School health centre fails to serve purpose
The school health centre in Saidpur municipality town, the lone hospital of its kind in the district, has virtually failed to achieve its goal due to lack of awareness campaign and publicity.
2m ago
Chilahati govt college limps
Academic activities at Chilahati Government College in Domar upazila are being hindered badly as the institution has been facing different problems for long.
3m ago
Primary schools see huge dropouts
Several government primary schools situated in the Teesta river basin areas in Dimla upazila are witnessing an increase in their dropout rate due to relocation of those institution far from the actual place.
4m ago
Remote village thriving on handicraft export
Haziganj village is becoming a hub for handmade products crafted from recycled materials as a few factories in the remote area of Gorgram union under Nilphamari sadar upazila are enjoying success in this regard.
6m ago
Indigo farming moving towards promising future
The history of indigo farming under British rule is still cause for indignation among many in Bangladesh as it reminds of the tyranny faced in having to cultivate the plant in place of food crops.
7m ago
Freedom fighter’s decade-long fight ends
After a decade-long battle, Nripendra Nath Roy is now a freedom fighter officially.
10m ago
Ceramic factories in north struggle for survival
Ceramic factories in underdeveloped regions of northern Bangladesh are struggling for survival as other than absence of natural gas, the ongoing US dollar crisis has led to a roughly 40 to 50 per cent increase in production costs.
11m ago
Saidpur railway workshop starved of manpower, funds
While the government aims to expand railway services across Bangladesh, the country’s largest locomotive workshop in Saidpur of Nilphamari is still unable to operate at full capacity as it lacks adequate manpower, funds and machinery.
1y ago
December 17, 2021
Cruel to the core
The words “Nazi forces” bring back memories of the horror unleashed at their concentration camps. What the Pakistani forces and their Bihari cohorts did at the Saidpur Railway Workshop in 1971 was as grisly as those events of World War II.
December 17, 2021
Nilphamari has good potential for tourism
Tourism in Rangpur’s Nilphamari could be a boon for the national economy as the district has glorious historical and natural sites to see, including some related to the Liberation War.
December 7, 2021
Farmers trying out alternative edible oil
Bangladesh is trying out cultivation of a plant which various Asian regions consider a handy source of ingredients essential to health.
November 18, 2021
Delays in govt procurement irk Aman farmers
Although Aman paddy farmers are harvesting the crop in full swing, the government is yet to make good on its promise to buy the kitchen staple through a national procurement drive that began earlier this month.
November 3, 2021
Improve Chilahati rail station to facilitate trade
Trade between Bangladesh and India through the Haldibari-Chilahati rail link resumed on August 1 after a 56-year hiatus but infrastructure of Chilahati rail station in Nilphamari district has remained inadequate.
October 26, 2021
Zakaria’s quest for self-dependence still elusive
Thirty-two-year-old Zakaria Hossain, a resident of Dakkhin Sonakhuli village in Nilphamari’s Dimla upazila, was not born blind.
October 6, 2021
Fast-yielding aman a lifesaver for farmers in lean period
Farmers in Nilphamari district of Rangpur division began harvesting their early-flowering aman paddy halfway through September, bringing a sense of festivity to the area.
September 30, 2021
Farmers pass busy days cultivating early-harvest potatoes
Farmers in Nilphamari district are cultivating a fast-growing variety of potato in order to maximise their profits before the year ends.
September 27, 2021
Nilphamari primary schools see dwindling attendance
The attendance of primary students in Nilphamari has seen a decrease of 13pc to 16pc after reopening of school following a long hiatus, which guardians and teachers say may be the result of the end of the school feeding programme.
September 9, 2021
Small jute mills attempt revival
Small jute mills of Rangpur division in the country’s northwest have resumed production after remaining shut for several months as raw jute prices soared after last year’s harvests and for the pandemic-induced business losses.
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