Khorshed Alam

Rony Pramanik. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

'Rony, don't go out, they will shoot you': Mother's fear comes true

A picketer throws a plastic chair in the fire during a recent clash between quota reform protesters and law enforcement agencies. Courtesy: File Photo.
Bangladesh

‘For seven days, my life was confined within the bus counter’

A vegetable vendor is seen with attending to his products at a kitchen market in the capital. Photo: Jahir Rayhan
Bangladesh

Trucks charging more as risk fee for vegetable transportation

Photo collage: TBS
Bangladesh

Violence, curfew: Chicken, fish, dairy farms face feed crisis, sales decline

Bogura district prison. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

Bogura jail: Renovation request sent to Public Works Department several times

Police arrest four death row convicts on 26 June 2024, a day after they escaped from Bogura Central Jail. Photo: BSS
Crime

Bogura jailbreak: 'Prison guard was chatting, chief warden was elsewhere'

Hasi Khatun tends to her three cows at her home-based dairy farm in Salop union, Ullapara upazila, Sirajganj. With support from the government and NGOs, women in Sirajganj are transforming their homes into successful dairy farms boosting the district's economy. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Md Golam Ehsanul Habib
Economy

Sirajganj's Tk100cr dairy market thrives on milk production boom

Suraiya Farhana Reshma and her workers busy making organic fertiliser on her farm in Bogura. Earning Tk2.5 lakh monthly, Reshma employs 15 people and promotes ecological balance. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Bogura's Tk273cr organic fertiliser production sows seed of 'agro revolution'

Illustration: TBS
Agriculture

Modern cattle farming generates safe meat, demand on the rise

A fruit seller holds litchis in his hands at a market in Dinajpur. The district has witnessed a fall in litchi and mango production this year due to unfavourable weather. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Unfavourable weather hits harvest of mangoes, litchis in Rajshahi, Dinajpur

The re-excavated Alta Dighi, Naogaon's largest reservoir, awaits refilling, either artificially or by monsoon rains. Controversy surrounds a project aiming to restore Alta Dighi and the surrounding forest due to deforestation. The photo was taken recently. Photo: Khorshed Alam
Bangladesh

Altadighi’s fate: How a conservation project wreaks havoc on a national park

An artisan assembles “tal-pakha,” hand fans made of palm tree leaves, in the Arola-Jogirbhaban area of Kahaloo upazila in Bogura. Almost every household in the area is involved in fan making, making it their main source of income. Artisans say around Tk7-8 crore is earned annually by selling these fans to wholesalers from various districts, including Dhaka, Sylhet, Chattogram, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Chapainawabganj. The photo was taken recently. Photo: TBS
Economy

Pakha Gram: Generating Tk7cr a year, two Bogura villages evolve into fan-making hub

Workers pass busy time knitting “bisht” at a factory at Hapunia area of Bogura sadar upazila. Bisht is a traditional garment worn by Arabs in the Middle Eastern countries. Manufactured in Bogura factories, it is exported to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait. Photo: TBS
Economy

Making dress for Middle East rulers: Bogura lights up a path of prosperity