With Pahela Baishakh just around the corner, the air in several villages of Baufal upazila in Patuakhali is thick with the scent of wet clay and fresh paint.
Ashiqur Rahman Hridoy, 16, was hit with 35 shotgun pellets -- three of them lodged in his head -- during a protest against the state crackdown on quota reform demonstrators in Dhaka’s Jatrabari on July 18.
Locals have allegedly been encroaching on the Rabnabad river in Patuakhali’s Galachipa upazila to cultivate watermelon.
What began as a makeshift market on the sands of Kuakata Sea Beach in Patuakhali, is now creeping illegally toward the shoreline to make way for a two-storey residential hotel and restaurant, allege locals.
The families of 25 fishermen from Barguna’s Patharghata upazila, who went missing while fishing at sea, are spending Eid amid despair.
The seismograph at Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU) has remained inoperative for nearly 14 years. Installed in 2010 at a cost of around Tk 50 lakh, the instrument failed to record Friday’s earthquake due to its non-functional status. .Experts believe round-the-clock moni
Despite spending Tk 6,500 crore on capital dredging, poor navigability has crippled Payra Port, forcing many importers to offload their cargoes either at sea or at Chittagong Port and then transport it through lighter vessels.
Mother vessels can no longer berth directly at Payra
In the village of West Chila in Barguna’s Amtali upazila, a young artisan is breathing new life into a fading tradition.
The Bogra to Bahechar GC road was carpeted on Sunday, but by Monday, multiple sections had caved in and others collapse
A functionally dead canal in the Gamoirtola area of Patuakhali’s Kalapara upazila has allegedly been encroached upon by a local resident, causing concern among farmers and residents.
Construction of the 24-metre bridge began in 2019-20 fiscal year and was completed in 2021 at a cost of Tk 2.82 crore
Although watermelon cultivation has surpassed the target and farmers are celebrating a bumper yield this season, prices remain three times higher in major cities than at farm-level rates in Barishal—one of the largest watermelon-producing hubs in Bangladesh.
The only government-run fish hatchery in Barguna, located in Amtali upazila, has been closed for nearly 20 years.
The construction of the Rangabali Upazila Health Complex in Patuakhali has been halted for the last eight months.
Within the last eight months, at least 10 iron bridges over different canals in Haldia and Chawra unions under Barguna’s Amtali upazila have collapsed, causing immense suffering to around 65,000 residents.
Patuakhali’s watermelon growers are witnessing a bumper harvest this year, with buyers rushing to purchase the fruit directly from the fields.
Ketab Ali Howlader, 72, a day-labourer from Sreerampur union in Patuakhali’s Dumki upazila, found himself in a legal battle when his niece Helena Begum who forcibly occupied seven decimals of his land and built three tin-shed houses on it.
