Kongkon Karmaker

A large portion of the peanut fields in the raised sandy basin of the Teesta river in three upazilas of Rangpur has been flooded due to the sudden rise of water level, only a few days before the usual harvesting time.

While humans are trying to fight the deadly novel coronavirus across the globe, cattle in the country’s northern districts, under Rangpur division, are getting infected at an alarming pace by another highly contagious virus -- lumpy skin disease (LSD).

Litchi is selling for good prices after it hit the market a week ago, much to the happiness of growers and traders who had earlier feared price fall of the popular summer fruit amid the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic.

For the last one month, sugarcane farmer Abdul Salam has not received a penny from the state-owned Mobarakganj Sugar Mill in Jhenaidah district’s Kaliganj upazila.

“I’ve got to do something for my country -- that’s all I could think of. I have to free my country from Pakistan,” Kina Kora reminisced about how he felt when the Pakistani occupation army cracked down on unarmed Bangladeshis in the dark night of March 25 in 1971.

With Indian onion starting to reenter Bangladesh after a six-month export ban, two government wings are up for discouraging the arrival of the tuber to protect local growers from price slumps amidst ongoing harvests.

Onion prices have slumped amid increasing supply and fears of flooding of the bulb after India decided to lift the ban on export -- a development that has provided relief to consumers but raised concerns for farmers.

At only 19, Rana Babu had migrated to Oman in 2017 with high hopes of making a decent living there and gradually helping his family come out of the clutches of poverty.

Farmers of Kashimpur village in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur formed a human chain on the dried up bed of the Atrai river yesterday demanding that the authorities postpone leaving the dredged mud there till harvest of the crops cultivated there.

Refueling stations in nine districts of the country’s northern region are not getting required quantity of diesel as current supply is no match for additional high demand for irrigation.

Kidney dialysis at the nephrology department of Rangpur Medical College Hospital remained suspended for four days until yesterday as its water treatment plant is not working due to a technical glitch.

At least 1,000 acres of arable land in Doulatpur union under Dinajpur’s Phulbari upazila has remained unused for the last two years due to waterlogging as influential people blocked the passage of eight culverts after digging ponds for fish farming in the adjacent spots.

Chetana Bikash Model School in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur has become a trendsetter by training over 200 students on handwriting.

The ongoing cold weather accompanied by dense fog has started affecting the Boro seedbeds in the district, much to the worry of farmers.

They took part in laying rail tracks -- one of the primary infrastructural backbones of the country. Several of them fought for the country’s independence in 1971.

Amid a rise in onion prices, the use of the cooking ingredient has dropped significantly in the restaurants in Dinajpur.

After soaring prices of onions, consumers now have to deal with rice prices creeping up over the last few weeks.

Jagannath Chandra Roy was looking forward to attend the programme on dignified equality and prevention of violence against women at the newly renovated auditorium of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU) on Thursday morning.

Residents of Pirjabad in Rangpur town are under serious risk of getting electrocuted as several hundred houses in the area have been using electricity by drawing power lines with the help of bamboo poles.

BNP’s Rita Rahman and independent candidate Shahriar Asif, who is HM Ershad’s nephew, have rejected the results of the by-election to Rangpur-3 constituency, bringing allegations of vote rigging.