Despite high demand at retail markets where it is selling for good prices, lemon growers are failing to sell the produce at profitable rates due to a drop in the number of interested buyers at Bhimruli wholesale market in Jhalakathi Sadar.
It’s water, water everywhere. Strong current coupled by the fierce gales has inundated almost everything that can be seen through the eerie darkness. Women and children have been huddled in a boat tied up with a tree in a nearby jungle with men straining every nerve to survive the perilous night by grasping something firm.
As the crisis originating from the coronavirus deepens, people, especially the poor and needy, are looking up to their local leaders to deliver.
An inadequate supply of testing kits to detect the novel coronavirus across Barishal division has become a headache for doctors in the region.
As some people with more regularised jobs and businesses gradually begin to work from home or enter stay-home modes across the country, livelihoods of low-income people are being hit hard.
Coconut grower Shahinur was shocked to see how a single green coconut was being sold for Tk 80 in Barishal city near Sher-E-Bangla Medical College Hospital. But, at her village, in close proximity to the city, she recently sold each coconut to traders for only Tk 12.
Fishermen of Elisha village and nearby areas in Bhola Sadar upazila can now aspire to be literate as a group of local youths under the banner of East Elisha Foundation, a voluntary organisation, started a school for them.
How long does it take to complete a two-year project for constructing a medical facility? For a government hospital struggling to cope with patient flow, the answer is more than a decade.
Treatment at Rajapur Upazila Health Complex under the district is badly hampered as water supply has remained suspended since the pump machine there went inoperative on Monday.
A dam built across Baro Kathalia canal in Kathalia upazila under the district about eight years ago remains a nuisance for locals,
The only X-ray machine at Rajapur Upazila Health Complex has remained out of order for about five years, much to the suffering of patients.
Thousands of people including students are badly suffering as an under construction bridge over a canal near GK High School on Nijgalua-Pakapul road in Rajapur upazila under the district has remained incomplete for years.
Thousands of farmers in Kathalia upazila under the district cannot cultivate their lands as tidal water from Bishkhali River regularly floods the area in absence of an effective embankment there.
As the only floating guava market in Jhalakathi, Vimruli attracts orchardists keen to sell their daily harvest from across the district.
Thousands of people have been suffering a lot as the steel bridge over the Halta River, which collapsed at Amua port of Kathalia upazila
Around 1,500 salt workers of Jhalakathi are passing days amid hardship as sale and production of salt sees drastic fall due to the non-
