KM Rezaul Hoque

Farmers in the northern district are passing busy time for planting Boro seedlings, ignoring the biting cold during the peak cultivation season.

At least two century-old rail bridges on Santahar-Lalmonirhat rail tracks, which connects the capital with cities in northern districts, continue to be in service despite their ramshackle state.

Over a thousand people, mostly women, living in extreme poverty in Palashbari upazila have found a way to bring home some extra income without investing any money.

After meeting winter clothing needs of the country’s low and limited-income groups, knitwear factories in Kochashahar union of Gobindaganj upazila are now looking to export their goods overseas.

Obstructing outdoor games, the headmaster of a high school in Gaibandha’s Fulchhari upazila has been cultivating black lentils on the school playground for the last two years.

Petbhata village in Rangpur is now known as Oushodhi Gram (village of herbs) as hundreds of families there are gaining solvency by planting herbs.

Prolonged flood in the char lands of Gaibandha district has completely damaged aman seedlings causing local farmers to worry about their crops. However, with advice from agriculture officers, farmers found a solution in the floating seedbed technology.

The famous red chilli market on the bank of the Jamuna at Gajaria in Gaibandha’s Fulchhari upazila has been running under the open sky for over a decade, much to the sufferings of sellers and buyers.

At least nine brickfields are functioning on crop lands and residential areas in Saghata upazila of the district, posing threat to environment, agriculture and public health.

As many as 112 people were killed and 703 others injured in over three hundred road crashes along 32 kilometers highway across the district in the last five years.

Farmers of Bhangamore area in Saghata upazila are worried over survival of transplanted Aman seedlings on about 500 acres of land if the water level in the Jamuna basin rises, as a large breach along the flood control embankment has not been repaired as yet.

In and around Mathorpara village, in Gaibandha's Shaghata upazila, it's become usual for every newborn child to be welcomed into the world with the planting of a tree. The tradition began three years ago by 28-year-old visual artist Gopal Chandra Barmon, as an extension of a tree-planting hobby carried from boyhood.

Following last year's successful cultivation of high yielding Purple paddy during the Borto season, the agriculture department in Sundarganj upazila under the district has started plantation of its seedlings to see the production ratio in the ongoing Aman season.

Dulali Begum was curious about the purple paddy grains she saw while visiting her relatives house in Gazipur last year. She collected some grains and decided to give it a try at her home in Gaibandha.

Even after 47 years of independence, they are yet to get salaries under the national pay scale despite their huge contribution to

Jobeda isn't the only woman whose husband divorced her when her father couldn't pay the full dowry. Nor is the 32-year-old tailor

No crop has been cultivated for years on nearly 2,500 bighas of land due to longstanding waterlogging in Burungi Beel of Saghata upazila.

Ramdakua bridge on Sundarganj-Ulipur road across a branch of the Teesta river is yet to be replaced two years after

A number of electric poles in Gaibandha Sadar and Palashbari upazila remained dangerously tilted for the last two

A young cobbler in Gaibandha Sadar has changed his lot, thanks to his innovative idea that inspired him to set up a small shoe factory at Dariapur Bazar in the upazila.