S Dilip Roy

The coronavirus epidemic in China has adversely impacted the scrap plastic industry in Lalmonirhat, a northern border district of Bangladesh, as local merchants now find it difficult to offload their stocks.

In Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila, Abdur Rashid, a farmer, felt the need to do something for the children with special needs, who are often neglected by society.

People generally go to libraries seeking information and knowledge, and sometimes for leisure. But what if you could catch up on reading while waiting for a haircut?

Each farmer, whose name was drawn in lottery, will get a chance to sell one tonne of paddy to the government at Tk 26 per kg rate. But it has been alleged that the growers cannot sell their paddy without paying bribes to warehouse officers and labourers.

Atul Chandra Roy of Durakuti village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila has earned the reputation of an ‘ideal vegetable farmer’ in the area, thanks to his use of organic method for cultiavtion.

The use of herbal medicines is providing comfort and relief to the people of Goral, a remote village in Lalmonirhat, and other adjacent villages, thanks to the passion of a schoolteacher for herbalism and his commitment to treat people for free.

The carpeting of newly renovated five-kilometre Mohiskhocha-Burirhat road in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila is getting damaged as the work under Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) was done allegedly without doing sufficient strengthening work.

Rice growers in Lalmonirhat are feeling distressed after paddy prices in Aditmari, one of five upazilas in the district, fell below their average cost of production in a span of only two weeks.

A physically challenged youth in the remote Haziganj Bhatitari village of Aditmari upazila in Lalmonirhat is using music to inspire children in his village.

Two years back, the people of Sindurna Char, a remote locality in Teesta river basin area of Lalmonirhat’s Hatibandha upazila were hardly aware of modern healthcare including institutional delivery.

Sheikh Hasina Teesta Bridge in Lalmonirhat’s Kaliganj upazila has remained off limits to public transport and heavy vehicles like buses and trucks since its construction over a year ago, much to the dissatisfaction of the locals.

Boro seedbeds in many areas of Lalmonirhat district are turning yellowish under the impact of the ongoing cold wave and dense fog.

Ten primary schools founded by the inhabitants of former enclave areas in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila are yet to get government funding for teachers’ salary and stipend and school feeding programme for around 1600 students, much to the frustration of the stakeholders.

Vegetable growers in Lalmonirhat are earning more than expected profits from selling their produces this season.

November 20, 1911 is the date of birth of Gazar Uddin as per his national ID. The affable gentleman, however, claims that he is 125 not 108.

Illegal felling of roadside green trees continues, allegedly by the auction winner for 1200 trees prior to renovation of Patgram-Dahagram road at Dahagram union in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila, much to the grievance of nearby villagers.

While Abu Hossain, a rickshaw-van puller by profession, is struggling to run his seven-member family with his meagre income, treatment of his 18-year-old mentally challenged son seems a dream for him.

Dahagram-Angarpota 10-bed Hospital on two acres of land has everything--a one-storied hospital building, staff quarters, garden, signboards and even patients.

Thousands of women work hand in hand with men at nearly 2,000 stone crushing plants around Burimari land port in Patgram upazila, but their daily wage remain far below than that of their male counterparts.

Burimari union, a border village nestling in a nook of the Indian district of Cooch Behar, is a village of stones and stone-crushing yards.