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Rangpur region / Continuous rain floods paddy, maize fields

1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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.
1 May 2026, 00:00 AM
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Fenced in: Rabidas family confined in own home over land dispute in Kurigram

30 April 2026, 21:32 PM
Bamboo fencing around the homestead has left the marginalised family struggling to move, work and send their children to school
30 April 2026, 21:32 PM
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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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Stone crushing pollutes air, poses health risk at Burimari

Rampant use of stone crushers is causing severe noise and air pollution in Lalmonirhat's Burimari land port area under Patgram upazila.
14 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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Use of children at tobacco farms

When other children of his age are at school, it was third grader Golam Rabbani's turn to tend plants at a field. His parents are growing tobacco in the field in Baje Majurai village of Mahendranagar union under Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila.
7 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Rural roads face threat

Rural roads face threat

Many rural roads under different upazilas of the district have been facing threat of collapse as local brick kiln owners continued removing the topsoil from roadside farmlands, using excavator machines.
5 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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Female cattle farmers struggle for solvency

A good number of women in char (landmass emerging from riverbed) areas of Teesta and Dharla rivers are now engaged in cattle rearing to bring solvency to their families.
4 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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Selfless service

A man from ultra-poor family has been working at BDR Gate in the town as a volunteer traffic signalman for over a decade for people's welfare.
31 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Lalmonirhat rice mills lie idle as govt's paddy purchase scanty

Following the government's decision to procure less rice from the local rice mills (chatal) this year than that of the previous years, most of the rice mills in the district are idle now.
27 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Bridge work on Ratnai river misses second deadline

Several thousand villagers of 10 ten villages under Mogholhat union in Sadar upazila have been suffering immensely as construction of a bridge on Ratnai river is yet to be completed.
24 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Farmers upset as paddy prices fall in Lalmonirhat

Farmers in the district are upset due to fall in prices of paddy in the local markets to below the production cost, and some of them have lost interest in cultivating paddy in future.
23 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Erosion checked at ex-enclave

Over 2000 families in former enclave Banshkata of Patgram upazila are now safe from the Dharla river erosion as river dredging and embankment protection works have been completed costing Tk 24.72 crore.
16 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Teesta, Dharla turn into canals

Twelve small rivers have already dried up and two major rivers -- Teesta and Dharla -- have been turned into canals in the district due to lack of water flow from upstream India.
10 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Cold paralyses life in Lalmonirhat

Normal life is being disrupted in Lalmonirhat as an intense cold wave is sweeping over and thick fog blanketing all five upazilas of the northern district.
5 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Shirina, a role model for female farmers

Housewife Shirina Begum, who set an example of producing bumper crops, especially vegetables, on a small land, has now become a role model for many female growers at her native Maynakuti village in Rangpur Sadar upazila.
3 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Farmlands lose fertile topsoil to brick fields in Lalmonirhat

The topsoil of vast areas of farmlands in the agriculture based northern district is being used for manufacturing bricks, which is having a harmful impact on agriculture and the environment.
3 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Stone lifting spree in Dharla river

A syndicate of influential people allegedly started lifting stone illegally from the Dharla river at four villages in Patgram upazila in the last week of November, threatening erosion by the river and damaging village roads by transporting stones on trucks.
1 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Voting in Lalmonirhat-3: First 3 hours peaceful, then come AL men

The first three hours were peaceful, even festive at times as people came in to cast their vote at the polling centres in the Lalmonirhat 3 constituency since early morning.
30 December 2018, 18:00 PM
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Lalmonirhat-3: No respite for BNP even before polls day

While BNP supporters remained out of the field even on the day before the national polls fearing arrest and police harassment in Lalmonirhat-3 constituency, Awami League activists were active with last moment electioneering in support of the Jatiya Party candidate.
29 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Voting in Lalmonirhat-3

The broken promises

Voters in char areas of Lalmonirhat seem to have lost hope as several promises regarding the area's development had been announced in previous elections over the decades but nothing was done in reality.
27 December 2018, 18:00 PM
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Schoolgirls fight child marriage in Teesta char

Incidents of child marriages have significantly reduced on remote Char Sindurna on the Teesta in Hatibandha upazila under the district, thanks to the efforts of 25 schoolgirls.
26 December 2018, 18:00 PM
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BNP wants to plant flag on JP stronghold

Though Lalmonirhat-3 has been a stronghold of the Jatiya Party, a partner in the Awami League-led grand alliance, since 1991, the Jatiya Oikyafront, led by the BNP and several other parties, is eyeing a win this time.
26 December 2018, 18:00 PM
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11 illegal brick fields on Lalmonirhat farmlands

Defying the law, 11 illegal brick kilns are being built on farmlands in three upazilas, posing a threat to agriculture and the environment.
25 December 2018, 18:00 PM

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