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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Group farming in Teesta char areas changes their life
Around one thousand landless women belonging to 40 groups are now engaged in growing different crops on sandy char (landmass
15 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Lalmonirhat mint farmers hit hard by blockade
Good yield of mint in the district this season fails to make farmers happy as they are facing problem to market the aromatic plant
28 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshi vegetable farmer trains Nepalese farmers
A Bangladeshi farmer has been successful in farming different kinds of hybrid vegetables in Nepal's remote village Ina-ruar of
24 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Vermicompost making brings him solvency
Once a landless farmer, Nazrul Islam has gained solvency by selling vermicompost fertiliser prepared at his Modhupur village home in
15 March 2015, 18:34 PM
One-handed typist of Lalmonirhat
A physical challenged man, despite having only one hand, is working as a typist at Weekly Lalmonirhat Barta, a local newspaper. To everyone's surprise, he is very fast in typing compared to his peers. He earns a meager wage with which he supports his poor family. Farooque Hossain, 44, son of Khayrat Hossain and Fatema Begum resides at Khochabari Nazrultari village in Lalmonirhat sadar upazila. He is the youngest of four siblings, and he got married to Janufa Begum of Durakuti village in Lalmonirhat sadar upazila two years back. He obtained first division in SSC result from Gias Uddin High School in 1990, second division in HSC from Lalmonirhat Government College in 1992 and second division in BA from Kaliganj Karim Uddin Public Degree College in 1995.
3 March 2015, 18:41 PM
Blockade, hartals bring woe to carrot growers
Bumper yield of carrots in the district this season cannot make farmers happy as the prices see drastic fall due to lack of buyers amid the non-stop countrywide blockade and frequent hartals enforced by BNP-led 20-party alliance since January 6.
2 March 2015, 18:22 PM