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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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Teesta-Dharla erosion devours 8 unions

Jesmina Begum, 48, was crying as their homestead with ten decimals of land at Dawabari village under Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat was devoured by the Teesta River on Tuesday afternoon. Their six bighas of croplands were devoured in the last two weeks.
29 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Vegetable price fall frustrates farmers

Surprisingly this Ramadan the prices of various types of vegetables dropped sharply in the local kitchen markets due to poor demand
28 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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The little family with big dreams

In Bangladesh, people affected with dwarfism are often mocked and the disability is considered limitation and the affected are treated as burden. But this is not one of those stories.
19 June 2016, 11:22 AM
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Dharla continues to devour homesteads, farmlands

Around 100 homesteads, 150 bighas of farmland and fruit orchards have been devoured by the Dharla River in
16 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Dhundal farming gaining popularity in Lalmonirhat

Ridge-gourd, a vegetable locally known as dhundal, sees cultivation on a commercial basis in the district for the last
16 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Maize farming a boon for Lalmonirhat char farmers

Maize cultivation on the abandoned sandy chars of the district has brought prosperity to the farmers.
15 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Rly land under illegal occupation

Illegal commercial structures are being built on Lalmonirhat-Mogholhat abandoned railway track at Uttara Road in Lalmonirhat town,
9 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Healthcare limping due to shortage of doctors

Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital cannot provide healthcare to the patients due to a shortage of doctors.
8 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Jackfruit yield high, prices low in Lalmonirhat

In spite of the bumper production of jackfruit, farmers are disappointed because this seasonal delicious fruit is being sold at low prices in the markets of the district.
8 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Nowhere to play, children's park abandoned

Children are deprived of a place to play as the railway children's park at the station area in Lalmonirhat town has been abandoned for
7 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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Green chilli price doubles in Lalmonirhat markets

The price of green chilli doubled in local markets in the district yesterday, two days ahead of the holy month of Ramadan. One kg of
5 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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They feel sick yet they have to work

One can easily count the ribcage bones of the 11-year-old bidi (local cigarette) factory worker. Stunted Monir Islam suffers from health problems such as frequent fevers, headaches, nausea and cough but has to work due to poverty.
30 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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High yield, fair price make maize farmers happy

Lalmonirhat farmers are happy as they are getting ample production of maize and its fair prices in the local markets this year.
26 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Bumper litchi yield delights growers in Lalmonirhat

Litchi cultivation has brought smiles to a good number of farmers at many villages in the district, with a bumper yield of the juicy
15 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Poor buyers deprived as OMS rice, flour go to black market

Most of the rice and ata (coarse flour) allocated for the government's Open Market Sale (OMS) programme in the district are finding way
12 May 2016, 18:00 PM

'Outcast' by fatwa, back into society after 45 years

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.
10 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Mindless stone lifting from rivers triggers erosion

Vast tracts of farmland in different villages under Patgram upazila of the district are turning sandy and unfit for
10 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Remote villagers make living from online jobs

Jahangir Sarker could have been just another unemployed postgraduate the country has so many of. But the zeal within the
2 May 2016, 18:00 PM
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Farmers all smiles as bitter gourd yield high

Cultivation of bitter gourd in Lalmonirhat has increased from last year as farmers are earning good profits from selling high-yield
4 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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Elderly men used as drug carriers in border areas

Smugglers in border areas of Lalmonirhat and Kurigram districts are hiring old people to transport contraband drugs.
30 March 2016, 18:00 PM

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