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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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Bumper mustard yield likely

Many farmers in the district have started growing mustard as its production cost is less and there is no need for irrigation.
8 February 2017, 18:00 PM
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Bamboo crafts on decline

Only five years ago, around 900 craftsmen in six villages under the district were involved in producing items made of bamboo, but
24 January 2017, 18:00 PM
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Second Teesta bridge misses deadline again

Construction of the Second Teesta Bridge in the district is yet to be completed even though the second deadline for its completion
24 January 2017, 18:00 PM
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Rats' deposit their seasonal earning

During the harvesting period, a good number of people, especially kids from ultra poor families, are seen moving in fields in search of rat holes to dig out paddy deposited by the rodents.
4 January 2017, 18:00 PM
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Ecology, livelihood under threat as Teesta loses flow

Once mighty Teesta river has turned into a thin flow at the beginning of the dry season, thanks withdrawal to water
29 December 2016, 18:00 PM
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Teacher couple's success in mandarin farming

A couple in a remote village under Hatibandha upazila has successfully grown mandarin for the first time in the district.
25 December 2016, 18:00 PM
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Tortured FF in hospital, family under open sky

Injured and ousted from home by land grabbers two weeks ago, freedom fighter Farid Uddin is still reeling from the
24 December 2016, 18:00 PM
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Poverty drives kids to bidi factory in Lalmonirhat

Sumi Akhter, 10, read up to Class II, but she could not continue going to school as her parents put her to work in a bidi factory at
22 December 2016, 18:00 PM
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Shoddy construction makes U-drains vulnerable

The cracks that developed due to use of poor quality materials during construction of twelve U-drains and a box-culvert in a former
7 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Labourers resume work as wage rises

Following rise in wage, the workers at Burimari land port in the district resumed work yesterday, ending the two-day strike they had
5 December 2016, 18:00 PM
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Horrors of '71 still haunt war heroine Ganobala

War heroine Ganobala breaks into tears when she recalls the horrible days of torture on her by the Pakistani soldiers during the War of Liberation.
1 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Farmers happy, labourers upset

Farmers are happy but farm labourers are very upset over the use of mobile paddy threshers in the district.
29 November 2016, 18:00 PM
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Growers, consumers at risk

Indiscriminate spraying of pesticides in crop fields, especially those used for vegetable cultivation, poses serious health hazards for both the farmers and consumers across the district.
23 November 2016, 18:00 PM
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Market on school premises

Academic activities are being hampered in Durakuti Government Primary School at Durakuti village under Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila as a market is set up in front of the school on Saturday and Tuesday every week for the last two years.
17 November 2016, 18:00 PM
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Afforestation on unused land

Farmers in many villages of the district have started planting trees on their unused lands as it would earn money by
13 November 2016, 18:00 PM
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Beacon for children's education

Children of a remote village in Aditmari upazila under the district are getting quality lessons along with moral education, thanks to the benevolent service of a spiritually devoted couple.
10 November 2016, 18:00 PM
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100 illegal banas in Sati river for fishing

Around 100 illegal banas (bamboo-made fence) for catching fish have been set up on a 50-km-long stretch of the Sati river in different areas under Aditmari and Kaliganj upazilas of the district.
10 November 2016, 18:00 PM
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Tobacco-dust factory causes havoc

On the roadside in Gandhomaruya village in Durgapur union of Lalmonirhat's Aditmari upazila is the curious site of a tobacco dust
3 November 2016, 18:00 PM
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Bumper aman yield despite flood

Farmers in the char areas of the Teesta and Dharla rivers are happy as they are getting bumper production from flood-
31 October 2016, 18:00 PM
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Dream to vote first time

Turi Bewa, 75, a resident of former enclave Bhitorkuti of Kulaghat union in Lalmonirhat Sadar, is happy as her dream to enjoy the taste
29 October 2016, 18:00 PM

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