S Dilip Roy

Many water bodies like rivers, canals and ponds are becoming polluted due to retting of jute plants in these water bodies as ribbon retting, a method for retting the plants with less water, is yet to gain popularity in the district.

Around 4,000 flood-affected people from India, who took shelter in villages along the Lalmonirhat border on Sunday

Lalmonirhat-Burimari national highway has become risky for traffic movement due to the many potholes that have developed at different points on the road.

Almost all the children of the Bede (gypsy) community in Lalmonirhat are deprived of education due to absence of awareness among their guardians and lack of proper facilities. Instead of sending them to school, the parents teach the children magic tricks to earn money.

This distance of just about six feet between them seems painfully huge. And agonising, too. When they come to see each other here as two bamboo fences separate them, they know they are so close and yet so far.

Around 50 thousand people were marooned in 80 villages of 16 unions under the district as the low-lying char lands of Teesta and

The Bailey bridge over the river Swarnamoti on Lalmonirhat-Burimari Highway is on the verge of collapsing at Sarpukur area under

“I had to sell three of my six cows for low prices in the local market on Sunday as the recent flood damaged all the grasses at fields,

Thousands of people returning to their workplaces after spending Eid holidays in their villages are suffering in Lalmonirhat railway

Listing of voters in 111 former Indian enclaves under Lalmonirhat, Kurigram, Nilphamari and Panchagarh districts began yesterday,

Many children in the district do not attain normal physical and mental growth due to severe malnutrition.

Adulterated spices, especially powdered spices, have flooded the markets in Lalmonirhat ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.

He could study only up to class-III as his parents were very hard up.

A village cop (Gram Police) was assaulted allegedly by gamblers as he protested against open gambling at Ketkibari village in Nawdabansh union under Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat on Tuesday night.

Jesmina Begum, 48, was crying as their homestead with ten decimals of land at Dawabari village under Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat was devoured by the Teesta River on Tuesday afternoon. Their six bighas of croplands were devoured in the last two weeks.

Surprisingly this Ramadan the prices of various types of vegetables dropped sharply in the local kitchen markets due to poor demand

In Bangladesh, people affected with dwarfism are often mocked and the disability is considered limitation and the affected are treated as burden. But this is not one of those stories.

Around 100 homesteads, 150 bighas of farmland and fruit orchards have been devoured by the Dharla River in

Ridge-gourd, a vegetable locally known as dhundal, sees cultivation on a commercial basis in the district for the last

Maize cultivation on the abandoned sandy chars of the district has brought prosperity to the farmers.