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.
When Sagor Howlader, 10, was riding his bicycle near his house last Sunday afternoon, he had not imagined how a normal day was about to take a turn for the worse.
The one-kilometre Rupatoli road, from Amtola Mor to Rupatoli bus stand in Barisal city, has been in a bad shape for a long time, causing untold sufferings to commuters of all six districts in Barisal division.
The ongoing hot weather has brought blessings for the cool mat weavers at Napiterhat village in Rajapur upazila as the demand
She was first chained to the bed. Then she was beaten up with a stick and an iron rod all over the body.
Marufa Akhtar continued pursuing education after marriage and her illiterate in-laws did not like it.
Agricultural land for growing paddy is decreasing rapidly in the district as many farmers have started using the land for different purposes.
Students of Jagodishpur Primary School in Jhalakathi sadar have been attending classes on the school verandah since 2015 because of
The great poet Jibanananda Das would not wish to return to the bank of the Dhanshiri river if he knew about its present condition.
Though hospital is a place where hygiene is given utmost priority, upon visiting Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barisal, the notion will change completely.
SSC examinee Raiad has become synonymous with regularity at school, attending all his classes for 12 years since start of his schooling alongside performing well in examinations.
