Chapainawabganj

Trees on both sides of the road between Kashiadanga in Rajshahi and Amnura in Chapainawabganj are being cut to widen the road. Photo: Bulbul Habib
Environment

2,000 trees being cut to widen road

The road is mostly 3.7 metres wide, but the project aims to widen it to 5.5 metres. Local people say that the road is already 5.5 metres wide at some places, but the trees along those stretches are...

Photo: BSS
Bangladesh

Floodwater maroons 78,000 people in Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj

Standing in front of her house, the walls of which are gracefully decorated with alponas, Sreemati Daykhon Barman poses with a crest she received from the local administration for pioneering the tradition of alpona in her village. Photo: TBS
Features

A life lived in colour

Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

One held, 343 bottles phensedyl recovered in C’nawabganj