Bhola

Cyclone Sitrang: Rain halts launch services in Barishal, Bhola

Launch and speedboat movement on 12 routes from Barishal river port has been suspended due to heavy rains and gusty wind caused by cyclone "Sitrang" formed over the east-central Bay.

'New gas field' found in Bhola

Explorers have struck gas about 32km north of the Shahbazpur Gas Field in Bhola, a southern coastal district. A total of 600 billion cubic feet of gas has been found in Bheduria union, Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam disclosed to reporters at the Secretariat yesterday.

Bhola gas real: Bapex

Country's energy explorer Bapex has completed two pending geological tests to confirm existence of high-pressured extractable natural

No new gas field, yet it's big news

The gas field in Bhola has the potential to become the largest reserve of natural gas in the country, surpassing Titas in Brahmanbaria, geologists told The Daily Star yesterday.

New gas field found in Bhola

Bapex has found a large gas reserve at Shahbazpur of Bhola.

Roanu Fallout / Classes being affected in 50 Bhola schools

Education activities at Pubro Ahamedpur Primary School in Bhola's Charfession are being hampered since Cyclone Roanu struck last

Death of Youth in Bhola Firing / ‘Torture’ triggered clash

Influenced by a local Awami League activist, police had tortured a Chhatra Dal leader of Bhola that triggered Thursday night's clash

Youth killed as villagers clash with cops

A youth is shot dead in clash between villagers and cops when the latter went to Rajapur area of Bhola Sadar upazila to arrest a local Chhatra Dal leader.

Justice stumbles at every step

The government must pay Tk 50 lakh in compensation to a man for his wrongful conviction in a rape case 12 years ago, the High Court ruled yesterday. Abdul Jalil of Char Fashion in Bhola was only 15 when the rape incident took place in 2001.

May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016

Roanu-marooned people in misery

Several thousand cyclone stricken people in Tajumuddin upazila of Bhola are passing miserable days under the open sky.

May 22, 2016
May 22, 2016

Roanu takes 23 lives

Twenty-three people are killed and 13 more are missing after Cyclone Roanu made landfall yesterday afternoon on Chittagong-Noakhali coast. Accidents caused by the storm were the reason for the fatalities in Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Bhola, Noakhali, Patuakhali and Laxmipur.

May 21, 2016
May 21, 2016

Cyclone Roanu: 20 killed in 5 districts

At least 20 people have been killed in Chittagong, Bhola, Cox's Bazar, Noakhali and Patuakhali as Cyclonic storm Roanu makes its impact across the country. It crossed Bangladesh in the evening, leaving a trail of devastation.

April 2, 2016
April 2, 2016

Bank robbery foiled in Bhola, guard injured

A security guard is stabbed by robbers as he attempts to resist a robbery bid at a branch of Krishi Bank in Charfashion upazila of Bhola.

March 7, 2016
March 7, 2016

Unsolicited deal for Indian company?

The authorities may award an unsolicited contract to an Indian company to build a medium-sized power plant in Bhola island that would run on gas from Shahbazpur gas field or on imported petroleum, according to a competent source in Power Development Board (PDB).

February 23, 2016
February 23, 2016

35 Jamaat-Shibir men held in Bhola

Police detain 35 local leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir and recovered petrol bombs from them in Lalmohon upazila of Bhola.

July 30, 2015
July 30, 2015

6 killed, 6 missing in cyclone ‘Komen’

At least six people have been killed and six missing in Cox’s Bazar, Patuakhali and Bhola, coastal areas of Bangladesh, with cyclone ‘Komen’ waiting at Bay to make landfall.

June 11, 2015
June 11, 2015

6 drown as trawler sinks in Meghna

Six people including four children drown and 20 missing as a trawler carrying 50 passengers capsizes in Meghna river in Monpura upazila of Bhola.

June 11, 2015
June 11, 2015

Man behind the misery of 52 families (video)

A resident of Charfashion's Uttar Mangal village in Bhola district, Broker Faruque Hossain confesses about his human trafficking crimes to the law enforcers in front of The Daily Star.

June 2, 2015
June 2, 2015

Gallant fight to win back husband

A young woman in Mymensingh stages hunger strike to win back her husband who refused to accept her as wife even after one and half years of their marriage.