The Barind region, known as the rice bowl of Bangladesh, faces a great catastrophe with its groundwater levels depleting fast. In this water-stressed region, irrigation tubewells have now become a tool for the people with political clout to exploit farmers. Santal farmers killed selves being deprived of irrigation water
Barind Farmers: At mercy of ‘water lords’ Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.
On April 9, Mukul Soren, a Santal farmer in Rajshahi, drank pesticide in a suicide attempt over the same irrigation deep tubewell that allegedly led to the suicide of two farmers, also Santals, last year.
RAJSHAHI, Aug 23, 2023 (BSS)- Expressing their grave concern over the present water declining situation, government officials and scientists unequivocally
Police arrested two staffers of Barind Multipurpose Development Authority (BMDA) from Dhaka early today (September 19, 2022) in connection with the attack on two journalists of ATN News.