S Dilip Roy

“We had a home and four bighas of arable land, all of which got washed away on Sunday. Now, we have become homeless and landless,” said Koushulya Rani as she broke into tears.

Firoza Begum, a resident of Shalmara village in Bhelabari union under Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat, opened a 12-year term policy with Fareast Islami Life Insurance Company some 15 years ago. 

A new Teesta branch in Gatiashyam village of Gharialdanga in Kurigram’s Rajarhat upazila has become the cause of concerns for locals.

Farmers in Bangladesh are pleased to be getting good yields and prices for kathkachu, a variety of taro root native to South Asia, as demand for the crop has risen this year.

Homes of some locals flooded; water of Dharla, Dudhkumar and Buriganga rising

The ongoing holiday centring Eid-ul-Azha has raised concerns among mango farmers that prices for the fruit may decline further in coming days despite the high production cost.

Authorities of Dakkhin Khauria School and College in Kurigram’s Chilmari upazila have been compelled to suspend all classes as erosion by the Brahmaputra river devoured a major portion of the institution building.

Over a hundred families residing in three unions located by the Brahmaputra in Kurigram have lost their homestead to erosions in the past few weeks.

Farmer Hasem Ali, 50, from Ajoatar village in Kurigram’s Phulbari upazila, has transformed his once barren highland into a thriving grape orchard, becoming a beacon of hope for farmers facing similar challenges.

Vegetable growers in different upazilas of Lalmonirhat and Kurigram are getting frustrated due to lack of rainfall during the ongoing hot spell for the last couple of weeks and they are now worried that they may not get the expected production of crops this season.

“What was my fault?” Lying on a hospital bed, Mahmudul Hasan, a 33-year-old, was asking this to his relatives and everyone who came to see him, but got no response

Roving barbers refer to barbers who don’t have a fixed salon, but instead, move around different markets or villages to provide grooming services to their customers. They set up temporary workstations wherever they find customers, often working under the open sky.

With the hope of getting huge profit, speech and hearing-impaired Kamol Chandra Saha started depositing money in a scheme of an insurance company in 2010.

A family from the minority community in Kurigram’s Phulbari upazila is now living in fear of eviction from their ancestral home by an influential land grabber.

The story of Language movement hero Zahir Uddin Ahmed, who died at his home at Naodabash village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila on Friday evening, is quite encouraging, especially when people have been cutting trees for personal interest and financial gain.

Sand is being extracted illegally from the Teesta river in some places of Mahishkhocha union in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila, making the river bank vulnerable to erosion.

In 1991, when Abul Kasem, a farmer of Hatibandha upazila in Lalmonirhat, a northwest bordering district, decided to cultivate maize, he was one of the few growers in his area.

Two local influential men have continued building separate permanent structures on leased out government khas land at Balarhat Bazar in Kurigram’s Phulbari upazila, thanks to the negligence of the authorities concerned.

The Sheikh Hasina Teesta Bridge, also known as the second Teesta Bridge, over the Teesta in Mahipur area on the Kakina-Mahipur route in Kaliganj  is in a vulnerable condition due to heavy vehicles, especially stone-laden trucks, plying over it every day.

It is hard to believe that a government primary school, built in the middle of croplands, in Kurigram Sadar upazila is running without students.