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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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Rezia's fight against early marriage

Defying mother's bid to marry her off, 15-year-old Rezia has been continuing studies from her grandmother's house in Aditmari
27 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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Mint and herbs help bring solvency

The parcel of land required for a cottage garden may be small, but as enterprising Lalmonirhat villager Anowara Begum, 44, from Karnopur village in Sadar upazila has discovered, the reward for growing herbs and vegetables in such a plot can be large.
15 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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A dying hospital

A couple of weeks ago, Dhanful Begum, a long-time asthma patient, had a sudden attack at her home in Dahagram of Lalmonirhat's Patgram upazila. Unfortunately, she had run out of inhaler and her condition deteriorated fast.
15 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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Reducing Pollution: Plastic bottle house holds promises

A house being built with discarded plastic bottles in the northern border district of Lalmonirhat might be the first of its kind in the country.
10 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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Will her dream come true?

Amid smiling villagers congratulating her for achieving 'golden' GPA-5 in the SSC examinations, Akhimoni Akhter remains calm, thinking about the finances for her higher education.
6 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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Yoke on shoulder for Tk 200 a day

Believe it or not, some farm labourers do the arduous task of pulling yoke on their shoulders to plough the land for a meagre daily wage of Tk 200.
3 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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Banglar Nani gets new cycle, mobile

Jahiron Bewa, who has continued providing free healthcare services to rural people at a ripe old age of 90, yesterday got a new bicycle
2 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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Rain upsets vegetable seed growers

Untimely and incessant rain throughout this month is worrying vegetable seed producers in two upazilas as their seedbeds are being
27 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Change Makers: UNSTOPPABLE

In the villages of Lalmonirhat's Aditmari upazila the sight of a jolly, very elderly woman moving about house to house on a bicycle, from morning into the afternoon, isn't unusual.
22 April 2017, 18:00 PM

Priority to cattle smugglers!

Farmers of Dahagram-Angorpota in Patgram upazila have no free access to take their cattle through the Tinbigha corridor to mainland
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Fairy floss a favourite

In Lalmonirhat and across the country, no village fair can truly be complete without stalls selling fairy floss, the sweet called hawai
18 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Livelihood on collecting oyster

Collecting oysters from the Sati and Ratna rivers in the district is a means of earning a livelihood for ultra poor women in three
18 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Greedy son's brutality on mother

When a festive mood prevailed in the area on the morning of Bangla New Year Pahela Baishakh, an elderly woman was seen crying
15 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Bricks smaller than standard size!

Smaller bricks are being manufactured in several brick kilns in the district, defying the government manual.
13 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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No protection from deadly silicosis

In the Burimari land port area of Lalmonirhat's Patgram upazila there are around thirty limestone grinding factories producing lime
11 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Police action makes Swapon's HSC exams uncertain

A Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinee in Patgram upazila is facing uncertainty about attending the examinations starting today as he has been sent to jail, after being shown arrested in a cow stealing case filed over three months ago.
1 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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No Man's Land : Tea farming in Indian side

Hazrat Ali of bordering Patgram upazila under the district often observes tea plantations in no-man's land area on the other side of
30 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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Stone lifting makes 3 rivers dry

Illegal stone lifting with dredgers was stopped in June last year, but vast areas of arable lands in Patgram upazila of the district had
28 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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Under-construction road collapses in Lalmonirhat

A road being rebuilt under the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) in Sadar upazila is breaking down in some places,
27 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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Stone dust a health risk at Burimari

Due to thick cloud of stone dust from the stone crushing machines, people of Lalmonirhat's Burimari Land Port area are facing serious health hazards.
25 March 2017, 18:00 PM

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