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More than 50,000 residents across 30 villages in Rowmari upazila of Kurigram district are struggling with everyday difficulties due to the absence of a concrete bridge over the Holholia River.People living in three unions, Datbhanga, Char Shoulmari and Saheber Alga, face frequent accidents, risking ...
A snake charmer died after being bitten by a venomous snake while attempting to catch it in Nageshwari upazila of Kurigram on Wednesday morning.The incident occurred at Kapali Para village under Ballober Khas union.The dead, Boyez Uddin, was a resident of Daktar Para in the same union.According to l...
Once hailed as the golden fibre of the country, jute is now fighting for survival in Fulbari upazila of Kurigram district, as a persistent water crisis stalls the crucial retting process, leaving farmers anxious and uncertain about their yields.Despite fields brimming with ripe jute, many farmers ar...
Under the slogan “No Place for Discrimination in the Land of the July Revolution”, a human chain was held in Ulipur, Kurigram, protesting the exclusion of kindergarten and private school students from the Primary Scholarship Examination for Class Five.The protest took place on Thursday i...
At least three people were killed and 10 others injured in a violent clash between two rival groups over a land dispute in Kurigram's Roumari upazila on Thursday.The incident took place around noon at Bhundur Char village near the Bangladesh-India border in the upazila.The deceased were identifi...
Police have arrested four individuals in a raid on a counterfeit cigarette factory from Ulipur upazila in Kurigram district on Monday afternoon. The arrested were identified as Abul Khayer, 35, Harun Mia, 29, Shamsul Alam, 45 and Nojiyar Rahman, 60. All of them are residents from Mirganj Pathan Para...
An elderly man, Abdul Momin (68), died after a rooftop railing collapsed on him at a mosque in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram on Saturday evening. The incident occurred around 7 PM at Apuar Khata Jame Mosque in the Pandul Union. Momin was a resident of the area and the son of the late Rahim Uddin.Accord...
What was supposed to be a blessing has turned into a source of frustration for hundreds of families living in remote char areas of Kurigram’s Ulipur upazila.A solar electrification initiative, meant to bring power to homes beyond the reach of the national grid, has instead left residents disil...
Two people were killed and three others critically injured in a road accident involving a drum truck and an auto-rickshaw in Bhurungamari upazila of Kurigram on Sunday.The accident occurred at Ghuntighar on the Bhurungamari-Sonahat land port road. The dead have been identified as Banu Mia, 30, an au...
Dharla River at Char Gorokmondol, a remote village in Phulbari upazila of Kurigram district made 50 families homeless. A huge establishments and crop lands were eroded.Over the past several days, the river’s relentless erosion has swallowed more than 50 homes and devoured hundreds of bighas of...
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized illegal Indian mobile phone display from Phulbari upazila in Kurigram district on Tuesday.According to BGB, acting on a tip-off, a team of BGB-15 battalion under Anantapur camp conducted a raid at Nagrajpur area under the upazila at 12:30 PM on Tuesday.During...
Inadequate supply of ducklings and hatching eggs from Kurigram Regional Duck Breeding Farm leaves local duck farmers in the district growingly frustrated.Established in 2016 on three acres of land, the farm was launched with the goal of combating poverty through the promotion of backyard duck farmin...
Two executive magistrates from the Kurigram district administration conducted separate mobile court drives at Kurigram General Hospital, local diagnostic centers, and three pharmacies.Executive Magistrate Md. Badruzzaman Rishad fined two diagnostic centers a total of Tk 1,10,000 under the Consumer R...
Due to pragmatic steps by the local administration, the illegal sand excavation from the river Brahmaputra in Chilmari Upazila of Kurigram has been completely stopped. Sources said that earlier, sand was being extracted illegally from various places of the Brahmaputra River using Volket ( mechn...
“Aiming to decrease the use of tobacco products, the tobacco farmers should be discouraged at first to cultivate tobacco. Local Agriculture Department Officials and the concerned department staff should work uninomously to encourage the Tobacco cultivators to cultivate Potato and Maize instead...
As per the directives of the Deputy Commissioner of Kurigram, Nusrat Sultana, steps have been taken to make 27.2 square-kilometre Kurigram Municipal area free from water-logging. According to sources, after the establishment of Kurigram Municipality in 1972, so far 50 kiolmetres of drains have ...
The water level Brahmaputra, Dharla and Teesta has increased due to torrential rain and upstream onrush of water. The river erosion takes a serious turn as the people living in the river banks have lost everything, including their houses.Akkel Mamud Community Clinic, Kuder Kuti Kashem Bazar Jame Mos...
The newly-appointed Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Kurigram Nusrat Sultana held a view-exchange meeting with the journalists of the district Press Club at the conference room of the deputy commissioner’s office on Monday.Additional Deputy Commissioner (Revenue) Uttam Kumar Roy was also present at...
The 46th founding anniversary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was celebrated at Ulipur in Kurigram on Sunday.On this occasion, the national flag and the party flag were hoisted at the party office there on Sunday afternoon. Later, a discussion meeting and doa mahfil were held.Upazila BNP presi...
More than one hundred saplings of Orange and Malta were distributed to the students of Shishu Niketon School from Kurigram District Police in Kurigram on Monday.This operation of Kurigram police will continue as the previous year with the motto “Shabuj Kori Kurigram” or “Let’...
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