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Rangpur region / Continuous rain floods paddy, maize fields

4 hour(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.
4 hour(s) ago
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Fenced in: Rabidas family confined in own home over land dispute in Kurigram

7 hour(s) ago
Bamboo fencing around the homestead has left the marginalised family struggling to move, work and send their children to school
7 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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Journalist assaulted by BGB members

BGB men led by a camp commander allegedly assaulted a reporter in Lalmonirhat Thursday night and accused him of possessing illegal drugs in a case filed with Sadar Police Station.
16 April 2021, 18:00 PM
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Dozen mass graves in Lalmonirhat lie neglected

April 5, 1971 is a black day that lives on in the memory of survivors and the Liberation War generation of Lalmonirhat.
4 April 2021, 18:00 PM
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Seed production brings solvency to farmers

Many farmers in Rangpur’s Lalmonirhat Sadar and Aditamari upazila have turned to vegetable seed cultivation after being left unsatisfied by the prevailing prices of food grains.
30 March 2021, 18:00 PM
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Son of martyred freedom fighter awaits allowance in despair

“My father Bocharam Das is a martyred freedom fighter, recognised by the government. But we are not getting any facilities given to the martyred freedom fighter’s family by the government,” said Monaram Das, 51, son of the martyred freedom fighter.
24 March 2021, 18:00 PM
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While registering for the vaccine, Lakhikanta found out that he was dead

Lakhikanta Rai, a school teacher, is alive and well. He wants to register for the Covid-19 vaccine but the portal won't accept his registration. When he arrived at the Upazila Election Commission to seek help, he learned that he has been listed dead on the voter list since June 3, 2014.
15 March 2021, 14:12 PM
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Dragon fruit gleams prospect in Lalmonirhat

Lalmonirhat’s first commercial dragon fruit grower Abu Taleb hopes to make around Tk 15 lakh in profit this year.
14 March 2021, 18:00 PM
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Visually impaired students making jute handicrafts

Visually impaired students of Lalmonirhat are deftly crafting jute products. They are earning money from making handicrafts while continuing their studies.
6 March 2021, 11:39 AM
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Sand trading in guise of canal excavation?

Allegations of plundering of public money surfaced in the re-excavation work of Ratnai canal in Aditmari upazila.
7 February 2021, 18:00 PM
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Livelihood of 2,000 Kurigram fishermen in jeopardy

Sixty-year-old Lalchand Das lives on fishing in the Chakirpasha river of Kurigram’s Rajarhat upazila. Like him, 2000 people from 420 fishing families have been making a living by fishing in the river for years.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM
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The karate sisters

At a time when the public conscience is gripped by fears over women’s security, three sisters from a remote village in Lalmonirhat decided to take up matters in their own hands.
15 January 2021, 18:00 PM
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‘Hazol’ method brings benefit to char people

Earthen pot ‘Hazol’, a technology used for hatching chicken eggs, has become very popular in the char areas of Brahmaputra, Dudhkumar, Teesta and Dharla rivers in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat.
16 December 2020, 18:00 PM
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Martyrs who still remain unrecognised

It was time to rebel. It was time to revolt. It was 1971.
15 December 2020, 18:00 PM
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The ‘Birangona’ we never knew

It was a Saturday noon in 1971 when Jahiron Bewa’s world came tumbling down.
2 December 2020, 18:00 PM
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Costly staple hurting low-income people

The average day-labourers in Lalmonirhat are struggling to make ends meet as rice prices in the district’s local markets are refusing to come down although Aman harvests are ongoing in full swing.
21 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Mentally challenged widow cheated in name of exchanging land

A mentally challenged widow has been cheated in the name of exchanging land in Kaliganj upazila of the district. Hailing from Shialkhowa Bazar area, Baulo Bala, 48, wife of late Gouranga Chandra, is now crying for justice.
14 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Jewel’s Murder: 2 more held, 3 confess

Police yesterday arrested two more people on charges of lynching and setting fire to Shahidunnabi Jewel in Patgram, Lalmonirhat last month.
9 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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Murder of Jewel: Four more suspects held

Police yesterday arrested four more suspects on charges of lynching and setting fire to Shahidunnabi Jewel, 50, in Patgram, Lalmonirhat.
8 November 2020, 18:00 PM
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The mosque of harmony

The Partition in 1947 could not keep them apart.
17 October 2020, 18:00 PM
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Giving it all for a dream

Her strength is evident in her belief, her past, present and her dreams for the future. Fighting social norms, martial artist Santwana Rani Roy, 36, has made herself a fine example for women and girls of the country to live up to.
24 September 2020, 18:00 PM
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Man buys elephant to fulfill wife’s ‘divine dream’

In a rare incident, a farmer from Ratidhar Dewti village of Lalmonirhat has bought an elephant worth Tk 16.5 lakh in order to obey “divine instructions received by his wife in her dreams”.
22 September 2020, 18:00 PM

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