S Dilip Roy

Favourable weather conditions for chilli farming and increased market demand have boosted earnings for farmers in the Rangpur region this season.

Absence of flooding forces farmers to spend more on fertiliser, raising fears over crop yields

Farmers say achieving production target will be harder as rice drives half of food inflation

The number of voters registered for the 13th National Parliamentary Election in Rangpur district has increased significantly across its six parliamentary constituencies, with young voters emerging as a decisive force.

First-time voters emerge as key factor

Family awaits justice amid stalled legal proceedings in India

Traders say sales may more than double this year

Agricultural land across the Rangpur region has been experiencing a decline in productivity, coupled with environmental damage due to the loss of fertile topsoil, which is being openly extracted and supplied to around 595 brick kilns in the four districts.

Nearly 10,000 drives across eight districts resulted in arrests, case filings, major drug seizures, says Department of Narcotics Control

Although the infrastructure was completed six years ago, Rangpur Children’s Hospital has yet to open. Built on 1.65 acres of land in the Puratan Hospital area of Rangpur city at a cost of Tk 31.08 crore, the hospital has remained unused.

Garbage-choked Shyamasundari canal fuels infestation affecting over 8 lakh people

Returning officers cite incomplete affidavit and withholding information

Allege sharp fall in milk production as cattle suffer from cold, fog and fodder shortage

For char residents, this unequal exchange is not new.

Low-income communities struggle, ‘limited’ relief distributed

This year, the price gap between new and old potatoes has narrowed significantly

Farmers who cultivated early varieties of potatoes are once again incurring losses as prices of newly harvested tubers remain unusually low due to an oversupply of older stock in the market.

Passenger train services in Bangladesh Railway’s Lalmonirhat division are being operated largely with long-expired locomotives, heightening the risk of serious accidents and disrupting schedules in the northern region, railway officials and employees said.

The Carmichael College in Rangpur, a historic educational institution in northern Bangladesh, has been facing a myriad of crises, including a shortage of teachers, insufficient classrooms, dilapidated infrastructure, and poor accommodation facilities for students.

Farmers welcome project but say they need heat-tolerant seeds