With cold-related illness rising in Sunamganj, the children's ward of the district hospital holds about twice as many patients as beds, and many are treated on the floor.
Locals in Tahirpur, Sunamganj, caught a fishing cat cub in a paddy field and handed it to the forest department.
Migratory birds reaching the haors of Sunamganj have fallen by 85 per cent over the past ten years, according to the Birds Club.
Smuggled Indian cattle entering Sunamganj are being given legal cover through toll receipts at the Bogla Bazar border market, hampering BGB action and hurting local farmers.
Commercial litchi orchards on the hillocks of Manikpur village in Chhatak are transforming the economy of the remote village.
A harvest-end festival was held in Sunamganj, where 100 per cent of the haor boro paddy, worth Tk 5,000 crore, has been brought home this season.
Farmers in Sunamganj's haors fear losing a bumper boro crop to flash floods after a forecast of a week of heavy rain.
Farmers say soil is being cut from 15 haors in Sunamganj and sold, but anyone who complains faces harassment.
FisheriesA draft amendment to the fish conservation rules, published by the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock on 25 March 2025, would ban fishing in the haors of seven districts from 29 May to 28 June every year; objections were invited within 60 days.
Haor farmers in Sunamganj borrow from moneylenders at high interest to grow boro, saying bank loans bring harassment, while the bank says none need face it.
Border Guard Bangladesh seized 885kg of hilsa worth about Tk 22 lakh as smugglers tried to take it to India through Dowarabazar in Sunamganj.
BGB seized 275 kg of hilsa being smuggled into India at the Doarabazar border in Sunamganj after the smugglers fled.
Hit by three floods this year, Sunamganj's haor farmers are replanting Aman paddy, often with high-interest loans, in a bid to recover.
