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Locals suffer as Teesta devours key road

9 September 2026
Nearly 300 metres of an unpaved road along the Teesta riverbank in Khuniagachh union of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila have been eroded over the past one month, causing severe hardship for more than 2,000 families living in several shoals nearby.
9 September 2026
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Fertiliser still stuck in supply chain maze

9 September 2026
Bangladesh has enough fertiliser, the government says. Dealers say they have stocks. Yet farmers in several districts say authorised dealers are refusing to sell or capping them at one sack, forcing many to buy from unauthorised sellers at inflated prices.
9 September 2026
Teesta River erosion Lalmonirhat

Teesta swallows 300-metre road, disrupts lives of 2,000 families in Lalmonirhat

7 September 2026
Farmers bear extra time, labour and transport costs after erosion makes road unusable
7 September 2026
Ganapati Chakraborty family murder case Rangpur

Rangpur murders: Two weeks on, motive is still unclear

4 September 2026
Two weeks have passed, and police still cannot explain the motive behind the gruesome killing of four members of a family in Rangpur city.
4 September 2026
Ganapati Chakraborty family murder case Rangpur

Where did around Tk 15 lakh go? Ganapati withdrew it weeks before family killings

30 August 2026
Relatives and former colleagues say the slain Rangpur teacher withdrew the provident fund money 22 days before the killings; police are still trying to trace it
30 August 2026
Ganapati Chakrabarty, 65, his wife, Pritilata Chakrabarty, 50, and their daughter, Agami Chakrabarty, 25, were killed on the roof, while their son, Priyam, 12, was killed on a bed inside the house, the police commissioner said at a press briefing at his office this morning. Photo: Collected

Police reveal new details in Rangpur family killings

27 August 2026
Commissioner says the killings took place last Friday morning, after Ganapati saw the accused taking yaba on the roof
27 August 2026
Bangladesh fertiliser stock 2026

Fertiliser prices soar amid ‘artificial crisis’

25 August 2026
For farmers racing against the crop calendar, fertiliser is becoming a source of anxiety.
25 August 2026
Ganapati Chakraborty family murder case Rangpur

‘Their faces had been burned’: Relatives say after receiving Rangpur victims’ bodies

23 August 2026
CID official says a flammable substance appears to have been poured on the victims’ faces
23 August 2026
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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

'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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Lalmonirhat farmers expect bumper maize yield

Maize has been cultivated on large areas of land at five upazilas in Lalmonirhat this year, exceeding the target set by the Department of
30 March 2016
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Mission mother's safety

Although she is not a doctor by profession, villagers of Gotmari in Lalmonirhat lovingly call her “Dakter Apa”.
18 March 2016
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Plight of women stone breakers in Lalmonirhat

Women labourers are preferred for the arduous work of breaking stones in Patgram upazila under the district as they can be exploited,
10 March 2016
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Pumpkins a blessing for Teesta char farmers

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.
9 March 2016
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Good yield, fair prices bring cheer to potato growers

Potato growers in the district are happy to get good yield and fair prices of the item this season.
6 March 2016
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Lalmonirhat jujube growers upset over low prices

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.
2 March 2016
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Huge amount of fertiliser kept out in the open

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.
28 February 2016
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Frustrated, post-graduate returns all his certificates

A physically challenged man with sound higher education in Lalmonirhat returned all his academic certificates to the government yesterday.
24 February 2016
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Boro sapling sale falls in Lalmonirhat

Boro sapling markets in the district see much less than expected buyers during the ongoing peak cultivation season as farmers are
23 February 2016
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Love for language wins finally

Some influential local bigots had always stopped others from setting up a Shaheed Minar in Durakuti village of Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat.
21 February 2016

Housewife tortured for 'dowry' hospitalised

A newly married housewife was tortured by her mother in-law and other members of the family, allegedly for dowry, at Karnapur village
2 February 2016
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No fetters could tie her down

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.
1 February 2016
Arifa Akhter, Lalmonirhat

No fetters could tie her down

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.
1 February 2016
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Second Teesta bridge misses deadline

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.
29 January 2016

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