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.
Public ponds have been part and parcel of Jhalakathi town for centuries. But this heritage is now being lost due to illegal land
In 1960, British citizen and graduate Lucy Helen Frances Holt left the land of her birth and travelled to then East Pakistan to pursue
The distance is only three kilometres, but the sufferings are unlimited.
Education of 400 students of a high school in Rajapur upazila of the district is facing uncertainty as the school is under threat of being washed away due to the increasing erosion by the Bishkhali river during the last one month.
Poverty forces hundreds of fishermen of Barisal division to catch hilsa fish during the ongoing ban, despite the aid given by the government, which is not sufficient to meet their needs.
It used to be a straightforward process -- a landowner planning to construct a building in Barisal city would have to submit a building plan to the city corporation for its approval.
Fisher Abdus Sukur, from Jhalakathi's Rajapur, is finding life hard nowadays. Whereas once it was easy to make a livelihood from fishing in Jhalakathi's canals, over the last few years the fish catch has drastically reduced. To Sukur, as much as with other fishers in
A dam built across Baro Kathalia canal in Kathalia upazila under the district about eight years ago remains a nuisance for locals, especially farmers and fishermen.
Unmarked speed breakers have become death traps for commuters on the Barisal-Dhaka, Barisal-Khulna and Barisal-Kuakata
Around 50 kilometres of waterway on Dhaka-Barisal route is risky due to narrowness of a river, one of its sharp curves, hidden islands and inadequate signal lights demarcating the danger zones, said BIWTA officials and crewmen.
