She is unable to do anything with her hands since her birth. But it could never stop Arifa Akhter from pursuing her dreams. Defying all predicaments, the indomitable Lalmonirhat girl sits for her Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations. She became the subject of curiosity as she started writing with her legs.

Until he breathed his last early this morning, former Jatiya Party MP Mazibar Rahman thought about the welfare of the people of his constituency-- Aditmari and Kaliganj upazila in Lalmonirhat--from where he was elected MP seven times.

Construction of the 850-metre-long Second Teesta Bridge over the river in Kaliganj of Lalmonirhat is yet to be completed even though a deadline for its completion expired in June last year.

At least 500 bighas of prime farmland loses productivity in five upazilas of Lalmonirhat every year, as their topsoil is sold to feed around 40 local brick kilns.

Man-made intervention in the upstream turns Teesta a wild river in monsoon and a desert in winter.

Three persons die in Dhaka, Rajshahi and Lalmonirhat after a 6.7 earthquake, epicentered in India’s Imphal, rocked Bangladesh.

“We used to have bumper crops here,” says farmer Mahir Uddin of Char Kalmati village in Lalmonirhat. “The Teesta River used to flow year-round but nowadays there's not enough water in winter for optimal agriculture.”

“For each phensedyl bottle we carry over the border,” says drug mule Robiul Islam, 24, of Lalmonirhat sadar upazila's Mogholhat, “we are paid 20 taka.”

Never learning how to walk, 28-year-old Abul Kalam Azad vowed never to get beat down and instead hardened his resolve to “stand his own ground” all his life. It was not easy for him, growing up in the rural town of Lalmonirhat as a physically challenged individual – undermined by the society and often considered a burden.

A hundred voices tuned in to sing Amar Sonar Bangla to mark the first ever Victory Day in the recently dissolved enclaves in the northern district of Lalmonirhat.

A priest of a church in Lalmonirhat has been threatened with death through a letter.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has inaugurated 3G network at Dahagram enclaves in Lalmonirhat.

Rapid Action Battalion claims to have detained BNP's Rangpur city unit President Mozaffar Hossain from Lalmonirhat.

As part of the process to relocate former enclave dwellers, 130 people of 30 families at five former enclaves of Patgram upazila in the district leave for India through Burimari-Changrabandha route.

Fazlul Haque is visually impaired but he is teaching voluntarily at two schools including a govt primary school and a junior high school at the same campus at a remote village Charkhatamari in Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila at the Dharla river basin.

As the long wait of almost 70 years approached its end, Nurul Islam was gripped by a sensation he had not felt before - the anticipation of freedom.

Landless and marginal farmers in Lalmonirhat are planting vegetables on floating farms made on water hyacinth beds in the water bodies in the region. These farmers do not have lands. But they have ideas that has made them owners of virtual farmland.

Total 979 people living in Indian enclaves inside Bangladeshi territory will move into mainland India with the implementation of land boundary treaty between the neighbouring countries.

Indian Border Security Force guns down a cattle trader on Lohakuchi border in Aditmari upazila of Lalmonirhat early today.

Over a hundred of small farmers in Lalmonirhat are living the golden days owing to the yield produced by vermicompost fertiliser.