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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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Farmers' future bleak

Selim Miah, 48, a vegetable grower at Baparitari village in Mogholhat under Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila was seen in deep thought beside
27 October 2016, 18:00 PM
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Homestead vegetable farming changes char women's lives

Growing vegetables in their homesteads has brought good fortune to the distressed and landless women living in
25 October 2016, 18:00 PM

Embezzlement of school fund alleged

Most of the Tk 3.24 crore allocated under School Level Improvement Plan (SLIP) for 732 government primary schools
24 October 2016, 18:00 PM
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Bird poachers make quick buck as actions rare

Illegal catching and sale of birds especially parrots, goes on under the nose of the authorities concerned in Lalmonirhat.
13 October 2016, 18:00 PM
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Business suffers as road in sorry state

The five and a half kilometre road from the district headquarters to Mahendranagar-Borobari has been in awful
10 October 2016, 18:00 PM

Rain disrupts normal life in Lalmonirhat

Daylong rain disrupted normal life in the district yesterday, preventing people from going to the temples on the occasion of Durga Puja,
9 October 2016, 18:00 PM
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Robidas gets back his land, finally

Al last Premchand Robidas of Goalpara village in Aditmari upazila under the district has got back his 35 decimals of arable land from a
9 October 2016, 18:00 PM
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Bhabani Sen's land still in grip of grabbers

Bhabani Kanta Sen along with his wife, two sons and elderly mother are passing a hard time as their land is under the control of illegal
6 October 2016, 18:00 PM

Union parishad polls enthuse former enclave people

The people of a former enclave are happy as they will exercise their right to vote for the first time in nine union parishads (UP) of the
29 September 2016, 18:00 PM
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'Profitable' eucalyptus an ultimate loss

A section of farmers in the district cultivate eucalyptus trees around their crop fields to earn good profit, ignoring the long-term
29 September 2016, 18:00 PM
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Tidy profit from bottle gourd

Favourable weather, quality seeds and bumper production: for Lalmonirhat's farmers of calabash, the vegetable also called
28 September 2016, 18:00 PM
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Hindu family under threat

Premchand Robidas and his family in Aditmari upazila of the district are passing worrying time amid threat by a local tout who got their
25 September 2016, 18:00 PM
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Joy of Eid elusive to char people

Eid-ul-Azha this year will hardly bring any joy for about two lakh people in the Teesta and Dharla river basin char
10 September 2016, 18:00 PM
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Maleka makes it successful

Maleka Begum, hailing from a remote village in the district, has now become a symbol of success, thanks to her ability to think out of
8 September 2016, 18:00 PM
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Challenged Aminul fights for survival

A hearing and speech impaired man with other physical challenges is struggling to survive with family by selling newspapers at
6 September 2016, 18:00 PM
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Cow theft rampant

Cattle lifting has increased in the district ahead of Eid Ul-Azha, forcing farmers to guard their cattle during the night.
4 September 2016, 18:00 PM
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700 rly quarters under illegal occupation

At least 700 of 1050 railway staff quarters under Lalmonirhat Railway Division of West Zone Railway went under
3 September 2016, 18:00 PM
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Bailey bridge at risk of collapse in Lalmonirhat

The Bailey bridge over Swarnamati River on Lalmonirhat-Burimari Highway at Sarpukur village at Aditmari upazila of the district may
1 September 2016, 18:00 PM
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Indian cattle trade in syndicate's grip

An organised syndicate controls 10 markets selling Indian cattle in border areas of the district, thanks to the lax vigilance of Border
27 August 2016, 18:00 PM
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Children suffer most

Children affected with different diseases due to fluctuation of temperature are being admitted in large numbers to Lalmonirhat Sadar
25 August 2016, 18:00 PM

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