CropsOpial, 73, of Char Bajra Diarkhata in Chilmari, Kurigram, has lost his homestead to Brahmaputra erosion 12 times. He has built a house in town for his son but still farms aman and maize on the char.
Some 150 boats land at Gatirghat in Kurigram across two daily sessions of a small-fish market that fishers say is nearly 200 years old, while catches fall and fuel bills rise.
HealthA pupil at a government primary school in Chilmari, Kurigram, found insects inside a school-feeding bun; the upazila education officer has ordered the whole batch returned and left unpaid.
With new chars rising, the river running shallow and rainfall patterns changing, catches in the Brahmaputra have fallen so far that many fishermen around Chilmari in Kurigram are turning to day labour and rickshaw pulling.
