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Too many potatoes, too little hope: Farmers resort to feeding spuds to livestock

10 April 2025
“With the market this bad, what else can we do?”
10 April 2025
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Tea output in northern plains down 20% in 2024

7 April 2025
Tea production in the northern plains dropped by nearly 20 percent in 2024, as erratic rainfall, poor market prices, and irregularities in factory accounting took a toll on the sector.
7 April 2025
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Eid without Abu Sayed: A family left in mourning

31 March 2025
Abu Sayed, a martyr of the July uprising last year, will be missing from his family's celebrations for the first time
31 March 2025
Hanging body of woman and daughter in Dinajpur

Dinajpur rape convict goes into hiding after HC bail stayed

23 March 2025
A life-term convict has gone into hiding shortly after the Supreme Court chamber judge stayed the High Court order that granted him bail in a case filed over the rape of a five-year-old girl in Dinajpur
23 March 2025
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Potato farmers facing losses

22 March 2025
Many struggling to cover costs and failing to avail cold storage facilities as prices dip
22 March 2025
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Dinajpur-Gobindganj highway rundown again 4yrs after Tk 882cr renovation

20 March 2025
The Dinajpur-Gobindganj regional highway, a vital road communication link, has become dilapidated and risky for vehicular movement within just four years after it was renovated and widened by the Roads and Highways Department at a cost of Tk 882 crore
20 March 2025
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Favourable weather boosts litchi yield hopes

7 March 2025
Dinajpur, widely known as the “Land of Litchis”, is experiencing a promising season, with thousands of trees across the district adorned in golden blossoms.
7 March 2025
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Dwindling trade threatens future of Banglabandha land port

1 March 2025
Once a thriving regional trade hub, Banglabandha land port—Bangladesh’s only quadripartite port linking India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh—is facing a severe downturn due to its heavy reliance on stone imports.
1 March 2025
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Even a little rain leaves campuses swamped

All it takes in Birganj upazila of Dinajpur is a little rain, a few millimetres of precipitation are sufficient, to submerge education.
18 July 2017
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Sundari's livelihood on grass sale

Fifty-year-old Sundari Bala, displaced by the erosion of the mighty Teesta river years ago, has chosen something different to earn her
13 July 2017

Disability fund swindled

A staggering half of the money allocated for 26 people with disabilities has been pocketed by union parishad (UP) members in Badalgachhi upazila of Naogaon.
10 July 2017
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Woman resists rape, tortured

Villagers in in Badarganj upazila of Rangpur on Thursday allegedly tortured a woman and cut off her hair moments after she had narrowly escaped being raped by a stalker.
8 July 2017
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Dinajpur temple sheds new light on distant past

Long-renowned for its archaeological wealth, the importance of the Dinajpur region to the study of ancient Bengali civilisation has
7 July 2017

Train ticket crisis in Joypurhat

Although it has been a week since Eid was celebrated across the country, people are still rescheduling their travelling date to reach
5 July 2017
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Bamboo bridge over Sati river

People of seven villages in Kaunia upazila of Rangpur erected a 400-foot-long bamboo bridge over the Sati river as they had been
5 July 2017

Train schedules collapse

Thousands of Dhaka-bound passengers suffered long delays due to a collapse in train schedules on Dinajpur-Dhaka
5 July 2017
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Giver of blessings

Abdul Jalil, 52, from Nayanpur in Dinajpur municipality is well-known throughout the district town, but not always by name.
29 June 2017
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Culvert of no use

The culvert over a canal in Atrai upazila of Naogaon is of no use to the people due to absence of approach roads.
19 June 2017
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Iftar for street people

When the clock strikes 6:30pm, people, mostly poor and street people, sit in several rows at Rangpur Railway Station platform, and a bunch of young people start serving Iftar to them.
19 June 2017

Double blow for burnt victims

Burn patients at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) are in agony as none of the air conditions (ACs) is working since May 10 in the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit in the scorching heat.
15 June 2017
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Rice mills still lack monitoring

The authorities concerned are yet to develop a minimum monitoring system for overseeing rice mill boilers, even after the April 19 deadly boiler explosion in Dinajpur Sadar.
14 June 2017
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2 boiler blast survivors leave hospital

Md Badal Ali, who lost his three brothers in a deadly boiler explosion in Dinajpur Sadar upazila on April 19, returned home at Uttar
6 June 2017
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Friend of fasting people

Kamal has been supplying cold drinking water for the last eight years free of cost to the poor people of his locality, helping them to
5 June 2017
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Rain water inundates paddy in Rangpur

Almost ripe paddy on 200 hectares of land on the bed of the nearly dead Sati river in Kaunia upazila of Rangpur has become flooded,
25 May 2017
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Bad news for litchi lovers

"Modhumash is nothing if you do not taste the litchi of Dinajpur."
22 May 2017

Peanut farming gets popular in Naogaon

Peanut farming is gaining popularity among farmers in Naogaon as they can cultivate it at a little cost and get good profit.
18 May 2017
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Sajna boon for growers

Sajna is a boon for its growers of two upazilas in the district as they are getting high price for this seasonal, highly nutritious vegetable.
10 May 2017

Rokeya University: BCL men confine VC to his office

Chhatra League leaders and activists of Begum Rokeya University (BRU) in Rangpur confined Vice Chancellor Prof AKM Nurun Nabi to his office around 11:30am yesterday demanding the VC appoints BCL leaders to several university posts on an ad hoc basis.
3 May 2017

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