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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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Urea fertiliser under open sky

A huge quantity of urea fertiliser has been stored in the open in front of the buffer godown (warehouse) at Mahendranagar in Sadar
24 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Cold, fog damage Boro seedlings

Prolonged cold spell and dense fog in the district has damaged a large portion of Boro seedlings in seedbeds and many more are
18 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Earthen approach roads the woe

People's suffering has worsened as the bridge over the Swarnamoti river was opened to traffic in September last year without completion of the approach roads.
17 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Cultural heritage still under threat

The authorities of Bangladesh Railway as well as the cultural-minded people are worried about protection of cultural heritage MT
14 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Mobile, source of their livelihood

Two siblings, who are visually impaired by birth, are earning their livelihood through using mobile technology at Teesta river char
11 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Bolt from the blue

Receiving the notice from Water Development Board (WDB) to free the embankment was like a bolt from the blue, said landless Azizul Islam.
10 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Ailing comrade Shamsul seeks help

A seriously ill Language Movement hero and freedom fighter of the town has appealed to the prime minister and kind hearted people to
10 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Illegal sand lifting from Teesta bed unabated

Illegal sand lifting from the beds of Teesta, Dharla, Ratnai and Saniyazan rivers continues unabated at 50 points in five upazilas of the
4 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Historic theatre at risk of eviction

Regular patrons of cultural events, along with performers in Lalmonirhat town, are in anguish over the likely loss of the historic theatre
3 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Rain-damaged ground deprives kids of sport

As at any government primary school, many of the 208 students of the school in Balapukur village in Lalmonirhat's Aditmari upazila are
24 December 2017, 18:00 PM
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Expert paddy seed farmer

If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well. It's a saying that farmer Jatindranath Barmon Jatin, 70, from Batrishazari village in
20 December 2017, 18:00 PM
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Plea for bridges

At least 10,000 villagers in Sadar and Aditmari upazilas of the district have been suffering due to lack of concrete bridges over Ratnai,
14 December 2017, 18:00 PM
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Survivors of '71 massacre

Two siblings, who survived bullet injuries after a brutal massacre by the Pakistan occupation force in the town during the 1971
12 December 2017, 18:00 PM
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Hindu widow cries for justice

A hapless Hindu widow is passing hard days at a hut on another perosn's land, failing to get back her ancestral land from a land
12 December 2017, 18:00 PM
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13 mass killing grounds lie neglected

Thirteen mass killing grounds of the Pakistan occupation army during the Liberation War in 1971 here are lying neglected after over
11 December 2017, 18:00 PM
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Indiscriminate use of pesticides on winter vegtables

Farmers in the district are using more pesticides than necessary on winter vegetables as most of them do not know how much to use
7 December 2017, 18:00 PM
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DREAMS FOR ALL

At the Visually-impaired Rehabilitation Centre in Haribhanga area of Lalmonirhat town twenty children from struggling families are given the chance to dream.
5 December 2017, 18:00 PM
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Post-flood spinach brightens farmers

Lalmonirhat farmers are riding high this winter on the back of healthy market rates for spinach. Spinach varieties including lal shak,
27 November 2017, 18:00 PM
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10 Lalmonirhat bridges without approach roads

Ten bridges, constructed over canals and small rivers at different villages in four upazilas under the district one to four years ago, are
21 November 2017, 18:00 PM
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House of knowledge

A few years ago when Jamal Hossain, from Tiparbazar village in Lalmonirhat's Aditmari upazila, was a student of class 10, he wanted to enter a literature competition. He hoped to recite a Nirmalendu Goon poem for Brac's Taray Taray Deepshika programme in Dhaka.
21 November 2017, 18:00 PM

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