Chained for a year
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.
13 November 2019, 18:00 PM
A health centre without regular health service
Dahagram-Angarpota 10-bed Hospital on two acres of land has everything--a one-storied hospital building, staff quarters, garden, signboards and even patients.
12 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Female workers denied equal pay
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.
31 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Stone- Crushers Dying of silicosis, failed by courts
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.
24 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Amenities elude tourists, set-ups decaying amid neglect
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.
23 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Thousands leave home for seasonal work
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.
16 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Blame game bars road renovation work
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.
8 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Jute farming in serious decline
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.
5 October 2019, 18:00 PM
SI ‘forced marriage of rapist, victim’
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.
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
A resolute champion of education
About three decades ago, Lokman Ali of Baroghariya Adarshapara village in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila had lost his land and other
18 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Audit finds fund embezzlement by madrasa principal
An audit report has found serious anomalies regarding spending of fund of Nechhariya Kamil Madrasa at Sadar Hospital Road in
9 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Traders, commuters suffer due to awful road
Import and export businessmen as well as locals are badly suffering due to awful condition of the three-kilometre road under the
27 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Country’s first aviation univ will be in Lalmonirhat
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.
25 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Mindless garbage disposal brings woe to townspeople
Garbage cans haphazardly placed across Lalmonirhat town have become a nuisance for its residents.
20 August 2019, 18:00 PM
The Story of Teesta
The Teesta River, originating in the Himalayas, travels a long way through the mountains and plain land before reaching Bangladesh.
17 August 2019, 12:36 PM
Lalmonirhat flood victims struggle to make ends meet
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.
11 August 2019, 14:20 PM
Teesta char people want houses on raised land
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.
8 August 2019, 18:00 PM
No bribe, no honorarium for teachers
Thirty-five teachers in Lalmonirhat’s Hatibandha upazila have complained that they were under pressure to bribe the authorities in order to receive their dues for working under a literacy programme of the government that ended over a month ago.
7 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Local fishes depleting in Lalmonirhat
Local varieties of fishes are facing extinction amid disappearance of waterbodies and spread of fast growing hybrid fish cultivation in Lalmonirhat.
4 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Life chained to nature’s wrath
It’s Friday afternoon. She lost everything to the river before her eyes. It was not the first time. The flood victim’s life has been chained to the wrath of nature for years.
20 July 2019, 18:00 PM