Kurigram
From Shyamnagar to Kurigram: Women work, but where is the income?
Women across coastal Shyamnagar and the chars of Kurigram spend their days fishing, farming, tending animals, and making goods to sell. Yet unpaid care work, distant water sources, unsafe markets, and repeated climate shocks keep that labour from ever becoming steady income or savings.
7 September 2026
50 metres of Teesta cross dam washed away in Kurigram
WDB dumps geo-bags to contain erosion as locals allege authorities ignored earlier warning signs
2 September 2026
Two killed as motorcycles collide head-on in Kurigram
Victims die at Rangpur Medical College Hospital around three hours after crash
31 August 2026
Farmers break into warehouse, take 197 urea sacks
Agitated farmers in Kurigram’s Bhurungamari upazila yesterday broke into a fertiliser dealer’s warehouse and took away 197 sacks of urea amid a shortage in supply.
24 August 2026
BSF detains two Bangladeshis in separate border incidents, one returned
One returned after flag meeting as villagers detained two Indian nationals; talks underway to bring back the other
11 August 2026
Kurigram's ancient Shiva temple losing priceless terracotta artwork
Centuries-old monument has been under archaeological protection since 2019, but locals say they were never informed
2 August 2026
Rail project misses fourth deadline, Kurigram-Ramna passengers left waiting
Tk 63 crore rehabilitation work remains unfinished as trains run at 10-15 km/h and services drop to one a day
19 July 2026
Hailstorms batter northern districts, destroy crops in over 100 villages
Over 2,000 farmers affected as seed fields, homes and standing crops suffer heavy losses across Lalmonirhat, Kurigram and Rangpur
30 March 2026
After 28 years, lost son reunites with family in Kurigram
Now 37, Saiful is finally back in his parents’ embrace, sparking an emotional reunion
31 August 2025
Schoolgirl abducted after threats in Kurigram
A student of class 10 was abducted in Kurigram's Phulbari upazila yesterday evening, just over two weeks after posters saying that the "girl of the family" would be taken and converted to Islam were found pinned to trees near her home.
19 September 2024
Govt canal grabbed for fish farming
A section of local influential people allegedly grabbed a portion of Mahendranagar Canal on government’s land in Nakhenda area of Kurigram’s Rajarhat upazila for a fish farming project.
14 July 2024
Teesta flooding should be a wake-up call
Bangladesh must push India to sign the treaty
27 August 2023
Pandit Boi Mela enriches the Brahmaputra river bank
"It is not just a book fair; it is a gathering of the people of this region."
2 March 2023
Arefin Sowrob of Creative Digital Bangladesh stands by the flood affected in Kurigram
Arefin Sowrob is a digital entrepreneur, who while working in the IT sector, initiated the Creative Digital Bangladesh, an IT company which provides multiple tech services from web design to digital marketing. Starting from scratch only a few years ago, today Sowrob’s company hires about 150 employees in his organisation. At present, when Sylhet and Kurigram are under the grip of severe floods, Arefin Sowrob has taken steps to stand by the flood victims with his team from Creative Digital Bangladesh.
4 July 2022
Parvez Hasan in aid of the flood-affected in Bangladesh
At present, when people of Sylhet, Sunamganj and Kurigram are affected by the devastating floods. YouTuber, Parvez Hasan has taken numerous steps to stand by the flood victims along with many other compassionate individuals of the country.
1 July 2022
400kg wheat seeds, allocated for flood-affected farmers, seized in Kurigram
Local administration has seized 20 sacks full of 400kg of wheat seeds allocated for flood-affected farmers in Raumari upazila of Kurigram.
7 December 2020
Fire guts 600 mounds of jute in Kurigram
Around 600 mounds of jute were gutted in a fire that broke out at a go-down in Bhurungamari upazila of Kurigram early today.
15 September 2020
3 school students drown in Kurigram’s Sonabhari river
Three school students drowned in the Sonabhari river under Rowmari upazila of Kurigram today.
3 September 2020
62 people in institutional quarantine in Kurigram
Local administration places 62 people, mostly labourers, who reached Kurigram from Dhaka’s Keraniganj, in institutional quarantine as part of measures to contain the spread of coronavirus.
14 April 2020
Punishing Lawyer at Mobile Court: HC rebukes AC (land)
The High Court yesterday rebuked and cautioned Biroda Rani Roy, assistant commissioner (land) of Bhurungamari in Kurigram, for sentencing a senior lawyer in Dinajpur through a mobile court over a trifling matter earlier this month.
28 December 2017