Summer onion project wilts as seeds cannot withstand heat
Farmers welcome project but say they need heat-tolerant seeds
3 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Jamaat, allies set to agree to referendum on election day
Rangpur rally will deliver final message on reforms, says Abdul Halim
2 December 2025, 12:47 PM
Transhipment truck finally leaves for Bhutan through Burimari
The goods had been stuck at the port for four days
1 December 2025, 15:15 PM
Bhutan cargo stuck at Burimari over India’s clearance delay
Indian authorities have not issued the required transit clearance for transporting Bhutan’s transhipment goods through Bangladesh’s road network and across Indian territory.
30 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Business Plus / The economic rise of river islands
Northern chars evolved from temporary settlements into thriving agricultural hubs
28 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Teesta in Lalmonirhat / Centuries-old rail bridge puts commuters at risk
More than two decades after the Teesta Railway Bridge in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila exceeded its lifespan, around 20 passenger trains continue to cross the weakened structure every day, putting thousands of commuters at risk.
27 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Rangpur Chest Disease hospital: TB patients left without indoor care
Patient admissions at the only 20-bed Chest Disease Hospital in the Rangpur division have remained suspended since June after the stoppage of dietary supply for inpatients.
24 November 2025, 22:29 PM
A village entirely devoured by the Brahmaputra
Once a vibrant and self-reliant agrarian village with around 350 families, Char Montola, a shoal in Kurigram's Chilmari upazila, has disappeared from the map as the Brahmanputra devoured it entirely following two years of intensified river erosion.
23 November 2025, 21:35 PM
Tale of river island cowboys
Bangladesh is home to various cattle breeds but the tale of the struggles of cowboys, especially those hailing from the riverine chars, often goes unheard.
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Kurigram-3 AL MP defiant as locals, mayor oppose his beautification project
Locals of Ulipur upazila in Kurigram have expressed mixed reactions over the construction of a bridge -- Swadhinata Setu -- over the age old Swarnamayee Sarovar (lake) in the upazila.
25 August 2020, 15:43 PM
1,500 trainee artisans await promised govt grant
Eight months have passed since 1,500 artisans from different marginal communities in Lalmonirhat took part in a government-run training programme. But they are yet to receive their financial assistance as promised.
23 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Traders stopped import-export business protesting double parking charges in Burimari land port
Trade through the Burimari land port in Lalmonirhat has remained suspended since yesterday centring protests over a sudden doubling of parking fees, which the port officials denied bringing about.
22 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Move to build bridge over century-old pond for beautification
The initiative to construct a bridge over ‘Swarnamoyee Sarobar’, a two-century-old pond in Ulipur upazila town under Kurigram, has given rise to protest by a section of locals.
19 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Teesta erosion: A village in Lalmonirhat erased from the map
Even two days before the Eid-ul-Azha, Singimari village existed in the shoal area of Teesta River, where 385 families resided. Now, the village is no more, as the river devoured the entire village in a matter of days, erasing it from the map.
15 August 2020, 13:37 PM
Covid-infected nurse attending patients ‘under pressure’ from authorities
As bizarre as it may sound, a Covid positive nurse has been discharging duties at the children ward of Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital for about a week allegedly due to the pressure from the hospital authorities.
14 August 2020, 18:00 PM
No scope to study in shelters: Flood-hit children lagging behind
"When will we return home, mother?’ eight-year-old Rabbi Islam, a second-grader, asks his mother. “I can’t read here, I want to go home so I can study,’ he says.
30 July 2020, 09:17 AM
Lalmonirhat SI threatens “crossfire”, extorts Tk 19 lakh from ‘drug dealer’
Selim Reza Chowdhury, a sub-inspector (SI) of Aditmari Police Station in Lalmonirhat, extorts Tk 18.90 lakh from an alleged drug smuggler, after threatening to “put him in a crossfire”.
29 July 2020, 14:53 PM
No smiles this Eid for people in flood-hit Kurigram, Lalmonirhat
Nearly four lakh people in the flood affected regions of Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts will be spending Eid-ul-Azha in despair this year.
29 July 2020, 07:50 AM
Over 50,000 people marooned in Teesta and Dharla shoals in Lalmonirhat
Around 50,000 people in five upazilas in Lalmonirhat have been marooned as the Teesta and Dharla rivers swelled above danger levels yesterday evening.
22 July 2020, 18:30 PM
Pregnant women in Kurigram flood shelters at high risk
Pregnant women in the flood-hit areas of Kurigram who have left home and taken shelter on the government roads, dykes built by the Water Development Board and railway lines are facing health risks.
20 July 2020, 05:51 AM
Plight of long-time volunteers at Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital
As many as 36 men and women, working as voluntary staff at Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital for years, are passing days amid hardship as the authorities are yet to put them on the regular payroll.
18 May 2020, 18:00 PM
61 Indian truckers stranded at Burimari land port for weeks
It has been more than two weeks when they came to Bangladesh’s Burimari land port in Patgram with their trucks carrying jute seeds imported from India. But 61 drivers of the vehicles from that country are still stranded there.
20 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Illegal structures on govt canal
A local Awami League (AL) leader is building illegal structures, filling up about 20 decimals of land of a government canal at Kartimari Haat, a village market in Jadur Char union under Kurigram’s Roumari upazila.
16 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Stone-Crushing Workers in Lalmonirhat: Silicosis death toll rising
The stone-crushing workers in Patgram upazila are left to suffer as most are too poor to afford treatment for an irreversible lung disease silicosis which is their occupational hazard.
30 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Poverty never derails ‘Dotara Pagol’ Suklal Roy
Suklal Roy, 37, is known as Dotara Pagol in his village, where the residents are in awe of his skills with the instrument. The artiste lives in the village Kalisthan of Kamlabari union, at Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat.
25 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Livelihood of fishermen under threat
Hundreds of fishermen in Kurigram and Lalmonirhat are going through hard times as fish stocks in the Brahmaputra and Teesta rivers have drastically decreased over the years.
25 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Earning a living with an exceptional memory
Mizanur Rahman, a youth living on a char on Brahmaputra River in Kurigram, is visually challenged since birth, but that did not prevent him from earning a living.
13 March 2020, 12:01 PM
Ferdousi: A torchbearer of education
Paschim Barua village used to be pervaded by some typical social ills -- superstition, child marriage, and child labour. A remote village of 20,000 people in Kulaghat union of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila, it has now been transformed by education.
11 March 2020, 18:00 PM