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
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
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
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
The mosque of harmony
The Partition in 1947 could not keep them apart.
17 October 2020
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
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
Lalmonirhat farmer buys elephant following wife’s 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
Centuries-old building turned into land research museum
A centuries-old building (kachari-ghar), which is locally known as Maharajar Kachari-ghar of Cooch Behar, has been turned into land research museum.
13 September 2020
A beacon with books for all
A schoolboy who started a library in his village with only 10 books back in 2014 now supplies books to 30 salon-based mini-libraries in two upazilas with money earned from part-time jobs.
12 September 2020
Hydroponics grass could be the answer to Kurigram’s fodder crisis
At least twenty women from Kurigram’s Sadar, Ulipur, Chilmari and Rajarhat upazilas have been using hydroponics method to grow grass for the last month. Many farmers are also crowding around to see this way of growing grass without soil or land.
11 September 2020
Tale of river island cowboys
Bangladesh is home to various cattle breeds but the tale of the struggles of cowboys, especially those hailing from the riverine chars, often goes unheard.
29 August 2020
Kurigram-3 AL MP defiant as locals, mayor oppose his beautification project
Locals of Ulipur upazila in Kurigram have expressed mixed reactions over the construction of a bridge -- Swadhinata Setu -- over the age old Swarnamayee Sarovar (lake) in the upazila.
25 August 2020
1,500 trainee artisans await promised govt grant
Eight months have passed since 1,500 artisans from different marginal communities in Lalmonirhat took part in a government-run training programme. But they are yet to receive their financial assistance as promised.
23 August 2020
Traders stopped import-export business protesting double parking charges in Burimari land port
Trade through the Burimari land port in Lalmonirhat has remained suspended since yesterday centring protests over a sudden doubling of parking fees, which the port officials denied bringing about.
22 August 2020
Move to build bridge over century-old pond for beautification
The initiative to construct a bridge over ‘Swarnamoyee Sarobar’, a two-century-old pond in Ulipur upazila town under Kurigram, has given rise to protest by a section of locals.
19 August 2020
Teesta erosion: A village in Lalmonirhat erased from the map
Even two days before the Eid-ul-Azha, Singimari village existed in the shoal area of Teesta River, where 385 families resided. Now, the village is no more, as the river devoured the entire village in a matter of days, erasing it from the map.
15 August 2020
Covid-infected nurse attending patients ‘under pressure’ from authorities
As bizarre as it may sound, a Covid positive nurse has been discharging duties at the children ward of Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital for about a week allegedly due to the pressure from the hospital authorities.
14 August 2020
No scope to study in shelters: Flood-hit children lagging behind
"When will we return home, mother?’ eight-year-old Rabbi Islam, a second-grader, asks his mother. “I can’t read here, I want to go home so I can study,’ he says.
30 July 2020
Lalmonirhat SI threatens “crossfire”, extorts Tk 19 lakh from ‘drug dealer’
Selim Reza Chowdhury, a sub-inspector (SI) of Aditmari Police Station in Lalmonirhat, extorts Tk 18.90 lakh from an alleged drug smuggler, after threatening to “put him in a crossfire”.
29 July 2020
No smiles this Eid for people in flood-hit Kurigram, Lalmonirhat
Nearly four lakh people in the flood affected regions of Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts will be spending Eid-ul-Azha in despair this year.
29 July 2020