band Dohar.

The fifth day of Bengal Cultural Festival in Sylhet marked the closing of Kali O Kalam Sahitya Sammilan at Syed Mujtaba Ali Mancha where poets from all walks of Bangladesh and India had gathered and presented their own creation on stage.

Hundreds of people at the 'London 1971' exhibition at Mohammad Ali Gymnasium in Sylhet learnt with fascination about the many unsung heroes of the Liberation War of Bangladesh through a display of memorabilia from London back in 1971.

“The play and stage play are clearly different, and plays have their own value in literature, which cannot be differentiated from the literature,” Shaoli Mitra, president of West Bengal Sahitya Academy said on a Saturday at the literary conference being held as part of the Bengal Sangskritik Utshab Sylhet 1017.

James, fondly referred to as the 'Guru' by fans, clearly remembered the birth anniversary of famous poet Jibananda Das on February 17, as he started his concert with the very famous song “Padma Patar Jol” where poet and poetry blended perfectly.

Named after a sufi saint, a hillock in Sylhet's Companiganj upazila is an example of how cruel man can be towards nature and the environment. Shah Arefin Tila in Bholaganj is gradually being razed to the ground, thanks to the greed of some unscrupulous stone traders and the authorities for not taking proper steps.

For the last thirteen years Amirul's life has been a continuous struggle.

Random cutting down of trees for firewood in and around Tanguar Haor, the 100km wetland in Sunamganj, is slowly destroying its ecosystem.

A three-day festival organised by Theatre Murari Chand ends today at the Saheed Minar premise of the Murari Chand College (MC College) in Sylhet. The festival was organised to mark the troupe's 4th anniversary, and to celebrate the 45 years of victory.

As Suma Begum's husband and his unidentified accomplices are still at large, her family fears further attacks for filing a case over the December 15 brutal torture of the housewife in Sylhet.