Locals suffer as Teesta devours key road
9 September 2026
Nearly 300 metres of an unpaved road along the Teesta riverbank in Khuniagachh union of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila have been eroded over the past one month, causing severe hardship for more than 2,000 families living in several shoals nearby.
9 September 2026
Fertiliser still stuck in supply chain maze
9 September 2026
Bangladesh has enough fertiliser, the government says. Dealers say they have stocks. Yet farmers in several districts say authorised dealers are refusing to sell or capping them at one sack, forcing many to buy from unauthorised sellers at inflated prices.
9 September 2026
Teesta swallows 300-metre road, disrupts lives of 2,000 families in Lalmonirhat
7 September 2026
Farmers bear extra time, labour and transport costs after erosion makes road unusable
7 September 2026
Rangpur murders: Two weeks on, motive is still unclear
4 September 2026
Two weeks have passed, and police still cannot explain the motive behind the gruesome killing of four members of a family in Rangpur city.
4 September 2026
Where did around Tk 15 lakh go? Ganapati withdrew it weeks before family killings
30 August 2026
Relatives and former colleagues say the slain Rangpur teacher withdrew the provident fund money 22 days before the killings; police are still trying to trace it
30 August 2026
Police reveal new details in Rangpur family killings
27 August 2026
Commissioner says the killings took place last Friday morning, after Ganapati saw the accused taking yaba on the roof
27 August 2026
Fertiliser prices soar amid ‘artificial crisis’
25 August 2026
For farmers racing against the crop calendar, fertiliser is becoming a source of anxiety.
25 August 2026
‘Their faces had been burned’: Relatives say after receiving Rangpur victims’ bodies
23 August 2026
CID official says a flammable substance appears to have been poured on the victims’ faces
23 August 2026
Ambulance, gifted by India, lies idle for 2yrs
A life support ambulance, gifted by India, remains unused and has been left under the open sky on the Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital premises for nearly two years due to the lack of a driver.
18 September 2023
Life support ambulance, gifted by India, lying idle at Lalmonirhat hospital
A life support ambulance, gifted by India, remains unused and has been left under the open sky on the Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital premises for nearly two years due to lack of a driver
18 September 2023
A relief for victims
Residents of two shoal areas along the Teesta riverbed in Lalmonirhat used to endure the hardships of flooding. This year, the situation is quite different. Floodwaters failed to breach their elevated homesteads.
8 September 2023
Tk 37 power bills for a minister’s home!
People often talk about ghostly electricity bills that are absurdly high. In case of Social Welfare Minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed and his family, the bills are nonsensically low.
7 September 2023
Illegal stone extraction resumes despite ban
Illegal stone extraction in three rivers in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila resumed in full swing after a six-year pause, resulting in massive damage to the water bodies, which may lead to erosion.
4 September 2023
Working hard, risking wellbeing... all for Tk 400
Despite going through the arduous task of stone crushing, along with loading and unloading, about 40,000 labourers at Lalmonirhat’s Burimari and Kurigram’s Sonahat land ports are deprived of fair wages.
27 August 2023
Attack leaves Rabidas youth with broken leg
With excruciating pain in his broken right leg, Subas Chandra Rabidas was seen lying on a bed at Kurigram Sadar Hospital on Friday afternoon.
26 August 2023
Jute production in Rangpur region: Farmers unhappy with low price
Maqbul Hossain, 65, a jute farmer of Gokunda village under Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, cultivated Pratiman variety of jute on five bighas of land and produced 35 maunds of the golden fibre for a production cost of Tk 80,000.
24 August 2023
Sorrows of sharecroppers
Farmer Jahidul Islam, who has no cultivable land of his own, has been producing various crops as a sharecropper for years.
15 August 2023
In constant fear of losing everything
Erosion by the river Brahmaputra has taken a serious turn at 11 villages in Kurigram recently, making numerous people homeless.
30 July 2023
Two bridges side by side, but of no use
Two newly constructed bridges over a canal in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila have remained unfit for movements due to lack of approach roads on either side of both the structures.
26 July 2023
Burimari land port misses revenue target again
The revenue collection target set for the Burimari land port by the National Board of Revenue has remained unmet for the last couple of years.
25 July 2023
Burimari land port again misses revenue target
It collected Tk 94.6 crore in revenue in FY23, which was 28.23% down from target
25 July 2023
Teesta Erosion: Lives upended, homes swept away
“We had a home and four bighas of arable land, all of which got washed away on Sunday. Now, we have become homeless and landless,” said Koushulya Rani as she broke into tears.
19 July 2023
Fareast Islami Life Ins facing steep debt
Firoza Begum, a resident of Shalmara village in Bhelabari union under Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat, opened a 12-year term policy with Fareast Islami Life Insurance Company some 15 years ago.
16 July 2023
Teesta Channel in Kurigram: Over 10,000 families under erosion threat
A new Teesta branch in Gatiashyam village of Gharialdanga in Kurigram’s Rajarhat upazila has become the cause of concerns for locals.
13 July 2023
Kathkachu farming bringing profit to farmers
Farmers in Bangladesh are pleased to be getting good yields and prices for kathkachu, a variety of taro root native to South Asia, as demand for the crop has risen this year.
12 July 2023
Teesta water crosses danger level in Lalmonirhat
Homes of some locals flooded; water of Dharla, Dudhkumar and Buriganga rising
5 July 2023
Eid vacation raises concern for mango farmers
The ongoing holiday centring Eid-ul-Azha has raised concerns among mango farmers that prices for the fruit may decline further in coming days despite the high production cost.
28 June 2023
Educational institution lost to erosion by Brahmaputra
Authorities of Dakkhin Khauria School and College in Kurigram’s Chilmari upazila have been compelled to suspend all classes as erosion by the Brahmaputra river devoured a major portion of the institution building.
24 June 2023