S Dilip Roy

Burimari union, a border village nestling in a nook of the Indian district of Cooch Behar, is a village of stones and stone-crushing yards.

The structures built to facilitate tourism at the 82-acre Sal forest in Nawdabansh village in Lalmonirhat’s Hatibandha upazila have been lying unused for about five years now due to lack of necessary utility connections.

Thousands of people from the district leave home to work as brick kiln labourers in different areas of the country during the dry season from mid-October to April every year.

Local people have been suffering for the last seven years due to the awful state of the station road beside the district central mosque and Islamic Foundation office in the town.

Jute production in Lalmonirhat has decreased to less than one-third in the last two decades as low profitability of the cash crop discourages farmers.

Father of a rape victim in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila has filed a complaint with the deputy inspector general of police in Rangpur alleging that a sub-inspector had forced his family to marry off their daughter with a man who raped her.

About three decades ago, Lokman Ali of Baroghariya Adarshapara village in Lalmonirhat’s Aditmari upazila had lost his land and other

An audit report has found serious anomalies regarding spending of fund of Nechhariya Kamil Madrasa at Sadar Hospital Road in

Import and export businessmen as well as locals are badly suffering due to awful condition of the three-kilometre road under the

The Lalmonirhat Airport, abandoned since World War II, is set to be transformed into Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Aviation and Aerospace University (BSMRAAU), the first of its kind in the country.

Garbage cans haphazardly placed across Lalmonirhat town have become a nuisance for its residents.

The Teesta River, originating in the Himalayas, travels a long way through the mountains and plain land before reaching Bangladesh.

The flood affected victims of Lalmonirhat have very little to look forward to this Eid. Many have lost their homes and source of income and are struggling to make ends meet.

Poor people living in different remote char areas along the Teesta river in Lalmonirhat have sought help to build houses on raised lands as 16 homesteads made above the flood level at Char Sindurna in Hatibandha upazila provided shelter to the affected people during the recent floods.

Thirty-five teachers in Lalmonirhat’s Hatibandha upazila have complained that they were under pressure to bribe the authorities in order to receive their dues for working under a literacy programme of the government that ended over a month ago.

Local varieties of fishes are facing extinction amid disappearance of waterbodies and spread of fast growing hybrid fish cultivation in Lalmonirhat.

Talukder Rice Mill is registered with the local food office and eligible to sell rice to the government. According to papers, it is located in Jummapara village of Lalmonirhat sadar upazila. But when this correspondent went to visit the mill recently, all he found at the location is an abandoned concrete surface, two tin-roof houses, and a poultry farm.

It’s Friday afternoon. She lost everything to the river before her eyes. It was not the first time. The flood victim’s life has been chained to the wrath of nature for years.

Basic Literacy Project (64 Districts) run by the Bureau of Non-formal Education (BNFE) under Primary and Mass Education Ministry did not bring any fruitful results in two upazilas of the district due to alleged irregularities and corruption.

Hundreds of commuters cross the Teesta Railway Bridge every day risking their lives as the longevity of the age-old bridge on the Teesta river in Sadar upazila expired in 2001.