DHAKA : The flood situation in Sylhet and Kurigram districts has worsened due to incessant rain and onrush of water from the upstream, reports UNB.

RANGPUR : The farmers have incurred huge production losses of over 2.78 lakh tonnes of crops worth over Taka 587 crore following recent floods in eight northern districts along the Brahmaputra basi

Jamalpur Deputy Commissioner Md Shahabuddin said new aid and relief would be provided within two days

Erosion by the River Brahmaputra took a serious turn in the last one week, rendering at least 300 families in different villages homeless in Sadar and Rajibpur upazilas of Kurigram district.

A human chain was formed on Saturday at Nayarchor area under Rajibpur upazila in Kurigram to prevent river erosion.
Hundreds of people from all walks of life attended the human chain.

The river erosion will also render as many as 35 thousand people landless

The government aims at alleviating poverty further in five districts of Rangpur division by creating employment opportunities under the new phase of a poverty alleviation scheme.

The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday approved the ‘Ensuring employment for the poor in Northern Region Programme’ (2nd phase) at a cost of Tk 94.88 crore to f

The rainwater harvesting project across nine upazilas in the district has failed to attract people to the use of rainwater instead of that from tubewells.

RDRS Bangladesh has set up 1,300 solar power units in char areas and other backwards villages inhabited by the ethnic minority communities so far in the region