Once a vibrant waterbody crisscrossing through Barguna’s Amtali town, the century-old Basugi canal is now on its deathbed due to rampant encroachment and pollution.
On November 17 last year, as Cyclone Midhili crossed the coast of Bangladesh, 25 fishermen from Patuakhali’s Rangabali upazila, who were in three trawlers in the Bay of Bengal, went missing.
A tributary of Rabanabad river merges with the Andharmanik river to form an estuary in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali before the rivers descend to the Bay of Bengal.
Saidul Islam, a 25-year-old from Dashmina upazila in Patuakhali, once dreamed of building a stable life for his family. But the light of that dream has been extinguished -- both figuratively and literally.
Just six months after Tk 6,500 crore was spent on capital dredging, Payra Port’s Rabnabad channel has lost much of its navigability, pushing up coal transport costs for the power plants in the area.
Fish farming in Patuakhali has taken a new turn with increasing interest in coral fish farming through artificial feeding
Amid the backdrop of all other coal-based power plants in the country, including India’s Adani, the production of a unit of Payra Thermal Power Plant went into maintenance today
The Kalapara-Dhankhali road in Patuakhali’s Kalapara upazila has begun collapsing in several areas, with cracks forming in many sections.
Zainal Howlader, a resident of Kalikapur village under Patuakhali’s Bauphal upazila, died in 1969.
'I recently received a notice from Krishi Bank saying that my father had taken a loan of Tk 50,000 in 2014 from the bank. But my father died in 1969, how could he take the loan in 2014?' questions Abul Bashar, a retired policeman
Some local influential people in Rangabali upazila of Patuakhali have been setting up fish enclosures grabbing a section of the Darchira river.
Tidal waves and strong winds under the influence of Cyclone Remal damaged more than 200 small and medium fishing trawlers in Barguna’s Patharghata.
In an instance of unplanned development work, two electric poles are standing in the middle of an approach road to a bridge on a canal in Char Montaj union of Patuakhali’s Rangabali upazila.
There is no dedicated building for the Gazipur Bazaar police outpost in Amtali upazila of Barguna for 18 years.
At a time when people are becoming more aware of the need to save trees for the sake of the environment, local authorities of Kuakata in Patuakhali opted to axe several trees to renovate the boundary wall of a school
At a time when efforts to combat climate change repercussions have intensified through forest conservation and extensive tree plantations, thousands of trees, across different species, are succumbing to adverse effects of climate change in the reserve forest area of Kuakata sea beach in Patuakhali district.
Around 200 families from four unions under Patuakhali’s Rangabali upazila are passing days in fear of losing their lands and homes to erosion of Buragauranga river.
At least 169 out of 798 government primary schools in Barguna district are in a dilapidated condition.
