Fagua brings rhythm to lives of tea workers

The Fagua festival has a special place in the life of tea workers. Besides an attempt to preserve their heritage, the festival brings rhythm to their arduous and monotonous lives.
Yesterday, tea workers from different areas, belonging to different ethnic groups with their own language and culture, came together as one to mark the Fagua festival, held at Fulchhara football

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Lawachhara National Park at risk

The eco-system of Lawachhara National Park in Moulvibazar is at risk because of indiscriminate destruction of forest resources, a heavy rush of visitors even into the deep forest and lack of proper maintenance and scarcity of wild animals.
The district administration has already expressed concern about the worrying state of the environment protection system in the park.
In a letter to the forest and environment ministry, the district administration made a number of recommendations to

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Chevron dumps oil rig waste into hilly stream

100 villagers contact skin diseases from using the water in Moulvibazar
At least 100 people of three villages in Madhabpur union under Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar have contracted skin diseases from using the water of a hilly stream allegedly poisoned by the waste of a gas well that Chevron is drilling in the area.
The villagers of Bhashnigaon, Vabdarigaon, and Tilagaon alleged the stream, locally known as

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Rare goose spotted

A rare species of goose was spotted for the first time in the country in Hakaluki Haor of Moulvibazar district last Saturday.
A group of bird watchers led by eminent bird specialists Dr Enam al Haque and Paul Thompson have found the ‘lesser white-fronted goose’ on the concluding day of the two-day bird enumeration session at the haor.
“This species of goose has been detected for the first

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