World Food Day / The fight for safe food production in Bangladesh
Why are farmers spending extra money to use an unhealthy amount of chemical fertiliser and pesticides?
16 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Potato farmers hold back stock as prices crash
Cultivation of new potatoes also falls; experts blame govt’s poor planning, policy gaps
15 October 2025, 14:56 PM
Bangladesh’s mango boom at risk without urgent attention
Many farmers are considering abandoning mango cultivation due to sharply rising production costs.
7 October 2025, 06:00 AM
Northern farmers paying more for TSP fertiliser amid low supply
Farmers in the northern districts are paying Tk 47 to Tk 50 per kilogramme for triple superphosphate (TSP) fertiliser this Aman season, while the government rate is Tk 27.
14 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Contraceptive crisis grips health centres
An acute shortage of contraceptives in health centres across the country is severely affecting reproductive and maternal healthcare, with marginalised communities in rural and remote areas suffering the most. .At community clinics, Family Welfare Assistants (FWAs) usually provide free cont
13 September 2025, 20:48 PM
Sapahar: The heartland of mango trade
If you stand at the Charmatha Zero Point of Naogaon’s Sapahar upazila town between June and August, all you see for nearly 2.5 kilometres in every direction are vehicles laden with crates of mangoes. .A decade ago, such a sight was unimaginable for locals..For three months each year,
29 August 2025, 19:55 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
Protect our farmers from their grievances
Farmers are disconnected from the government, lacking timely support, even during natural disasters.
24 February 2025, 02:00 AM
Diversity of Bogura pottery in peril
Looking at the yogurt tubs made by Bogura’s potters, it is difficult to imagine that the ceramics industry once flourished in the region.
12 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Bogura Youth Choir celebrates 43 years
Bogura Youth Choir, a renowned socio-cultural organization in the northern districts, observed 43 years of establishment recently.
5 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Schools waterlogged half the year
Students of a primary school and a high school in Santahar municipality area of Adamdighi upazila cannot play sports and games on their school ground as it remains waterlogged for six months a year.
26 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Discarded notes, no magic realism
On Sunday, locals in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila woke to what seemed to be an absurd sight: bank notes floating in a waterbody near the Khaowra bridge area.
24 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Kahaloo Theatre prepares for Bangabandhu’s birth centenary with Indo-Bangla plays
Bogura’s Kahaloo Theatre, an associate of the Bangladesh-Gram Bangla Theatre, organised the Indo - Bangla Drama Festival recently, at the upazila auditorium in Kahaloo.
15 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Tangled up in trauma
Tumpa (not her real name) grew up in her maternal grandfather’s house in a small village of Bogura’s Dhunat upazila and was a seventh-grade student at a nearby high school.
8 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshi youth revolutionising country’s fruticulture from Italy
Amid all the difficulties of earning a living in a foreign land, an expatriate Bangladeshi in Italy has been contributing immensely to pomology or fruticulture of Bangladesh for the past two years.
25 August 2019, 18:00 PM
Chest Disease Hospital without consultant for nearly a year
Patients are being deprived of proper treatment at Bogura Chest Disease Hospital (CDH) as there is no doctor for chest disease at the 20-bed hospital for nearly 10 months.
15 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Series set for Bangladesh women’s teams
While the Bangladesh men’s team are currently participating in cricket’s biggest event -- the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup -- in England, Bangladesh’s women cricketers have been toiling hard at the Shaheed Kamaruzzaman Divisional Stadium in Rajshahi ahead of their tour of South Africa
4 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Purple passion fruit now grows in Naogaon
The curious mind of Sohel Rana has led him to try his hand at growing the purple passion fruit at Rupgram village of Nagaon’s Sapahar upazila.
25 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Paddy Procurement System: Farmers lose out due to moisture
The required level of moisture content set by the authorities has become another big headache for Boro growers hit by falling prices, as it makes most of them ineligible to sell their produce to the government.
2 June 2019, 18:00 PM
Rice Procurement by Govt: Lists of farmers raise questions
Two government lists of farmers as Boro paddy suppliers are not what they look like.
Many of them are anything but farmers. They include shopkeepers, a contractor and even a former city councillor engaged in a profession other than paddy cultivation.
31 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Char children getting poor schooling
It was late March. Around 3:30pm, the Biramer Pachgachchi Govt Primary School was already closed, an hour too early. So was the nearby Kashirpara Govt Primary School. Both schools face a similar problem --neither the students nor the teachers are much interested in class.
12 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Welcoming a winged newcomer
Birdwatchers across Bangladesh already have an abundance of bird species to watch, photograph and marvel at. However, every now and then, one will get lucky enough to find a new addition to our already blossoming flora and fauna.
25 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Rare disease holds back young talent’s future
Every person crowding the stall at Baishakhi fair was trying to take a peek at the strikingly accurate portraits sketched by a young artist.
24 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Meet the 'ek takar master'
Four decades ago, a 29-year-old man who had studied up to SSC level started teaching children at his village in Gaibandha for Tk 1 a day.
15 March 2019, 18:00 PM
3 dorms closed for nine yrs
Three student dormitories at Government Azizul Haque College in the district have remained closed for nine years, creating severe accommodation crisis for many students.
14 March 2019, 18:00 PM
1947 to 1971 through photographs
A day long photo exhibition was held at the campus of Govt Azizul Haque College in Bogura recently. Surrounding the spirit of the International Mother Language Day, the exhibition focused on the period from 1947 to 1971.
4 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Bogura's sport: rich product from a poor factory
Mushfiqur Rahim is now a household name for sports lovers as the cricket craze has reached every nook and corner of the country.
24 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Chhoto Bhimraj: Seen in north '1st time in a century'
On a late December morning, an hour-long stroll through the centuries-old Bamboo forest surrounding the Gandagram village of Shajahanpur upazila revealed the sight of hundreds of small colourful minivets. In awe of such an astonishing sight, I suddenly spotted something different.
10 January 2019, 18:00 PM