Lalmonirhat

Teesta flooding should be a wake-up call

Bangladesh must push India to sign the treaty

Dried-up Teesta continues to haunt farmers

Bangladesh needs to find a realistic solution to a persistent problem

Journalist assaulted, camera vandalised in Lalmonirhat

A journalist is assaulted and his camera vandalised while taking photos of procession and counter procession of two Awami League factions in Hatibandha upazila town of Lalmonirhat.

Of a farmer with passion for education

Abdur Rashid is a marginal farmer revered and respected for a completely different role he has been playing for the last nine years in the remote village of Lalmonirhat's Dakkhin Dalgram Parshurampara.

Flood in North, Northeast: Over 1 lakh marooned

Floodwater has stranded over one lakh people in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram districts, following the inundation in Sylhet region.

College teacher gets life term for rape in Lalmonirhat

A college teacher in Lalmonirhat was given life term jail today for raping a student back in 2014.

House of knowledge

A few years ago when Jamal Hossain, from Tiparbazar village in Lalmonirhat's Aditmari upazila, was a student of class 10, he wanted to enter a literature competition. He hoped to recite a Nirmalendu Goon poem for Brac's Taray Taray Deepshika programme in Dhaka.

Flood-hit people's plight not over

For the last 42 days, the Water Development Board's dyke has been Delwar Hossain's home.

800 flood-hit Indians take shelter in Lalmonirhat

Around 800 flood-hit Indian citizens took shelter in several villages of Lalmonirhat Sadar and Aditmari upazilas on Monday night.

December 13, 2015
December 13, 2015

Lalmonirhat priest gets death threat

A priest of a church in Lalmonirhat has been threatened with death through a letter.

November 25, 2015
November 25, 2015

PM introduces 3G at Dahagram

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated 3G network at Dahagram enclaves in Lalmonirhat.

November 24, 2015
November 24, 2015

'Missing' Rangpur BNP leader ‘detained’ in Lalmonirhat

Rapid Action Battalion claims to have detained BNP's Rangpur city unit President Mozaffar Hossain from Lalmonirhat.

November 23, 2015
November 23, 2015

Leaving back their parents, two sons decide to start a new life (video)

As part of the process to relocate former enclave dwellers, 130 people of 30 families at five former enclaves of Patgram upazila in the district leave for India through Burimari-Changrabandha route.

November 9, 2015
November 9, 2015

[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.

August 1, 2015
August 1, 2015

Freedom's anxious wait over (video)

As the long wait of almost 70 years approached its end, Nurul Islam was gripped by a sensation he had not felt before - the anticipation of freedom.

July 26, 2015
July 26, 2015

Landless farmers harvest vegetables on floating farms (video)

Landless and marginal farmers in Lalmonirhat are planting vegetables on floating farms made on water hyacinth beds in the water bodies in the region. These farmers do not have lands. But they have ideas that has made them owners of virtual farmland.

July 20, 2015
July 20, 2015

979 enclave people opt to go to India

Total 979 people living in Indian enclaves inside Bangladeshi territory will move into mainland India with the implementation of land boundary treaty between the neighbouring countries.

July 9, 2015
July 9, 2015

BSF kills 1 on Lalmonirhat border

Indian Border Security Force guns down a cattle trader on Lohakuchi border in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat early today.

June 21, 2015
June 21, 2015

Farmers yield more on vermicompost fertiliser (video)

Over a hundred of small farmers in Lalmonirhat are living the golden days owing to the yield produced by vermicompost fertiliser.