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Too many potatoes, too little hope: Farmers resort to feeding spuds to livestock

10 April 2025, 15:34 PM
“With the market this bad, what else can we do?”
10 April 2025, 15:34 PM
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Tea output in northern plains down 20% in 2024

7 April 2025, 18:00 PM
Tea production in the northern plains dropped by nearly 20 percent in 2024, as erratic rainfall, poor market prices, and irregularities in factory accounting took a toll on the sector.
7 April 2025, 18:00 PM
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Eid without Abu Sayed: A family left in mourning

31 March 2025, 06:15 AM
Abu Sayed, a martyr of the July uprising last year, will be missing from his family's celebrations for the first time
31 March 2025, 06:15 AM
Hanging body of woman and daughter in Dinajpur

Dinajpur rape convict goes into hiding after HC bail stayed

23 March 2025, 16:43 PM
A life-term convict has gone into hiding shortly after the Supreme Court chamber judge stayed the High Court order that granted him bail in a case filed over the rape of a five-year-old girl in Dinajpur
23 March 2025, 16:43 PM
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Potato farmers facing losses

22 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Many struggling to cover costs and failing to avail cold storage facilities as prices dip
22 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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Dinajpur-Gobindganj highway rundown again 4yrs after Tk 882cr renovation

20 March 2025, 13:37 PM
The Dinajpur-Gobindganj regional highway, a vital road communication link, has become dilapidated and risky for vehicular movement within just four years after it was renovated and widened by the Roads and Highways Department at a cost of Tk 882 crore
20 March 2025, 13:37 PM
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Favourable weather boosts litchi yield hopes

7 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Dinajpur, widely known as the “Land of Litchis”, is experiencing a promising season, with thousands of trees across the district adorned in golden blossoms.
7 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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Dwindling trade threatens future of Banglabandha land port

1 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Once a thriving regional trade hub, Banglabandha land port—Bangladesh’s only quadripartite port linking India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh—is facing a severe downturn due to its heavy reliance on stone imports.
1 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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Pumpkin on barren char

The chars (landmass emerging from riverbed) of the Teesta river in Kaunia upazila of Rangpur have turned into fertile land for growing
27 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Family devastated by boiler blast

Muzam Ali along with his five brothers got out of home on Wednesday morning to go to Jamuna Automatic Rice Mill at Gopalganj in the district.
24 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Collection rich, maintenance poor

Dinajpur Museum, which has rare and rich collections of different eras and cultures, has been struggling to protect
4 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Lokman disappeared again and again

Before being killed along with his wife and children during the police raid in Moulvibazar's Nasirpur last week, Sohel Rana alias Lokman remained missing for about a decade, friends and family members have said.
2 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Bikash shines in duck rearing

Duck farming changed the fortune of an educated youth who could not get a job despite having a master's degree in
29 March 2017, 18:00 PM

No headmasters in 293 Naogaon primary schools

Teaching at primary schools in many upazilas of Naogaon is being hampered badly as the headmaster posts of 293
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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5 to die for Hoshi killing

A Rangpur court yesterday awarded death penalties to five JMB militants for the killing of Japanese national Kunio Hoshi in 2015.
28 February 2017, 18:00 PM
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Dowry victim schoolgirl fighting for life

Brutal torture by dowry-greedy in-laws has turned the life of a bright schoolgirl hell.
27 February 2017, 18:00 PM
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A good sign

Awareness of health hazards has put farmers in Rangpur off farming tobacco, though it was profitable, leading to the drop of acreage by almost one-third last year from that in 2012-13.
18 February 2017, 18:00 PM
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Coriander leaf farming gets popular in Rangpur

Farming of coriander leaf, which adds to flavour and nutrition in dishes, is gaining popularity in the district due to its high profit.
11 February 2017, 18:00 PM
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Training brings better yields

Small-scale Rangpur farmers are increasing their incomes through better yields, greater knowledge and improved access to finance, thanks to the Growing Together Programme organised cooperatively between an agro-chemical company and two development organisations.
2 February 2017, 18:00 PM
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A gala feast indeed!

More than 30,000 people had a feast yesterday in Akkelpur upazila of Joypurhat held by a local leader of the ruling Awami League.
31 January 2017, 18:00 PM
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Rangpur Santals place 10-point demand

Indigenous Santals from Rangpur region formed a human chain and laid siege to the Deputy Commissioner's office in the city
15 January 2017, 18:00 PM
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Beggar? Not anymore

Jahirul Islam of Birganj upazila has given up begging after he found the goose that lays golden eggs.
14 January 2017, 18:00 PM
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No Christmas this year for Gaibandha Santals

Christmas, the biggest religious festival of the Christian community, is called Borodin in Bangla. The Santal community calls it Sorhai, which is
23 December 2016, 18:00 PM
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Santals in Gaibandha: Worried about the missing

The situation is still tense at Gaibandha's Gobindaganj upazila after Sunday's attack on the Santal community leaving two of them dead.
11 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Poverty constricts Nasrin's dream

Defying odds, Nasrin Akter of Khetlal upazila in Joypurhat got chance for medical graduation course in Satkhira Medical
22 October 2016, 18:00 PM

Stalked, stabbed schoolgirl needs better treatment

Treatment of Class VIII girl Zakia Sultana, who got 42 stabs by a rejected suitor at Bochaganj of Dinajpur on September 7, is hampered due to financial crisis.
19 October 2016, 18:00 PM
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A lifeless zoo

Sushmita Roy and her son recently went to Rangpur city from Thakurgaon to visit her relatives.
2 October 2016, 18:00 PM
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Wastes still stink in Dinajpur town

Wastes of sacrificial animals are polluting the environment in the municipality as the authorities concerned have not
19 September 2016, 18:00 PM

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