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.
A two-year project to construct an extension building of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) in Barisal has not been completed in nine years, multiplying the accommodation crisis.
Commuting along Barisal-Khulna highway is a real hassle now, as a three-kilometre stretch on the highway from
He was born without legs but he did not let his physical disability stop him.
Timber trees are fast replacing fruit and medicinal trees and plants in different areas of the district, thanks to the mindless commercialisation in agriculture sector.
Thousands of people have been suffering as a broken bridge on Jhalakathi canal has been lying unrepaired for about ten years.
Recent accidents on Dhaka-Barisal naval route have made the passengers, vessel owners as well as masters bit
Unmarked speed breakers pose risk for commuters on three highways passing through the district.
The police administration has set Closed Circuit TV (CCTV) cameras on important spots in the district headquarters, upazila towns and
Indiscriminate encroachment and filling up of canals in the district have threatened agriculture and natural habitat of fish.
Defying congenital physical challenge and poverty, Rasel Talukder appeared at the HSC examinations this year as a business studies
