S Dilip Roy

Bamboo fencing around the homestead has left the marginalised family struggling to move, work and send their children to school

After a Daily Star report highlighted his struggle, the eight-year-old secures full support at a Manikganj institution

Rights activists noted that solar projects are highly important for increasing agricultural production

Times are bad for Bangladesh's farmers. Right when they needed a steady diesel supply to irrigate vast swathes of cropland -- Boro paddies, seasonal vegetables, maize -- the world entered what the head of the International Energy Agency called “the biggest energy security threat in history.”

Growers across Rangpur are hopeful of a bumper harvest of Haribhanga mango, with trees now laden with fruit and advance orders already flowing in, just weeks after nor’wester storms lashed orchards in the region and dampened their spirits.

Extent of damage yet to be determined as farmers count losses in Lalmonirhat, Kurigram

Fresh erosion by the Brahmaputra has swallowed at least 120 hectares of cropland in over the past two weeks, leaving more than a hundred homesteads, educational institutions, and rural infrastructure newly at risk and deepening anxiety among riverbank communities.

As evening falls over Rangpur city, eight-year-old Al Amin steps out onto the streets with packets of popcorn in his hands.