K M Rezaul Hoque

Due to freshly deposited silt in the Jamuna river, ferry services along the Balashi Ghat terminal in Gaibandha and Bahadurabad Ghat terminal in Jamalpur are almost at a halt.

Northern winters can be cold. At 67-years-old it would be understandable if Marium Begum, from Panchgachi Santiram village in Gaibandha's Sundarganj upazila, said she really feels it: not only the cold of the winter air but from long years of struggle.

It's Friday. Gideri Bilateral High School in Gaibandha Sadar upazila should be quiet, but far from empty, around 160 students from

Fungus attack on paddy fields is discolouring the crops in Palashbari upazila, much to the worry of the farmers.

The local people are very happy as a road is being built on the dried up tributary of the Teesta river in Sundarganj upazila of the

Hye Mia, 34, of Uttar Ghagoa village in Gaibandha Sadar upazila knows what it's like to be poor and unemployed. Fortunately, it seems the directionless years of struggle which characterised his young adulthood, are finally behind him.

With sudden rise of water level in the Jamuna, flash floods inundated immature kali boro, an early variety of boro paddy, on 20 hectares of

A mysterious disease at remote Khatiamari village in the Jamuna River basin area of Fulchhari upazila under the district has become a