Md Quamrul Islam Rubaiyat

A 1,000-bed private hospital will be set up in the northern district of Panchagarh at an estimated cost of Tk 2,500 crore from “local and foreign investors” who seek to meet healthcare needs of locals and neighbouring countries’ citizens. 

The majestic Kanchenjunga, the world’s third highest mountain.

Considering the rush of visitors from all over the country, the tourist facilities in Panchagarh are anything but adequate.

Hari Kishore Roy’s family was preparing for the Durga Puja with unbound zest and excitement.

The minimum price for raw tea leaves grown in Panchagarh was fixed at Tk 18 per kilogramme (kg) on Wednesday following recent demonstrations by local farmers demanding a fair value for their produce.

Tea growers of Panchagarh yesterday staged a demonstration at Sher-e-Bangla intersection of the Panchagarh-Dhaka highway, demanding a fair price for raw tea leaves in the ongoing harvesting season.

The government recently ran an excavation project in Thakurgaon’s Suk river. But within 10 months of its completion, the river channel has been filled up again, making the entire effort futile.

Imran Ali, a farmer in Panchagarh, could barely get by with sugarcane cultivation in his 1.7 acres of land. Then, in 2005, he rolled the dice and switched to tea production, a gamble that went on to change his life forever.

In recent weeks, people have witnessed a curious sight unfolding in a farm in Dhondogaon area of Thakurgaon.

Production at state-run sugar mills is set to hit its lowest point in over a decade as sugarcane processing has fallen sharply amid reduced supply, according to the Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation (BSFIC).

A remote village in Panchagarh’s Tentulia upazila is now abuzz with visitors from various parts of Bangladesh after eight farmers harvested high-value tulip flowers under a pilot scheme.  

Several hundred people from different parts of the country are gathering daily at an orchard abundant with ripe oranges in Thakurgaon’s Pirganj upazila as pictures of the location went viral on social media giant, Facebook. 

Tea processing factories are being set up in Panchagarh in increasing numbers in keeping with the fast-expanding cultivation of the popular beverage in northern districts.

Agriculture officials and potato growers are expecting to achieve a record potato production in Thakurgaon and Panchagrh in the ongoing season of harvest.

A Tk 26.69 crore newly constructed building of Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital is lying unused as the hospital authority has refused to take it from the Public Works Department (PWD) citing several ‘faults’ that might hinder the medical care giving process.

Jute farmers in Thakurgaon and Panchagarh are expecting good production of the fibre and its fair prices in the local markets this season, although they faced some problems at the initial stage of the cultivation season due to excessive untimely rain.

Potato growers of the district are worried that they might not be able to recover the production cost due to sudden

Defying his severe physical disability a schoolboy, who was born with one hand missing and the other badly deformed, is appearing in

A woman pedestrian was killed as a log fell on her when workers were cutting roadside trees near Tangon Bridge on Railway Station

Farmers in Panchagarh and Thakurgaon are worried as several hundred acres of Boro paddy fields have been attacked by blast disease.