Kongkon Karmaker

With around 4.42 lakh people expecting to exercise their franchise, election to Rangpur-3 constituency (Sadar upazila) will be held today.

With only one day left for the by-polls to Rangpur-3 constituency, senior leaders of Jatiya Party (JP) have held a meeting with local leaders and activists to put aside their differences and work together to make sure that their candidate win the election.

With yesterday being the last day of campaigning for the by-election to Rangpur-3, candidates spent a busy day visiting different neighbourhoods in the constituency and trying to persuade prospective voters.

With only a few days left for the by-election to Rangpur-3 constituency, aspirants are passing busy days in electioneering. The by-election is slated to be held on October 5.

After 160 years of ‘Nil Bidroho’, the iconic peasant movement over cultivation of one of the original sources of blue dye--Indigo, many growers in Rangpur are now making a fortune by planting that very plant.

Jatiya Party’s politics is heating up in Rangpur since the announcement of by-election schedule to Rangpur-3, that fell vacant with the death of party leader HM Ershad.

Heap of garbage, a major source of environmental pollution, has been piled up almost everywhere in the town in absence of regular cleanliness drive by the authorities concerned, making people’s lives intolerable.

The resistance during the 1971 Liberation War began in Rangpur early March and it was a full-on war even before the black night of March 25.

Otherwise an ordinary couple, Faruk Hossain and Sabera Akter have been doing a laudable job, working to prevent dropout at schools and to provide literacy to elderly people for the last 10 years.

Only two doctors have been tending to patients round the clock for the last three months at the 50-bed Birganj Upazila Health Complex in Dinajpur.

With her rare mental disorder, a six-year and two-month-old girl has been leading her life in a bamboo cage for years at Sadipur (Salimpara) village in Sadar upazila.

Voters belonging to ethnic minority community can influence results at six constituencies of Rangpur and Rajshahi regions in the 11th Parliamentary Election today.

Fear of attack is prevailing among the Hindu community people in Kornai and Telipara villages under Sadar upazila with the approach of the 11th national election, to be held on December 30.

Abdul Awal, 58, cannot hold back his excitement as for the first time in his life he would be voting in the 11th parliamentary polls on December 30.

With only few days remaining for national election, supporters of HM Ershad, nominated by Awami League-led grand alliance, are still waiting for funds to conduct campaign.

Relatives, neighbours as well as teachers, schoolmates and friends of three schoolgirls who met tragic death along with five other family members including their parents and baby brother in a fire accident at their house in Joypurhat town on Wednesday night, are still reeling from the shock.

90-year-old Kamini Bala is one of the oldest victims of the brutal arson attack that destroyed homes of 11 Hindu families in Rangpur's Thakurpara village last November.

Clad in wedding garbs and the garlands they used in their wedding ceremony 18 years ago, a couple in Kaunia upazila of Rangpur celebrated their marriage anniversary, on Monday, in an exceptional manner and for a cause – to remove domestic violence from society.

Morzina Begum from Daktarpara in Rangpur town works in a bidi factory, rolling cheap cigarettes. Aged 75, it's not an ideal

Getting return tickets of Bangladesh Railway (BR) has become difficult for Eid holidaymakers in Dinajpur, Rangpur and Joypurhat as most tickets goes to the black marketers allegedly in collusion with some dishonest officials and staff.