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
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 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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
Time to leave
It's time for them to leave. For ever.
6 November 2015
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
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
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
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
Teesta, Dharla continue to devour homesteads, cropland
Over 2500 people of Hatibandha and Lalmonirhat Sadar upazilas, hit by Teesta and Dharla erosion, have been living under the open sky
12 October 2015
Railway land under illegal occupation in Lalmonirhat
Over a thousand illegal structures have already been built on grabbed railway lands in different areas of the district while a section of occupiers are illegally selling 'possession' of such lands.
4 October 2015
Teesta devours schools, 50 homesteads in 3 days
The Teesta River has devoured academic buildings and at least 50 homesteads in Dawabari village in Hatibandha upazila of the district
30 September 2015
Flood brings woe to fish farmers in Lalmonirhat
Around 15 thousand fish farmers in five upazilas under the district are badly affected by the ongoing flood that washed away fishes from their 4,000 fish farms.
9 September 2015
Flood damages vast aman fields in Lalmonirhat
Thousands of aman farmers affected by the recent flood in the district are facing uncertainty due to lack of saplings for replanting in their fields.
2 September 2015
Pariza paddy brings smile to farmers in Lalmonirhat
Cultivation of Pariza, a short duration paddy cultivated between boro and aman, brings happiness to a good number of farmers in the
18 August 2015
Villagers foil land grabbing bid in Lalmonirhat
Villagers foiled a local gang's attempt to grab 23 decimals of land of a family at Ananda Bazar village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila early
15 August 2015
46 workers die of silicosis in three years
Silicosis, an incurable disease caused by silica dust, has taken the lives of 46 workers in the last three years in 25 limestone grinding
13 August 2015
Railway canal under illegal occupation in Lalmonirhat
A portion of the one-kilometer-long railway Fuleshwari canal has been illegally grabbed at Dalpatti Bazar area in Lalmonirhat town.
11 August 2015
A different day for students, teachers of remote school
It was a different day for the students of Karim Uddin Public High School in Kaliganj upazila under the district as a London-based teacher
11 August 2015
Hundreds in misery as Dharla devours houses, croplands
Centenarian Sharat Chandra Devnath sat on the Dharla river bank, looking very upset, as his homestead with 15 decimals of land at
8 August 2015
Banana farming brings solvency to farmers
Banana farming is proving profitable for many villagers on the several river islands in the Dharla River in Mogholhat and Kulaghat unions of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila.
6 August 2015
Inhabitants of erstwhile Indian enclave unite to fight land grabbers
The inhabitants of an erstwhile Indian enclave in Lalmonirhat never had the courage before to raise their voice against the land grabbers as they had no legal protection and feared attack by the culprits.
2 August 2015
Cheers!
Ratan Miah and his neighbours in Banshkata had good reasons to be happy yesterday. They not only became citizens of Bangladesh, after the enclave exchange, but Ratan also got to marry the girl of his dreams.
1 August 2015