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.
The new extension of the Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barisal will finally see the light of day as the construction work of the much-awaited building has started once again, after six long years.
Green coconut trade is now boon for middlemen but bane for farmers.
Famous Bengali poet Jibonananda Das in one of his poems expressed his desire to return to the bank of Dhanshiri river for its beauty and attraction, but if that happens, he might not get the chance of standing on its bank, thanks to the mindless grabbing of the river.
He wanted to be a banker but a single incident on this day in 2011 changed his life forever.
Agricultural lands are decreasing in the district as they are being used for other purposes, threatening agriculture.
The resident students of dilapidated Kobi Jibanananda Das Hostel yesterday started moving into a new accommodation facility at
All the five canals of Rajapur upazila are under threat of disappearance as they are being grabbed by the people living on their banks.
Thousands of farmers in five upazilas of the district now face serious trouble in transporting their produce as most of the canals,
Believe it or not, a good number of newborn babies with their mothers find their living place on the open space due
River communication in the district is being disrupted due to unplanned construction of hundreds of bridges, culverts and box culverts
