Kongkon Karmaker

With the decrease in cattle supply from India, cattle farmers of eight northern districts under Rangpur division are

A major part of the district including rural and urban areas has witnessed massive damages to its public and private infrastructure due

Sujan Hossain, now eight years old, was the lucky one. In June 2012 he was one of fourteen children in Dinajpur and Thakurgaon who fell sick after eating toxic litchis from gardens recently sprayed with pesticide. All were treated at Dinajpur Medical College Hospital.

A three-year-old boy from the indigenous community in Naogaon's Badalgachhi upazila, has been suffering from unbearable pain due to an undiagnosed skin condition since his birth.

The only primary school at Tejonandi village in Naogaon's Atrai upazila has turned into a cattle shed as classes at the institution remained stopped for long in absence of teachers.

Two farmers of Chirirbandar upazila of the district became solvent by farming taro plants (Colocasia Esculenta), locally known as lotiraaj kachu, of Araceae family.

Academic activities at 623 primary and high schools in Rangpur region have been suspended for more than a month due to flooding caused by heavy rainfall and an onrush of water from the upstream, said education officials.

For the whole of her life, nine-year-old Mahmuda Akter from Kamdevpur village in Biral upazila of Dinajpur has suffered from an

All it takes in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur is a little rain, a few millimetres of precipitation are sufficient, to submerge education.

Fifty-year-old Sundari Bala, displaced by the erosion of the mighty Teesta river years ago, has chosen something different to earn her

A staggering half of the money allocated for 26 people with disabilities has been pocketed by union parishad (UP) members in Badalgachhi upazila of Naogaon.

Villagers in in Badarganj upazila of Rangpur on Thursday allegedly tortured a woman and cut off her hair moments after she had narrowly escaped being raped by a stalker.

Long-renowned for its archaeological wealth, the importance of the Dinajpur region to the study of ancient Bengali civilisation has

Although it has been a week since Eid was celebrated across the country, people are still rescheduling their travelling date to reach

People of seven villages in Kaunia upazila of Rangpur erected a 400-foot-long bamboo bridge over the Sati river as they had been

Thousands of Dhaka-bound passengers suffered long delays due to a collapse in train schedules on Dinajpur-Dhaka

Abdul Jalil, 52, from Nayanpur in Dinajpur municipality is well-known throughout the district town, but not always by name.

The culvert over a canal in Atrai upazila of Naogaon is of no use to the people due to absence of approach roads.

When the clock strikes 6:30pm, people, mostly poor and street people, sit in several rows at Rangpur Railway Station platform, and a bunch of young people start serving Iftar to them.

Burn patients at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) are in agony as none of the air conditions (ACs) is working since May 10 in the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit in the scorching heat.