S Dilip Roy

For the first time since independence, the Hindu community of Mahishkhocha village in Lalmonirhat's Aditmari upazila yesterday set foot in restaurants and tea stalls at the local bazaar and tasted the food and drink.

Vast tracts of farmland in different villages under Patgram upazila of the district are turning sandy and unfit for

Jahangir Sarker could have been just another unemployed postgraduate the country has so many of. But the zeal within the

Cultivation of bitter gourd in Lalmonirhat has increased from last year as farmers are earning good profits from selling high-yield

Smugglers in border areas of Lalmonirhat and Kurigram districts are hiring old people to transport contraband drugs.

Maize has been cultivated on large areas of land at five upazilas in Lalmonirhat this year, exceeding the target set by the Department of

Although she is not a doctor by profession, villagers of Gotmari in Lalmonirhat lovingly call her “Dakter Apa”.

Women labourers are preferred for the arduous work of breaking stones in Patgram upazila under the district as they can be exploited,

Farmers in three Lalmonirhat upazilas are pleased with a bumper pumpkin crop grown on uninhabited chars of the Teesta River. This profitable cultivation has the potential to significantly improve the lot of the impoverished local farmers.

Potato growers in the district are happy to get good yield and fair prices of the item this season.

In Lalmonirhat, over a thousand growers of jujube, a small fruit known locally as boroi, are upset over the low prices of the fruit this year. They have to sell the produce for less than the production cost in the local market, resulting in their losing interest in farming the fruit in future, growers said.

A huge quantity of urea fertiliser stored in the open in front of the Mahendranagar Warehouse in Lalmonirhat sadar upazila is at risk of being lost due to rainfall.

A physically challenged man with sound higher education in Lalmonirhat returned all his academic certificates to the government yesterday.

Boro sapling markets in the district see much less than expected buyers during the ongoing peak cultivation season as farmers are

Some influential local bigots had always stopped others from setting up a Shaheed Minar in Durakuti village of Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat.

A newly married housewife was tortured by her mother in-law and other members of the family, allegedly for dowry, at Karnapur village

Having no use of any hands since birth and being born in an ultra poor family would probably kill off any aspirations one might have. Not Arifa Akhter though.

She is unable to do anything with her hands since her birth. But it could never stop Arifa Akhter from pursuing her dreams. Defying all predicaments, the indomitable Lalmonirhat girl sits for her Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations. She became the subject of curiosity as she started writing with her legs.

Construction of the 850-metre-long Second Teesta Bridge over the river in Kaliganj of Lalmonirhat is yet to be completed even though a deadline for its completion expired in June last year.

Huge quantities of rejected oranges illegally brought from Bhutan and India see open sale in Burimari land port area of Patgram upazila under the district, posing risk to the consumers.