More than 130 kilometres out of total 240-km road network in Pabna Municipality are in a dilapidated condition due to lack of repairs and maintenance for prolonged period
On Saturday, residents of the two villages began the work to turn the earthen road to a brick road
The decline in production has caused significant losses for litchi farmers and traders
Cattle traders and farmers who rear livestock in anticipation of Eid-ul-Azha are disappointed over this year’s sales so far, as demand is low with barely a week to go before the festival.
Traffic congestion has worsened at Baghabari point due to ongoing concrete work
Ainul Haque, 70, a retired primary school teacher in Sayedpur village under Shahzadpur upazila of Sirajganj, lost his house to Jamuna river’s erosion five times in last 30 years.
The river devoured his house yet again, for the sixth time
A 20-bed trauma centre for accident victims, established beside the Jamuna Bridge in Mulibari area of Sirajganj, has yet to become operational in four years.
The mighty Padma now lies as a pale imitation of its former self. Depletion in the flow of water from upstream, along with deposition of silt, has choked the riverbed, rendering it nearly unrecognisable.
“Even a few years ago, I couldn’t fill my child’s feeder with milk. I would boil water and mix some biscuits with it to stop my child from crying out of hunger.”
Rayhan Sharif, the arrested doctor who shot his student during a viva on Monday, had bought his two pistols illegally from a southern district.
Ichamati, once a mighty river and a major lifeline for Pabna residents, has long been struggling to survive due to pollution and encroachment.
While Dhaka’s streets ran red in 1952 during the historic Language Movement, another torch flared in Pabna.
Honouring a centuries-old tradition, hundreds of curd and yoghurt traders gathered at the Eidgah field of Sirajganj’s Tarash upazila recently, marking Saraswati Puja
In a move that violates the law, the Pabna district administration has decided to lease out 31 sections of 10 rivers for fish farming. These areas are being labelled as “jalmahal” or enclosed government water bodies.
A plantation of flowers has turned the once mundane Dashuria intersection in Pabna into a spectacle.
Construction of an unplanned bridge supposedly for road connectivity is choking the Ichhamati river in Pabna Sadar upazila.
It is believed that the history of libraries stretches back 5,000 years, originating somewhere between ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. The history of libraries in our region is not well known, but modern libraries first popped up here around 1850, during British rule.
