S Dilip Roy

Farmers in the district are using dolomite to neutralise acidity in the soil for better yield of crops.

Several companies are encouraging farmers to grow tobacco with free seeds and assurance to purchase it from the fields for fair prices

People of Dahagram in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat are now connected to 3G network service launched in the area by Grameenphone yesterday.

Early arrival of winter in the northern district this year adds to the sufferings of poor people, especially those living in the char (landmass emerged from riverbed) areas.

Sixty-seven of 197 former enclave people who chose to become Indian nationals will say goodbye to their native villages at erstwhile Gotamari enclave in Hatibandha upazila and Banshkata in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat today.

The government-run 40-day job scheme meant for providing employment facility to the seasonally jobless farm labourers and ultra

As the children in the classroom open their English grammar books for the day's lesson, their teacher Fazlul Haque picks up his book too. But it is a bit different than the students' classroom books. It is in Braille, a system of raised dots that can be read with the fingers by people who are blind or who have low vision.

Fazlul Haque is visually impaired but he is teaching voluntarily at two schools including a govt primary school and a junior high school at the same campus at a remote village Charkhatamari in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila at the Dharla river basin.

A large number of farm labourers in the village areas of five upazilas under the district are passing a hard time amid seasonal job crisis

It's time for them to leave. For ever.

A young farmer in Lalmonirhat has single handedly brought in a change to the farming methods in his village and neighbouring areas through sheer hard work and dedication.

A gul (a tobacco dust product) factory is running illegally at remote Mahishkhocha village of Aditmari upazila under the district, polluting the environment there.

Over a thousand people of three villages of Dahagram-Angarpota in Patgram upazila under the district are badly

The ultra-sonogram machine and the x-ray machine at Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital have been inoperative for a long

Over 2500 people of Hatibandha and Lalmonirhat Sadar upazilas, hit by Teesta and Dharla erosion, have been living under the open sky

Over a thousand illegal structures have already been built on grabbed railway lands in different areas of the district while a section of occupiers are illegally selling 'possession' of such lands.

The Teesta River has devoured academic buildings and at least 50 homesteads in Dawabari village in Hatibandha upazila of the district

Around 15 thousand fish farmers in five upazilas under the district are badly affected by the ongoing flood that washed away fishes from their 4,000 fish farms.

Thousands of aman farmers affected by the recent flood in the district are facing uncertainty due to lack of saplings for replanting in their fields.

Cultivation of Pariza, a short duration paddy cultivated between boro and aman, brings happiness to a good number of farmers in the