The farmers in Sunamganj's Tahirpur upazila are facing great distress due to an outbreak of the blast disease, a common fungal infection that has severely impacted their harvest during the cultivation season. The disease has been widespread in Bri-28 and Bri-81 rice varieties, leading to significant losses for farmers in the
Author: Arun Chakrobortay, UNB
X-ray machine lies unused at hospital for 18 yrs
Thousands of people are being deprived of adequate health facilities as the lone X-ray machine at 50-bed Shalla upazila health complex has been lying unused for 18 years at its corridor, thanks to the negligence of the authorities concerned. The X-ray machine was bought for the health complex at about Tk
13 Sunamganj villages cry for a concrete bridge
Several thousand people of thirteen villages in Doarabazar upazila in Sunamganj district have been going through unspeakable sufferings for years for want of a concrete bridge over the Chelai River at Hasnabahar Bhanga in the upazila. Every year the residents of the thirteen villages make a makeshift bamboo bridge at their