Development projects around Natore’s Chalan Beel, a significant freshwater reservoir, are obstructing its natural water flow, leading to waterlogging and harming agriculture, according to locals and experts.
Houses, roads, shops, bridges and culverts near Atrai river in Natore’s Singra upazila are at risk of being ruined, all because the local UP chairman has reportedly been lifting sand from the riverside for a hi-tech park that is being constructed in the upazila.
Shafiqul Islam Shimul, lawmaker from Natore-2 (Sadar, Naldanga) constituency, reportedly entered a polling station violating electoral code of conduct during the ongoing zilla parishad elections.
The work to widen the busy Natore-Bogura highway was scheduled to be completed in December 2021. Later, it was extended to June 30, 2022.
A court in Natore has directed the Police Bureau of Investigation to probe into an allegation that Rab let go a suspected drug dealer in custody in Lalpur upazila of Natore.
Munira Akter, mother of Rajshahi University student Mahmud Habib Himel, could not shed any tears seeing the coffin of her only son, but her blank eyes made everyone around her choke up.
A government scheme aiming at generating income and ensuring food security for the rural poor has plunged into corruption and irregularities in Natore.
To protect cultivable land and save the environment, the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) in Natore has been using environment-friendly Uni-Block -- made of sand, cement and gravel -- for the development of rural roads as an alternative to bitumen and ordinary bricks.
Development projects around Natore’s Chalan Beel, a significant freshwater reservoir, are obstructing its natural water flow, leading to waterlogging and harming agriculture, according to locals and experts.
Houses, roads, shops, bridges and culverts near Atrai river in Natore’s Singra upazila are at risk of being ruined, all because the local UP chairman has reportedly been lifting sand from the riverside for a hi-tech park that is being constructed in the upazila.
Shafiqul Islam Shimul, lawmaker from Natore-2 (Sadar, Naldanga) constituency, reportedly entered a polling station violating electoral code of conduct during the ongoing zilla parishad elections.
The work to widen the busy Natore-Bogura highway was scheduled to be completed in December 2021. Later, it was extended to June 30, 2022.
A court in Natore has directed the Police Bureau of Investigation to probe into an allegation that Rab let go a suspected drug dealer in custody in Lalpur upazila of Natore.
Munira Akter, mother of Rajshahi University student Mahmud Habib Himel, could not shed any tears seeing the coffin of her only son, but her blank eyes made everyone around her choke up.
A government scheme aiming at generating income and ensuring food security for the rural poor has plunged into corruption and irregularities in Natore.
To protect cultivable land and save the environment, the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) in Natore has been using environment-friendly Uni-Block -- made of sand, cement and gravel -- for the development of rural roads as an alternative to bitumen and ordinary bricks.
Cropland is decreasing at an alarming rate in Natore as farmers have been digging pond on their agricultural land for fish farming to earn more profit.
Chalanbil's freshwater shutki (dried fish) is in demand all over the country. However, due to lack of competitive markets, the sole proprietor in the region is paying exploitative amounts to the fishermen and those who prepare the shutki.