A significant number of roads within Bhola municipality, including several vital ones, are in a dilapidated state, causing immense suffering to locals.
Patients and their families have alleged severe mismanagement, overcrowding, and poor healthcare services at the medicine ward of Barishal’s Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH), which is currently operating out of a cramped five-storey building not originally designed to serve patients.
Around five kilometres away from Jhalakathi district town, past the buzzing Kirtipasha bazaar and post office to the outskirts where the urban cacophony begins to fade, a colossal relic of Bengal’s feudal history rises like a spectre through the foliage- the Kirtipasha Zamindar Palace.
A government study has found Aedes mosquito larvae in 31 percent of the samples collected from homes in Barguna town.
The archive remains closed as no staff have yet been appointed for its operations
Living in boats on the Arial Khan river, the Manta survive on fishing and loans -- without access to education, proper documentation, or state support
Madrasas shift to direct sales, disrupting traditional trade
A significant number of roads within Bhola municipality, including several vital ones, are in a dilapidated state, causing immense suffering to locals.
Patients and their families have alleged severe mismanagement, overcrowding, and poor healthcare services at the medicine ward of Barishal’s Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH), which is currently operating out of a cramped five-storey building not originally designed to serve patients.
Around five kilometres away from Jhalakathi district town, past the buzzing Kirtipasha bazaar and post office to the outskirts where the urban cacophony begins to fade, a colossal relic of Bengal’s feudal history rises like a spectre through the foliage- the Kirtipasha Zamindar Palace.
A government study has found Aedes mosquito larvae in 31 percent of the samples collected from homes in Barguna town.
The archive remains closed as no staff have yet been appointed for its operations
Living in boats on the Arial Khan river, the Manta survive on fishing and loans -- without access to education, proper documentation, or state support
Madrasas shift to direct sales, disrupting traditional trade
Fishermen in Bhola borrow to celebrate Eid amid Hilsa crisis
Some nursery owners even leased arable land to grow Acacia saplings like a regular crop
In a nostalgic nod to the past, the iconic paddle steamer is being prepared for reintroduction as a daytime “heritage cruise” in June, shortly after Eid-ul-Azha.
