Life has been one living struggle for 16-year-old Manik Rahman. Lacking two hands and having paralysis in one leg, Manik managed to score an A+ in the SSC exam by writing with his only usable foot.
Memories of the legendary political leader Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani, who died on this day in 1976, still remain fresh in Kamat Angaria, a remote village in Bhurungamari, Kurigram, located just four kilometres away from the Assam border.
There is commotion in Nageshwari upazila of Kurigram district over the laying of black eggs by a native variety of duck. A duck rearing by one Ibrahim Ali in Nageshwari of Kurigram reportedly has laid two black-coloured eggs.
A local court today (September 29, 2022) placed Lutfar Rahman, headmaster of Nehal Uddin Pilot Girls' High School on a three-day remand in connection with question paper leak of SSC exams in Kurigram’s Bhurungamari upazila.
Police have arrested three more people, including two teachers, for their alleged involvement in leaking the question paper of SSC examinations in Bhurungamari upazila of Kurigram.
Three teachers have been detained for their alleged involvement in leaking question paper of two subjects of SSC examinations at Bhurungamari upazila in Kurigram.
Several hundred people, who were recently affected by erosion of the Dharla river, formed a human chain for an hour on the river bank in Phulbari upazila in Kurigram this (September 11, 2022) noon demanding a dam to prevent erosion.
A 40-feet long bridge constructed by Disaster Management Division at a cost of Tk 30,77,656 that collapsed in Borobhita union under Phulbari upazila of Kurigram before it was even inaugurated, has not been repaired even after four years.
Most of the flood victims in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram are yet to receive their share of the flood rations even though 863 metric tonnes of of Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) rice was allotted for 86,315 poor families on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha.
On the banks of the Brahmaputra River is a remote region known as "Haker Char". There are 950 families consisting 4,000 people in this char.
