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
Over 50,000 people marooned in Teesta and Dharla shoals in Lalmonirhat
Around 50,000 people in five upazilas in Lalmonirhat have been marooned as the Teesta and Dharla rivers swelled above danger levels yesterday evening.
22 July 2020
Pregnant women in Kurigram flood shelters at high risk
Pregnant women in the flood-hit areas of Kurigram who have left home and taken shelter on the government roads, dykes built by the Water Development Board and railway lines are facing health risks.
20 July 2020
Plight of long-time volunteers at Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital
As many as 36 men and women, working as voluntary staff at Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital for years, are passing days amid hardship as the authorities are yet to put them on the regular payroll.
18 May 2020
61 Indian truckers stranded at Burimari land port for weeks
It has been more than two weeks when they came to Bangladesh’s Burimari land port in Patgram with their trucks carrying jute seeds imported from India. But 61 drivers of the vehicles from that country are still stranded there.
20 April 2020
Illegal structures on govt canal
A local Awami League (AL) leader is building illegal structures, filling up about 20 decimals of land of a government canal at Kartimari Haat, a village market in Jadur Char union under Kurigram’s Roumari upazila.
16 April 2020
Stone-Crushing Workers in Lalmonirhat: Silicosis death toll rising
The stone-crushing workers in Patgram upazila are left to suffer as most are too poor to afford treatment for an irreversible lung disease silicosis which is their occupational hazard.
30 March 2020
Poverty never derails ‘Dotara Pagol’ Suklal Roy
Suklal Roy, 37, is known as Dotara Pagol in his village, where the residents are in awe of his skills with the instrument. The artiste lives in the village Kalisthan of Kamlabari union, at Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat.
25 March 2020
Livelihood of fishermen under threat
Hundreds of fishermen in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat are going through hard times as fish stocks in the Brahmaputra and Teesta rivers have drastically decreased over the years.
25 March 2020
Earning a living with an exceptional memory
Mizanur Rahman, a youth living on a char on Brahmaputra River in Kurigram, is visually challenged since birth, but that did not prevent him from earning a living.
13 March 2020
Ferdousi: A torchbearer of education
Paschim Barua village used to be pervaded by some typical social ills -- superstition, child marriage, and child labour. A remote village of 20,000 people in Kulaghat union of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, it has now been transformed by education.
11 March 2020
Coronavirus deals blow to scrap plastic industry
The coronavirus epidemic in China has adversely impacted the scrap plastic industry in Lalmonirhat, a northern border district of Bangladesh, as local merchants now find it difficult to offload their stocks.
17 February 2020
The Daily Star Awardee: Lighting the way
In Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila, Abdur Rashid, a farmer, felt the need to do something for the children with special needs, who are often neglected by society.
12 February 2020
Barbershop with library!
People generally go to libraries seeking information and knowledge, and sometimes for leisure. But what if you could catch up on reading while waiting for a haircut?
4 February 2020
No bribe, no paddy procurement
Each farmer, whose name was drawn in lottery, will get a chance to sell one tonne of paddy to the government at Tk 26 per kg rate. But it has been alleged that the growers cannot sell their paddy without paying bribes to warehouse officers and labourers.
22 January 2020
Farming with compost pays off
Atul Chandra Roy of Durakuti village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila has earned the reputation of an ‘ideal vegetable farmer’ in the area, thanks to his use of organic method for cultiavtion.
19 January 2020
Healing with herbs
The use of herbal medicines is providing comfort and relief to the people of Goral, a remote village in Lalmonirhat, and other adjacent villages, thanks to the passion of a schoolteacher for herbalism and his commitment to treat people for free.
18 January 2020
Carpeting of newly renovated road damaged
The carpeting of newly renovated five-kilometre Mohiskhocha-Burirhat road in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila is getting damaged as the work under Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) was done allegedly without doing sufficient strengthening work.
16 January 2020
Paddy prices dip Tk 100 in Aditmari
Rice growers in Lalmonirhat are feeling distressed after paddy prices in Aditmari, one of five upazilas in the district, fell below their average cost of production in a span of only two weeks.
15 January 2020
Mesmerising tunes to inspire them
A physically challenged youth in the remote Haziganj Bhatitari village of Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat is using music to inspire children in his village.
11 January 2020
Now aware, they take medical services for delivery
Two years back, the people of Sindurna Char, a remote locality in Teesta river basin area of Lalmonirhat’s Hatibandha upazila were hardly aware of modern healthcare including institutional delivery.
6 January 2020