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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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84 curves, 9 level crossings create havoc

The 100-km highway from Lalmonirhat town to Burimari land port remains problematic for vehicular movement as there are as many as
31 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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Agri loans often fraudulent, controlled by brokers

A good number of sharecroppers and marginal farmers at villages in 45 unions of five upazilas under the district are recorded as loan
23 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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[WATCH] Physically challenged man brings hope to helpless women

Never learning how to walk, 28-year-old Abul Kalam Azad vowed never to get beat down and instead hardened his resolve to “stand his own ground” all his life. It was not easy for him, growing up in the rural town of Lalmonirhat as a physically challenged individual – undermined by the society and often considered a burden.
21 December 2015, 08:02 AM
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Warm clothes sale on rise as chill grips Lalmonirhat

As biting cold continues to cause sufferings to the people, sellers of warm clothes are doing brisk business in
16 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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Syndicate extorts truckers at Burimari land port

A syndicate has continued forcing transport workers to pay huge illegal toll for loading and unloading imported and exported goods at
15 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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Early potato brings high profit to farmers

Growers of early variety potatoes in the district are happy to get good yield as well as high prices of the crop.
10 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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Farmers using dolomite for better crop yield

Farmers in the district are using dolomite to neutralise acidity in the soil for better yield of crops.
9 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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Fresh areas targeted for tobacco cultivation

Several companies are encouraging farmers to grow tobacco with free seeds and assurance to purchase it from the fields for fair prices
8 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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3G goes to Dahagram

People of Dahagram in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat are now connected to 3G network service launched in the area by Grameenphone yesterday.
25 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Early winter brings woe to poor people in Lalmonirhat

Early arrival of winter in the northern district this year adds to the sufferings of poor people, especially those living in the char (landmass emerged from riverbed) areas.
18 November 2015, 18:00 PM
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67 people go to India today

Sixty-seven of 197 former enclave people who chose to become Indian nationals will say goodbye to their native villages at erstwhile Gotamari enclave in Hatibandha upazila and Banshkata in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat today.
18 November 2015, 18:00 PM
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40-day job scheme starts in Lalmonirhat

The government-run 40-day job scheme meant for providing employment facility to the seasonally jobless farm labourers and ultra
17 November 2015, 18:00 PM
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Tale of a visually impaired teacher

As the children in the classroom open their English grammar books for the day's lesson, their teacher Fazlul Haque picks up his book too. But it is a bit different than the students' classroom books. It is in Braille, a system of raised dots that can be read with the fingers by people who are blind or who have low vision.
9 November 2015, 18:00 PM
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[WATCH NOW] The blind Teacher

Fazlul Haque is visually impaired but he is teaching voluntarily at two schools including a govt primary school and a junior high school at the same campus at a remote village Charkhatamari in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila at the Dharla river basin.
9 November 2015, 12:50 PM
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Farm labourers passing hard time in Lalmonirhat

A large number of farm labourers in the village areas of five upazilas under the district are passing a hard time amid seasonal job crisis
8 November 2015, 18:00 PM
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Time to leave

It's time for them to leave. For ever.
6 November 2015, 18:00 PM
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Young farmer sets example

A young farmer in Lalmonirhat has single handedly brought in a change to the farming methods in his village and neighbouring areas through sheer hard work and dedication.
26 October 2015, 18:00 PM
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Illegal tobacco gul factory pollutes environment

A gul (a tobacco dust product) factory is running illegally at remote Mahishkhocha village of Aditmari upazila under the district, polluting the environment there.
21 October 2015, 18:00 PM
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Villagers suffer as bridge unused for damaged approach road

Over a thousand people of three villages of Dahagram-Angarpota in Patgram upazila under the district are badly
15 October 2015, 18:00 PM
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X-ray, ultrasound machines lie inoperative for months

The ultra-sonogram machine and the x-ray machine at Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital have been inoperative for a long
15 October 2015, 18:00 PM

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