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Kurigram to introduce temporary cards to ensure fertiliser reaches genuine farmers

2 HOUR(s)
‘Soil Health Protection Cards’ expected to curb black-market fertiliser sales
2 HOUR(s)
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Fertiliser protest: Case leaves Kurigram farmers living in fear

21 September 2026
Farmers in at least five villages under Kurigram’s Bhurungamari upazila say they are living in fear of arrest and harassment after a case was filed over a protest demanding adequate fertiliser earlier this month that left the upazila agriculture officer briefly confined by an agitated crowd.
21 September 2026
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Century-old boat race draws thousands on Dharla river

16 September 2026
Boat race revives a fading tradition of rural Bengal
16 September 2026
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Locals suffer as Teesta devours key road

9 September 2026
Nearly 300 metres of an unpaved road along the Teesta riverbank in Khuniagachh union of Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila have been eroded over the past one month, causing severe hardship for more than 2,000 families living in several shoals nearby.
9 September 2026
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Fertiliser still stuck in supply chain maze

9 September 2026
Bangladesh has enough fertiliser, the government says. Dealers say they have stocks. Yet farmers in several districts say authorised dealers are refusing to sell or capping them at one sack, forcing many to buy from unauthorised sellers at inflated prices.
9 September 2026
Teesta River erosion Lalmonirhat

Teesta swallows 300-metre road, disrupts lives of 2,000 families in Lalmonirhat

7 September 2026
Farmers bear extra time, labour and transport costs after erosion makes road unusable
7 September 2026
Ganapati Chakraborty family murder case Rangpur

Rangpur murders: Two weeks on, motive is still unclear

4 September 2026
Two weeks have passed, and police still cannot explain the motive behind the gruesome killing of four members of a family in Rangpur city.
4 September 2026
Ganapati Chakraborty family murder case Rangpur

Where did around Tk 15 lakh go? Ganapati withdrew it weeks before family killings

30 August 2026
Relatives and former colleagues say the slain Rangpur teacher withdrew the provident fund money 22 days before the killings; police are still trying to trace it
30 August 2026
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40-day job scheme starts in Lalmonirhat

The government-run 40-day job scheme meant for providing employment facility to the seasonally jobless farm labourers and ultra
17 November 2015
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Tale of a visually impaired teacher

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.
9 November 2015
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[WATCH NOW] The blind Teacher

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.
9 November 2015
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Farm labourers passing hard time in Lalmonirhat

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
8 November 2015
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Time to leave

It's time for them to leave. For ever.
6 November 2015
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Young farmer sets example

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.
26 October 2015
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Illegal tobacco gul factory pollutes environment

A gul (a tobacco dust product) factory is running illegally at remote Mahishkhocha village of Aditmari upazila under the district, polluting the environment there.
21 October 2015
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Villagers suffer as bridge unused for damaged approach road

Over a thousand people of three villages of Dahagram-Angarpota in Patgram upazila under the district are badly
15 October 2015
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X-ray, ultrasound machines lie inoperative for months

The ultra-sonogram machine and the x-ray machine at Lalmonirhat Sadar Hospital have been inoperative for a long
15 October 2015
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Teesta, Dharla continue to devour homesteads, cropland

Over 2500 people of Hatibandha and Lalmonirhat Sadar upazilas, hit by Teesta and Dharla erosion, have been living under the open sky
12 October 2015
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Railway land under illegal occupation in Lalmonirhat

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.
4 October 2015
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Teesta devours schools, 50 homesteads in 3 days

The Teesta River has devoured academic buildings and at least 50 homesteads in Dawabari village in Hatibandha upazila of the district
30 September 2015
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Flood brings woe to fish farmers in Lalmonirhat

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.
9 September 2015
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Flood damages vast aman fields in Lalmonirhat

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.
2 September 2015
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Pariza paddy brings smile to farmers in Lalmonirhat

Cultivation of Pariza, a short duration paddy cultivated between boro and aman, brings happiness to a good number of farmers in the
18 August 2015
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Villagers foil land grabbing bid in Lalmonirhat

Villagers foiled a local gang's attempt to grab 23 decimals of land of a family at Ananda Bazar village in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila early
15 August 2015
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46 workers die of silicosis in three years

Silicosis, an incurable disease caused by silica dust, has taken the lives of 46 workers in the last three years in 25 limestone grinding
13 August 2015
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Railway canal under illegal occupation in Lalmonirhat

A portion of the one-kilometer-long railway Fuleshwari canal has been illegally grabbed at Dalpatti Bazar area in Lalmonirhat town.
11 August 2015
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A different day for students, teachers of remote school

It was a different day for the students of Karim Uddin Public High School in Kaliganj upazila under the district as a London-based teacher
11 August 2015
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Hundreds in misery as Dharla devours houses, croplands

Centenarian Sharat Chandra Devnath sat on the Dharla river bank, looking very upset, as his homestead with 15 decimals of land at
8 August 2015

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