KM Rezaul Hoque

Farmers in the northern district are passing busy time for planting Boro seedlings, ignoring the biting cold during the peak cultivation season.

At least two century-old rail bridges on Santahar-Lalmonirhat rail tracks, which connects the capital with cities in northern districts, continue to be in service despite their ramshackle state.

Over a thousand people, mostly women, living in extreme poverty in Palashbari upazila have found a way to bring home some extra income without investing any money.

After meeting winter clothing needs of the country’s low and limited-income groups, knitwear factories in Kochashahar union of Gobindaganj upazila are now looking to export their goods overseas.

Obstructing outdoor games, the headmaster of a high school in Gaibandha’s Fulchhari upazila has been cultivating black lentils on the school playground for the last two years.

Petbhata village in Rangpur is now known as Oushodhi Gram (village of herbs) as hundreds of families there are gaining solvency by planting herbs.

Prolonged flood in the char lands of Gaibandha district has completely damaged aman seedlings causing local farmers to worry about their crops. However, with advice from agriculture officers, farmers found a solution in the floating seedbed technology.

The famous red chilli market on the bank of the Jamuna at Gajaria in Gaibandha’s Fulchhari upazila has been running under the open sky for over a decade, much to the sufferings of sellers and buyers.