By ABM Ripon in Prothom ALo, Oct 3, 2023Lakshmipur: Before the 2014 election, all four of Lakshmipur’s parliamentary seats were in BNP’s control. The party leaders and activists would consider this BNP’s stronghold. Then in 2014, all four of these seats slipped away from BNP. Since then, Awami League dominates the district politics there. In 2015, Miah Golam Faruk was made the district Awami League president and Nuruddin Chowdhury the general secretary. A section of…
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By Parbat Portel in The Kathmandu Post, June 07, 2023The writer is the Jhapa correspondent for Kantipur Publications.Demand for Nepali tea is rising in the Indian market as production has slipped across the border. Nepali tea traders say Indian tea estates are going through a lean period as the tea bushes there have reached the end of their life cycles. Most of the plants are 80 years old, and some are more than 100 years…