S Dilip Roy

Vegetable growers in Lalmonirhat are earning more than expected profits from selling their produces this season.

November 20, 1911 is the date of birth of Gazar Uddin as per his national ID. The affable gentleman, however, claims that he is 125 not 108.

Illegal felling of roadside green trees continues, allegedly by the auction winner for 1200 trees prior to renovation of Patgram-Dahagram road at Dahagram union in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila, much to the grievance of nearby villagers.

While Abu Hossain, a rickshaw-van puller by profession, is struggling to run his seven-member family with his meagre income, treatment of his 18-year-old mentally challenged son seems a dream for him.

Dahagram-Angarpota 10-bed Hospital on two acres of land has everything--a one-storied hospital building, staff quarters, garden, signboards and even patients.

Thousands of women work hand in hand with men at nearly 2,000 stone crushing plants around Burimari land port in Patgram upazila, but their daily wage remain far below than that of their male counterparts.

Burimari union, a border village nestling in a nook of the Indian district of Cooch Behar, is a village of stones and stone-crushing yards.

The structures built to facilitate tourism at the 82-acre Sal forest in Nawdabansh village in Lalmonirhat’s Hatibandha upazila have been lying unused for about five years now due to lack of necessary utility connections.

Thousands of people from the district leave home to work as brick kiln labourers in different areas of the country during the dry season from mid-October to April every year.

Local people have been suffering for the last seven years due to the awful state of the station road beside the district central mosque and Islamic Foundation office in the town.

Jute production in Lalmonirhat has decreased to less than one-third in the last two decades as low profitability of the cash crop discourages farmers.

Father of a rape victim in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila has filed a complaint with the deputy inspector general of police in Rangpur alleging that a sub-inspector had forced his family to marry off their daughter with a man who raped her.

About three decades ago, Lokman Ali of Baroghariya Adarshapara village in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila had lost his land and other

An audit report has found serious anomalies regarding spending of fund of Nechhariya Kamil Madrasa at Sadar Hospital Road in

Import and export businessmen as well as locals are badly suffering due to awful condition of the three-kilometre road under the

The Lalmonirhat Airport, abandoned since World War II, is set to be transformed into Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Aviation and Aerospace University (BSMRAAU), the first of its kind in the country.

Garbage cans haphazardly placed across Lalmonirhat town have become a nuisance for its residents.

The Teesta River, originating in the Himalayas, travels a long way through the mountains and plain land before reaching Bangladesh.

The flood affected victims of Lalmonirhat have very little to look forward to this Eid. Many have lost their homes and source of income and are struggling to make ends meet.

Poor people living in different remote char areas along the Teesta river in Lalmonirhat have sought help to build houses on raised lands as 16 homesteads made above the flood level at Char Sindurna in Hatibandha upazila provided shelter to the affected people during the recent floods.