EAM Asaduzzaman

Around three lakh people of Nilphamari Sadar and Kishoreganj upazilas are badly suffering as an important bridge over the Charalkata river at Parerhat on Kishoreganj-Babrijhar road has remained incomplete after the contractor concerned left, keeping the work half done over a year ago.

Naresh Chandra Roy was 27 years old when he joined the Liberation War in 1971.

Chemical waste from privately-owned Equ Paper Mill Ltd beside Dhaka-Dinajpur highway in Saidpur upazila is pouring into the

The 18-kilometre main canal of the country's largest Teesta irrigation Project is increasingly becoming vulnerable due to lifting of earth and sand from the embankments by some unscrupulous people.

Merina Begum was having a video phone call with an agriculture officer when this reporter approached her maize field at Dakkhin Kharibari Char, a sandy area of the Teesta River basin in Nilphamari's Dimla upazila.

With maize cultivation growing more popular each year, wheat cultivation in Rangpur agriculture region is seeing a significant decline.

Although security has been beefed up in Saidpur Airport recently, passengers and locals claimed that it was only noticeable at the time of landing and departure of aircrafts but remained lax in other times.

Twenty years ago, Dholuram Roy slipped while catching a running train and four months after that fatal accident he returned home with both his legs amputated from knees. He was 17 then.

People like porters, day labourers and betel leaf sellers are guarding six closed railway stations in Parbotipur-Chilahati section under the West Zone (WZ) of Bangladesh Railway (BR) for over a decade under a temporary arrangement.

Any health-conscious person visiting the government-run Leprosy Hospital in Nilphamari may notice an irony that a large chunk of land belonging to the hospital is being used for growing tobacco.

Around 50,000 people of 20 villages in Sadar and Jaldhaka upazilas of the district have been suffering for around three years as construction of a bridge over Burikhora river on important Ramnagar-Mirganj Road has not been completed.

Local influential people have occupied almost all the 3,602 acres of land, worth around Tk 500 crore, belonging to relief and disaster management ministry in four upazilas of the district and built residential buildings, business centres and many other structures due to lack of proper monitoring by the department concerned.

Craftsman Dhananjoy Roy has turned his thatched hut in a remote village of Nilphamari into a mini Liberation War museum.

A dozen tractors heavily overloaded with earth crossed a bridge over a canal in Domar upazila, causing damage to it.

Dholuram Roy, who lost his both legs under the wheels of a train 20 years ago, is now a successful farmer, thanks to his will power and perseverance.

Influential people have occupied 2407 acres of land in West Zone (WZ) of Bangladesh Railway (BR) but no steps have been taken by the authorities concerned to free the vast areas.

With the onset of potato cultivation season, farmers in five northern districts under Rangpur agriculture region are worried due to shortage of quality seeds as supply by Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) is too meagre to meet the demand.

The Bamondanga river flowing through Nilphamari municipality has turned into a drain as grabbers continue filling it to construct business centres, industrial units, homesteads and so on.

With the onset of winter season, Sarkerpara village, popularly known as date juice village, in Kamarpukur union under Saidpur upazila is buzzing with activity.

Once a poverty-stricken village, Barodaha village in Botlagari union under Saidpur upazila is now known as vegetable village as vegetable farming has brought tremendous improvement in the socio-economic condition of the villagers.