Azibor Rahman

A canal excavation gone wrong?

The excavation of a 13-kilometre canal in Jhenaidah Sadar upazila has brought significant hardship to residents of Charmuraridah and Makimpur villages. .The Bangladesh Water Development Board began the excavation in December 2022, completing it in July 2023 at a cost of Tk 2.55 crore. Whil

3m ago

Jashore-Jhenaidah road in a sorry state

The 45-kilometre road connecting Jashore and Jhenaidah districts has been in a dilapidated state for quite a while.

4m ago

A nuisance on school ground

The premises of Kharashuni Government Primary School in Jhenaidah Sadar upazila has remained occupied since last Ramadan, storing materials of a road construction project by the district administration.

6m ago

From outlaws to flower growers

Former members of outlawed groups in Jhenidah rebuild their lives as flower growers.

9m ago

Busy as a bee!

Anyone visiting Magura and its adjoining Jhenidah will notice a certain change in the scenery: the croplands look like yellow and green canvases.

1y ago

Kumar river under threat

A portion of the Kumar river is being filled up with sand for construction of a permanent bus stand in Magura’s Sreepur upazila.

1y ago

Blockades, strikes stifling flower market

As per data of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) in Jhenaidah, flowers were cultivated on 254 hectares of land for the ongoing fiscal year.

1y ago

A son of the soil

Age is just a number. And Md Helal Uddin of Maheshwarchanda village in Jhenaidah’s Kaliganj upazila is a perfect example of that.

1y ago
March 22, 2015
March 22, 2015

6 of 24 schools in Jhenidah are yet to be rebuilt

Six of 24 government primary schools, torched and vandalised by the activists of BNP-led 20-party alliance in the district the night

March 20, 2015
March 20, 2015

Incomplete road brings woe to commuters, farmers

A five-kilometre portion of the 21-kilometre road from Kaliganj Bazar in Kaliganj upazila to Dakbangla Bazar in Jhenidah Sadar upazila

March 18, 2015
March 18, 2015

Solar solution for Jhenidah farmers

There is no power in the village, but an initiative by a farmers' cooperative has boosted their hopes of bumper crop yields in the

March 4, 2015
March 4, 2015

Women of Neamotpur fight to alleviate poverty

Eleven women including students are working hard to support development effirts in their villages in all respects. They belong to Neamotpur union under Kaliganj upazila. They get together twice a month for taking decisions on what they could do to improve their area. They are trying to build up their villages as models in the country by forming village development committees. On top of household work, they inspire men and women to get united irrespective of party and politics. They bring together people from fish cultivation, vermicompost, poison free vegetables, etc.

February 25, 2015
February 25, 2015

The mystery of a deserted village

At the moment, the village is desolate. There are numerous marks of past human habitat but at present it looks abandoned. There is evidence that a village used to exist here and it is also in the map of Kotchandpur upazila in Jhenidah.

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