The World Bank (WB) will provide concessional IDA financing of $29.29 million for Northern Areas Reduction-of-Poverty Initiative (NARI) project aiming to economically empower poor women of northwes

RANGPUR, Nov 18: Gourd growers at different upazilas in Kurigram district are worried as the cultivation of vegetables is severely been affected on account of root rotting disease.

Introduction of solar power in the rural areas of Rangpur, Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts has ushered in a new hope for the people as electricity supply is not adequate in these areas.

Flooding in several northern districts in the Brahmaputra basin has worsened with the major rivers in the region rising sharply.

KURIGRAM : Unabated erosions by 12 rivers, including the Brahmaputra, Teesta and Dharla, have taken a turn for the worse, leaving some 3,400 families of over 100 villages in five upazilas of the di