Kongkon Karmaker

Jute growers in Rangpur are getting better prices than before as many factories in the division are using the natural fibre to produce various Shataranji goods such as carpets and handbags for export, according to industry insiders.

The Hindu community in Dinajpur starts celebrating Durga Puja, the largest religious festival of the Hindus in the country, with Shoshthi rituals at 1,281 mandaps in the district tomorrow. 

A huge demand for coal in China has had a butterfly effect that may reach Bangladesh’s construction, garment, and power generation industries as the highly-required fossil fuel is becoming increasingly expensive in global markets.

The poultry industry in Rajshahi’s Joypurhat district has grown expeditiously over the past two decades thanks to the breakthrough breeding of Sonali chicken, a cross-breed of Rhode Island Red cocks and Fayoumi hens.

Several hundred trucks have been waiting outside the Banglabandha land port for the past 12 days for space to be made available for exports to be offloaded on the Indian side.

Years of efforts by the government in protecting aquatic life through banning the use of ‘current net’ in waterbodies of the country will go in vain unless the use of ‘China Dowari’ fish trap -- growing increasingly popular in Rangpur region -- is barred as well.   

Taro stolon, which is “Kochur Loti” in Bangla, has turned into a boon for farmers of Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat as its consumption has slowly grown locally and internationally over the years.

Sales of hard rock at Maddhapara Granite Mining Company Limited (MGMCL) have come to a standstill due to snail pace ofrock production as uncertainty starts looming over the renewal of the contract with the present contract holding company, which is scheduled to be ended on September 2 this year.

Belongingness, willingness, compassion and leadership go a long way when it comes to overcoming any difficult situation or task.

All nine sugar mills operating across the country may face a shortage of sugarcane this year as the total farming area of this cash crop has declined by almost half compared to previous growing seasons.

Many Bangladeshis are facing slow death from silicosis after their return from India following years of work at stone crushing fields in different states of the neighbouring country.

With the number of Covid-19 patients increasing every day, M Abdur Rahim Medical College and Hospital in Dinajpur is overflowing. As of yesterday, around 200 people occupied the hospital’s 130-bed Covid unit.

Vegetable farmers in Rangpur and Dinajpur incurred huge losses amid the lockdown when they were finding it difficult to send crops to Dhaka and other parts of the country as truck operators were demanding high fares on different grounds.

Alam Hossain took to rearing about 100 cattle at his farm in Bakalipara village under Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur in spite of the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic last year hoping to become self-reliant.

With the massive surge of Covid-19 patients in the eight districts of Rangpur division, authorities of two major Covid treatment hospitals in Dinajpur and Rangpur have stopped taking patients with acute symptoms, as all ICU (Intensive Care Unit) beds remain occupied.

The growers of Haribhanga mango variety in Rangpur are expecting a good yield of this delicious seasonal fruit this year, which is considered a revolutionary crop in changing the agriculture economy in the district over the last ten years.

Since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country in March last year, the officials, staffers and miners of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL) have been virtually leading a confined life inside company premises to prevent the spread of the highly transmissible contagious viral infection in the mining complex.

Two months into the second wave of Covid-19 in the country, shutki (dried fish) traders and producers of Rangpur division are yet to recover from the losses they incurred during the first wave of the pandemic.

Even though Covid-19 cases have been rising alarmingly since the last couple of weeks in Rangpur, there is still no ICU support at the hospitals in six districts of the division.

Ignoring the Monthly Payment Order (MPO) Policy 2021, an acting principal of a government college, has been enjoying amenities of two jobs since he was elected mayor of Dinajpur’s Birampur municipality in January this year.