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Rangpur region / Continuous rain floods paddy, maize fields

35 MIN(s) ago
Vast low-lying areas across Rangpur, including mature Boro paddy and maize fields across its five districts, have been inundated after the last five days of continuous rainfall.
35 MIN(s) ago
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Fenced in: Rabidas family confined in own home over land dispute in Kurigram

3 hour(s) ago
Bamboo fencing around the homestead has left the marginalised family struggling to move, work and send their children to school
3 hour(s) ago
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Schoolboy by day, breadwinner by night: Al Amin starts new life at a new school

29 April 2026, 14:57 PM
After a Daily Star report highlighted his struggle, the eight-year-old secures full support at a Manikganj institution
29 April 2026, 14:57 PM
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Solar power shields farmers from energy crisis

28 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Rights activists noted that solar projects are highly important for increasing agricultural production
28 April 2026, 00:00 AM
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Solar power shields farmers from energy crisis

27 April 2026, 22:02 PM
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.”
27 April 2026, 22:02 PM
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Haribhanga mango orchards eye bumper yield

27 April 2026, 00:00 AM
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.
27 April 2026, 00:00 AM
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Hailstorm shatters hopes days before boro harvest in Teesta–Brahmaputra chars

26 April 2026, 13:07 PM
Extent of damage yet to be determined as farmers count losses in Lalmonirhat, Kurigram
26 April 2026, 13:07 PM
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Roumari upazila in Kurigram: Erosion devours 120 hectares of cropland

26 April 2026, 00:00 AM
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.
26 April 2026, 00:00 AM
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Teesta erosion: Part of dam caves in 10 months after repair

Some 150 families are in fear of losing their homesteads in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila as part of a flood protection dam across the Teesta collapsed.
13 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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Teesta bank erosion: 150 families in Lalmonirhat fear losing homes

Nearly 150 families who are residents of the riverbank area of Teesta in Khuniagachh village of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, are living in fear of losing homestead and cropland as a flood protection dam, which was renovated by Water Development Board (WDB) just 10 months ago, already collapsed.
13 May 2022, 09:48 AM
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Teesta shoal farmers fall on hard times for crop damages

Dhiren Chandra Barman, a 60-year-old farmer in Char Rajour in Lalmonirhat sadar upazila, nowadays passes sleepless nights after his paddy crop, on which he relies to feed his six-member family, was completely damaged because of an unseasonal flood. 
10 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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‘Officials come and go, bridge remains incomplete’

People of  Mogholhat  union in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila have been aggrieved over the authority’s failure to complete the bridge over the Ratnai river for a long time.
7 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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No colours in the chars on Eid

Mobarak Ali (67) is a farmer from Char Gobordhan area on the Teesta river bed in Lalmonirhat.
5 May 2022, 18:00 PM
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Illegal, yet in operation

Even though they were demolished by the authorities concerned more than a year ago, two illegal brick kilns have started operating again in Lalmonirhat.
30 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Toxic smoke from brick kilns damages crops

Farmers of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila and Kurigram’s Chilmari upazila are worried about their future.
25 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Death in custody: ‘Tortured on the spot’

Rabiul fell to the ground and lost consciousness after a policeman kicked him in the crotch around 10:00pm on Thursday night, said a man who claimed to be among those standing close to the scene.
17 April 2022, 18:00 PM
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Constructing house on mass-grave site: freedom fighters demand its removal

Freedom fighter Abdur Rahman said that the construction of the house will destroy the sanctity of the place. 
17 April 2022, 07:29 AM
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Still seems like a nightmare: NRB shares his Liberation War memories

“We were tied together with a few other locals and beaten mercilessly," said Parvez. "Right before our eyes, some were tortured and suffocated to death by the Pakistan army supporters and their bodies were dumped in an abandoned hole next to the high school," he said.
16 April 2022, 07:45 AM
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100 bighas of Boro paddy at risk in Lalmonirhat

Boro paddy on more than 100 bighas of land has remained submerged for several days in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat district due to obstruction of drainage through a canal.
15 April 2022, 05:42 AM
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Everyone cries at ‘Kannakatir Mela’

For five hours yesterday, a no mans’ land in Lalmonirhat was transformed into a witness of bittersweet, short-lived reunions.
30 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Potato farmers pleased with this year’s prices

While some farmers say that potato yields were low this year, most of them argue the opposite as they got the same output as they had in previous years.
29 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Tk 23cr washed back into rivers!

Over Tk 23 crore was spent only last year to excavate a 65-kilometre stretch of rivers and canals in five upazilas of Lalmonirhat. But most of the excavated earth, piled up on its side, has already made it back to the rivers and canals obstructing water flows.
16 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Get that tobacco out of here!

The long-running problem of drying and processing tobacco leaves on two school grounds in Lalmonirhat came to an end after a report was published in The Daily Star on Monday.
16 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Cotton growers in Rangpur beaming as prices rise

Cotton growers in the Rangpur region are elated thanks to the increase in the price of the key textile raw material buoyed by rising demand, which is expected to encourage the farmers to expand acreage by manifold in the coming years.
14 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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School ground turns tobacco drying field

More than 500 students and teachers of two government schools have been suffering immensely as local farmers dry and process tobacco leaves on their campus premises in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila.
13 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Lalmonirhat farmer receives power tiller, six cows following Daily Star photo

Just a few days ago, Zainal Mia (47), a farmer from Lalmonirhat’s Teesta-par, and his family were living in extreme poverty.
10 March 2022, 07:59 AM
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Burimari land port plagued by space shortage, tailbacks

The Burimari land port has long been suffering from space shortage and traffic congestion, preventing businesses from Bangladesh from elevating trade with India, Bhutan and Nepal as its capacity has not expanded in line with rising commerce.
5 March 2022, 18:00 PM
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Diesel costlier for char farmers in Chilmari

Farmers in char areas of Brahmaputra river in Chilmari upazila are spending Tk 83 for a litre diesel to irrigate their boro land instead of the government-fixed rate of Tk 80 enjoyed by mainland farmers.
23 February 2022, 18:00 PM

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