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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

Peddlers pledge to check drugs

The drug peddlers, who surrendered to police in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila on Tuesday, pledged to refrain from taking, carrying and
24 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Razzak, an inspiring tree lover

A youth of Hatibandha upazila of the district has been planting trees to save the green world since his school life.
24 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Villagers guard grave to protect slain farmer's body

Villagers have been guarding the grave of slain farmer Shafiqul Islam from Sunday night for fear that the body may be taken away by the killers.
23 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Flood-affected people decline Jamaat's help

In a gesture of aversion to Jamaat-e-Islami's politics, the people of Teesta River basin village Thangjhara in Saniazan union of
17 August 2016, 18:00 PM
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Growers happy over bumper aus production in Lalmonirhat

Farmers are happy following the bumper production of aus paddy this season in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila this season while an acute
15 August 2016, 18:00 PM
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Croplands turn into fish farms

A number of farmers in the district are using their lands for fish cultivation as they are losing their interest in paddy farming due to low prices.
10 August 2016, 18:00 PM
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Jute retting pollutes rivers, canals, ponds

Many water bodies like rivers, canals and ponds are becoming polluted due to retting of jute plants in these water bodies as ribbon retting, a method for retting the plants with less water, is yet to gain popularity in the district.
2 August 2016, 18:00 PM
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They return, happy with Bangladeshi generosity

Around 4,000 flood-affected people from India, who took shelter in villages along the Lalmonirhat border on Sunday
28 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Lalmonirhat-Burimari road turns risky for traffic

Lalmonirhat-Burimari national highway has become risky for traffic movement due to the many potholes that have developed at different points on the road.
27 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Schooling eludes Bede children in Lalmonirhat

Almost all the children of the Bede (gypsy) community in Lalmonirhat are deprived of education due to absence of awareness among their guardians and lack of proper facilities. Instead of sending them to school, the parents teach the children magic tricks to earn money.
20 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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So close, yet so far

This distance of just about six feet between them seems painfully huge. And agonising, too. When they come to see each other here as two bamboo fences separate them, they know they are so close and yet so far.
18 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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50 thousand marooned as Teesta crosses danger level

Around 50 thousand people were marooned in 80 villages of 16 unions under the district as the low-lying char lands of Teesta and
17 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Risky journey on weak Bailey bridge

The Bailey bridge over the river Swarnamoti on Lalmonirhat-Burimari Highway is on the verge of collapsing at Sarpukur area under
14 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Cattle farmers in trouble as flood damages fodder

“I had to sell three of my six cows for low prices in the local market on Sunday as the recent flood damaged all the grasses at fields,
11 July 2016, 18:00 PM

Eid returnees suffer

Thousands of people returning to their workplaces after spending Eid holidays in their villages are suffering in Lalmonirhat railway
10 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Listing of voters begins

Listing of voters in 111 former Indian enclaves under Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Nilphamari and Panchagarh districts began yesterday,
10 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Malnutrition hits poor children in Lalmonirhat

Many children in the district do not attain normal physical and mental growth due to severe malnutrition.
4 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Adulterated spices flood Lalmonirhat markets

Adulterated spices, especially powdered spices, have flooded the markets in Lalmonirhat ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.
2 July 2016, 18:00 PM
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Poor man with a heart of gold

He could study only up to class-III as his parents were very hard up.
29 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Gamblers rule village

A village cop (Gram Police) was assaulted allegedly by gamblers as he protested against open gambling at Ketkibari village in Nawdabansh union under Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat on Tuesday night.
29 June 2016, 18:00 PM

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