EAM Asaduzzaman

The attendance of primary students in Nilphamari has seen a decrease of 13pc to 16pc after reopening of school following a long hiatus, which guardians and teachers say may be the result of the end of the school feeding programme.

Small jute mills of Rangpur division in the country’s northwest have resumed production after remaining shut for several months as raw jute prices soared after last year’s harvests and for the pandemic-induced business losses.

Potato farmers and traders have been left bewildered by a drastic fall in potato prices this year as many of them had packed their produce into cold storages to sell during the rainy season, when most crops die of flooding and before the arrival of winter crops, in order to maximise profits.

Allured by the high price of raw jute at the fag end of last year, a section of traders and seasonal buyers are now rushing to stockpile the product.

It was once part of the capital of the powerful Pala dynasty which ruled Bengal up till the 12th century. The earthen wall protecting the fort from invaders still stands in present-day Dharmapalagarh village of Nilphamari’s Jaldhaka upazila.

Pregnant women coming to Gomnati union health and family welfare center (UHFWC) at Dakkhin Ambari village in Domar upazila for taking antenatal and

Betel nut farming has changed the luck of many farmers in Nilphamari district as the crop is more profitable than many others thanks to its nature of giving high yield with little care and handsome market price.

The industrial estate of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Nilphamari has become a hub for small businesses as it gives them easy access to key markets in the northern part of the country.

Maize farmers are in a festive mood as they have had a bumper harvest this season and received fair prices.

It was a sunny morning on April 27, 1971 when another tragic chapter of brutality of Pakistani occupational force was written in a remote village of Nilphamari.

Shukuria Begum, 47, mother of three children at remote Laxmanpur village in Nilphamari’s Saidpur upazila, has been cultivating mushroom at her home premises using innovative technique for the last six years.

Language movement veteran Somela Rahman is 84 now. Once quite the rabble-rouser, she now passes most of her time at her residence in Nilphamari’s Hospital Road, bed-ridden with old age complications.

It is a transformation out of a fairy tale. A land once characterised by thatched houses and abject poverty now dotted with sturdy brick and tin residences and the unmistakeable signs of people relishing life’s comforts.

Jackpot Cashew Nuts Industries started producing an assortment of cashew-nut based foods earlier this year in a bid to cash in on the growing demand for heart-healthy snacks.

After 55 years, rail communications between Bangladesh and India through Chilahati-Haldibari route is going to resume today.

It was past midnight at Saidpur Rail Station. In the dim light, mostly Hindu Marwaris and some Bangalees from all walks of life could be seen standing beside the platform. Tense, even those who knew each other were not talking.

In the past, people in rural Bangladesh used to consider coffee as an expensive, imported South American drinking product meant for a select group of people with high income.

Indigenous people from the Musahar community, who used to live on catching and selling eel and snail, are struggling to survive as they cannot sell eel and snail amid coronavirus outbreak.

Tea is fast replacing tobacco in Kishoreganj upazila of Nilphamari as favourable weather and soil conditions along with a ready market next door mean large profits for farmers.

Saidpur Railway Workshop in Nilphamari, the largest in the country established in 1870, has been displaying rail engines from the bygone era at its exhibition yard on its premises, in a bid to preserve the glorious history of railway.