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ifty-two educational institutions have been forced to suspend academic activities after they had gone under water.

The rising water is also causing panic among the people. Locals said new areas were suddenly submerged after 8pm on Wednesday and the Sherpur-Jamalpur Highway Porar Dokan diversion had gone under knee deep water within the night.

Kurigram

The Brahmaputra, Dudhkumar and Dharla rivers were flowing 130cm above their danger marks at Chilmari Ghat point, 101 cm at Noonkhawa point and 9cm at Dharla Bridge point respectively at 6:00am today, according to the control room of Kurigram WDB.

But water levels in all the 16 rivers of the district including the Brahmaputra, the Dudhkumar, the Dharla and the Teesta decreased compared to previous days.

The control room said the Brahmaputra, Dudhkumar, Dharla and Teesta rivers decreased two centimetre (cm) at Chilmari Ghat point under Chilmari upazila, two cm at Noonkhawa point under Sadar upazila, six cm at Dharla Bridga point under Sadar upazila and 23 cm at Kaunia Ghat point under Kaunia upazila of Rangpur respectively within last 12 hours.

The district relief and rehabilitation office (DRRO) sources said some 6,14,596 people of 1,53,649 families in nine upazilas of the district were marooned by the floodwater while 4,996 peo