Dev projects threaten Chalan Beel
Development projects around Natore’s Chalan Beel, a significant freshwater reservoir, are obstructing its natural water flow, leading to waterlogging and harming agriculture, according to locals and experts.
10m ago
Putting everything at risk to build a park
Houses, roads, shops, bridges and culverts near Atrai river in Natore’s Singra upazila are at risk of being ruined, all because the local UP chairman has reportedly been lifting sand from the riverside for a hi-tech park that is being constructed in the upazila.
1y ago
Zilla Parishad polls: Natore MP Shimul enters voting centre violating rule
Shafiqul Islam Shimul, lawmaker from Natore-2 (Sadar, Naldanga) constituency, reportedly entered a polling station violating electoral code of conduct during the ongoing zilla parishad elections.
1y ago
Natore-Bogura highway: another name for suffering
The work to widen the busy Natore-Bogura highway was scheduled to be completed in December 2021. Later, it was extended to June 30, 2022.
1y ago
Narco ‘let go’ from Rab custody?
A court in Natore has directed the Police Bureau of Investigation to probe into an allegation that Rab let go a suspected drug dealer in custody in Lalpur upazila of Natore.
2y ago
Road-crash tragedies stalk his family
Munira Akter, mother of Rajshahi University student Mahmud Habib Himel, could not shed any tears seeing the coffin of her only son, but her blank eyes made everyone around her choke up.
2y ago
Natore ‘Work for Money’: Poor deprived as graft rules
A government scheme aiming at generating income and ensuring food security for the rural poor has plunged into corruption and irregularities in Natore.
3y ago
Saving cultivable land: Govt going for eco-friendly Uni-Block in road construction
To protect cultivable land and save the environment, the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) in Natore has been using environment-friendly Uni-Block -- made of sand, cement and gravel -- for the development of rural roads as an alternative to bitumen and ordinary bricks.
3y ago
May 4, 2017
Evicted ethnic people living woeful life
Fifteen indigenous families at Madhnagar village of Naldanga upazila in the district are living an inhuman life following their eviction from there Tuesday morning.
January 2, 2017
Free books made conditional
The joy of the government-sponsored textbook festival eluded many young learners in the district town on the New Year yesterday as
December 4, 2016
Law at mercy of lawmakers
The lawmakers in a district are the advisers to the zila parishad. They are only supposed to advise the parishad on discharging its functions, according to the Zila Parishad Act.
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