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Kongkon Karmaker

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

“With the market this bad, what else can we do?”
10 April 2025, 15:34 PM

Tea output in northern plains down 20% in 2024

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, 18:00 PM

Eid without Abu Sayed: A family left in mourning

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, 06:15 AM

Dinajpur rape convict goes into hiding after HC bail stayed

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, 16:43 PM

Potato farmers facing losses

Many struggling to cover costs and failing to avail cold storage facilities as prices dip
22 March 2025, 18:00 PM

Dinajpur-Gobindganj highway rundown again 4yrs after Tk 882cr renovation

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, 13:37 PM

Favourable weather boosts litchi yield hopes

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, 18:00 PM

Dwindling trade threatens future of Banglabandha land port

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, 18:00 PM

A trendsetter in handwriting

Chetana Bikash Model School in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur has become a trendsetter by training over 200 students on handwriting.
15 January 2020, 18:00 PM

Cold, dense fog affect Boro seedbeds in Dinajpur

The ongoing cold weather accompanied by dense fog has started affecting the Boro seedbeds in the district, much to the worry of farmers.
11 January 2020, 18:00 PM

The last of the Koras

They took part in laying rail tracks -- one of the primary infrastructural backbones of the country. Several of them fought for the country’s independence in 1971.
5 January 2020, 18:00 PM

Restaurants in Dinajpur slash use of onion

Amid a rise in onion prices, the use of the cooking ingredient has dropped significantly in the restaurants in Dinajpur.
25 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Rice gets pricier

After soaring prices of onions, consumers now have to deal with rice prices creeping up over the last few weeks.
18 November 2019, 18:00 PM

User-friendly features a far cry

Jagannath Chandra Roy was looking forward to attend the programme on dignified equality and prevention of violence against women at the newly renovated auditorium of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU) on Thursday morning.
17 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Bamboo as electricity poles!

Residents of Pirjabad in Rangpur town are under serious risk of getting electrocuted as several hundred houses in the area have been using electricity by drawing power lines with the help of bamboo poles.
10 October 2019, 18:00 PM

Ershad’s nephew, BNP reject result

BNP’s Rita Rahman and independent candidate Shahriar Asif, who is HM Ershad’s nephew, have rejected the results of the by-election to Rangpur-3 constituency, bringing allegations of vote rigging.
6 October 2019, 18:00 PM

Rangpur-3 goes to polls today

With around 4.42 lakh people expecting to exercise their franchise, election to Rangpur-3 constituency (Sadar upazila) will be held today.
4 October 2019, 18:00 PM

A last-ditch bid for unity

With only one day left for the by-polls to Rangpur-3 constituency, senior leaders of Jatiya Party (JP) have held a meeting with local leaders and activists to put aside their differences and work together to make sure that their candidate win the election.
3 October 2019, 18:00 PM

One last effort to woo voters

With yesterday being the last day of campaigning for the by-election to Rangpur-3, candidates spent a busy day visiting different neighbourhoods in the constituency and trying to persuade prospective voters.
2 October 2019, 18:00 PM

Battle of cousins heats up

With only a few days left for the by-election to Rangpur-3 constituency, aspirants are passing busy days in electioneering. The by-election is slated to be held on October 5.
30 September 2019, 18:00 PM

Indigo farming boon for growers

After 160 years of ‘Nil Bidroho’, the iconic peasant movement over cultivation of one of the original sources of blue dye--Indigo, many growers in Rangpur are now making a fortune by planting that very plant.
11 September 2019, 18:00 PM

JP camp heats up over nominations

Jatiya Party’s politics is heating up in Rangpur since the announcement of by-election schedule to Rangpur-3, that fell vacant with the death of party leader HM Ershad.
4 September 2019, 18:00 PM

Town turns a waste dumping ground

Heap of garbage, a major source of environmental pollution, has been piled up almost everywhere in the town in absence of regular cleanliness drive by the authorities concerned, making people’s lives intolerable.
1 September 2019, 18:00 PM

Independence Day Today: THE NORTHERN UPRISING

The resistance during the 1971 Liberation War began in Rangpur early March and it was a full-on war even before the black night of March 25.
25 March 2019, 18:00 PM

A couple dedicated to education

Otherwise an ordinary couple, Faruk Hossain and Sabera Akter have been doing a laudable job, working to prevent dropout at schools and to provide literacy to elderly people for the last 10 years.
20 March 2019, 18:00 PM

The good doctors

Only two doctors have been tending to patients round the clock for the last three months at the 50-bed Birganj Upazila Health Complex in Dinajpur.
26 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Life in cage for years

With her rare mental disorder, a six-year and two-month-old girl has been leading her life in a bamboo cage for years at Sadipur (Salimpara) village in Sadar upazila.
29 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Ethnic voters to be a factor

Voters belonging to ethnic minority community can influence results at six constituencies of Rangpur and Rajshahi regions in the 11th Parliamentary Election today.
29 December 2018, 18:00 PM

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