Dwoha Chowdhury

When a column of Pakistan army vehicles entered Dewrachhara Tea Garden in Moulvibazar in the afternoon of May 3, 1971, most of the workers there were alarmed but had little strength left to do anything about it.

As the days go by, the hillocks that stand tall in Sylhet district are being replaced by towering concrete structures. Due to rampant, illegal hillock cutting in absence of adequate enforcement of the law, Sylhet’s surroundings are in grave danger. Green activists have flagged this activity as the most notable environmental threat facing the district for the last two decades.

Despite widespread criticism of cutting trees in the name of development, at least 200 trees were chopped down in the last couple of weeks at Sylhet city’s Shahjalal Upashahar area.

One year after the custodial killing of Rayhan Ahmed, the family still awaits justice, as the case’s trial just began on September 30.

It was a rainy night in July 2008. Residents of some bordering villages in Sunamganj’s Tahirpur upazila heard a sound of landslide coming from a hill across the border.

“I don’t believe that expressing an opinion can be considered a crime. I still believe in freedom of speech.”

One year after the rape incident at Sylhet’s Murari Chand College (MC College), trial of two cases filed over rape and mugging are yet to begin in court, due to several legal obligations and the ongoing pandemic.

One-year-old Ishan Das Shoumya was all smiles as he played on the bed, but his mother Sweety Rani Das could not fight back the tears as she spoke about the nightmare that was the last six months.

The by-election to Sylhet-3 constituency was marked by a very low turnout of voters yesterday.

On May 7, a fisherman in Sylhet caught a 180kg Baghair from the Kushiyara river and brought it to Lalbazar, a famous fish market in the city.

Medical ventilator, a crucial lifesaving equipment, is still scarce in rural and certain urban hospitals where coronavirus patients continue to suffer and die.

How many people actually died of Covid-19 in Sylhet division since the beginning of the pandemic?

Eighty-year-old Lal Chan Bibi of Moulvibazar’s Barlekha upazila was suffering from Covid-19 symptoms for the last couple of days.

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

Reticent painter and art teacher Arabinda Das Gupta breathed his last at Sylhet Shahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital this morning at 10:22 am today. He was 68 years old.

On Thursday night, there were 54 patients admitted to the Covid-19 unit of a privately-owned Sylhet Community Based Hospital in the city.

Oxygen crisis at the privately-owned Sylhet Community Based Hospital led to the death of a Covid-19 patient early Friday.

In 2015, a Harvard Business Review article by Lindsay McGregor and Neel Doshi explained the connection between company culture and employee motivation. It cites that global business leaders believe that a strong organisational culture is critical to success.

At 26, Bina Roy, a tea garden worker at Khejuri Tea Garden of Sreemangal upazila in Moulvibazar, is already a mother of four after getting married at 16.

On June 20, Rafique Miah, an elderly resident of Sunamganj’s Jagannathpur upazila, tested positive for Covid-19. He was treated at a private hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU) for three days till his condition improved, and then he returned home.