EAM Asaduzzaman

Massive attack of brown plant hopper worries paddy farmers in Jaldhaka and Sadar upazilas of Nilphamari as Aman harvesting season is a couple of weeks away.

A metalled road obstructs flow in Bogra major branch canal under Teesta Irrigation Project at Belaichondi village in Parbatipur upazila as Bangladesh Water Development Board’s (WDB) Saidpur divisional office in Nilphamari failed to follow rules while constructing the canal.

A larger number of farmers in Nilphamari are cultivating early varieties of winter vegetables for a higher profit margin and a reduced risk, as opposed to that of traditional crops such as paddy, jute and maize.

With the objective of providing treatment and healthcare to injured and sick birds, a hospital has been set up on the Saidpur upazila parishad premises.

Mehedi Hasan was once an ordinary worker at a factory in Dhaka’s Mirpur area.

Children of indigenous Musahar community living at Subarnakhuli village on the border of Nilphamari Sadar upazila and Dinajpur’s Khansama upazila are deprived of schooling as their lone institution Subarnakhuli LSS Primary School has remained under lock and key for the last two years.

Once mighty Kumlai river, flowing through different villages of Dimla upazila in Nilphamari, is now left dissected into pieces as influential locals have encroached on it at various points to build houses and other establishments.

It is difficult to predict the weather in Rangpur division as the meteorological offices here are conducting their operations with analog system equipment. Besides, the only radar in the divisional office, which cover eight northern districts,remained out of order for the last seven years.

Around three lakh people of Nilphamari Sadar and Kishoreganj upazilas are badly suffering as an important bridge over the Charalkata river at Parerhat on Kishoreganj-Babrijhar road has remained incomplete after the contractor concerned left, keeping the work half done over a year ago.

Naresh Chandra Roy was 27 years old when he joined the Liberation War in 1971.

Chemical waste from privately-owned Equ Paper Mill Ltd beside Dhaka-Dinajpur highway in Saidpur upazila is pouring into the

The 18-kilometre main canal of the country's largest Teesta irrigation Project is increasingly becoming vulnerable due to lifting of earth and sand from the embankments by some unscrupulous people.

Merina Begum was having a video phone call with an agriculture officer when this reporter approached her maize field at Dakkhin Kharibari Char, a sandy area of the Teesta River basin in Nilphamari's Dimla upazila.

With maize cultivation growing more popular each year, wheat cultivation in Rangpur agriculture region is seeing a significant decline.

Although security has been beefed up in Saidpur Airport recently, passengers and locals claimed that it was only noticeable at the time of landing and departure of aircrafts but remained lax in other times.

Twenty years ago, Dholuram Roy slipped while catching a running train and four months after that fatal accident he returned home with both his legs amputated from knees. He was 17 then.

People like porters, day labourers and betel leaf sellers are guarding six closed railway stations in Parbotipur-Chilahati section under the West Zone (WZ) of Bangladesh Railway (BR) for over a decade under a temporary arrangement.

Any health-conscious person visiting the government-run Leprosy Hospital in Nilphamari may notice an irony that a large chunk of land belonging to the hospital is being used for growing tobacco.

Around 50,000 people of 20 villages in Sadar and Jaldhaka upazilas of the district have been suffering for around three years as construction of a bridge over Burikhora river on important Ramnagar-Mirganj Road has not been completed.

Local influential people have occupied almost all the 3,602 acres of land, worth around Tk 500 crore, belonging to relief and disaster management ministry in four upazilas of the district and built residential buildings, business centres and many other structures due to lack of proper monitoring by the department concerned.