July 19, 2021
Cattle train receives lukewarm response
A “cattle train” service rolled out by Bangladesh Railway seems to have fallen flat as just a single locomotive carrying 200 sacrificial animals for Eid-ul-Azha began its journey to Dhaka on Saturday.
July 12, 2021
Covid hospital in Pabna full to brim
Sohrab Bishwas (70) came to Pabna General Hospital all the way from Kismat Protappur village under the Sadar upazila on Wednesday. He came in with respiratory problems, along with other symptoms of...
July 4, 2021
Cattle traders in a blue funk as Covid rages on
The worsening Covid-19 situation has generated apprehensions among cattle farmers of Sirajganj and Pabna, two of the biggest cattle rearing hubs of the country.
July 3, 2021
Bringing smile to two young faces
Two students of Supto Sikha Protibondhi Vidhyalaya, a school for children with special needs, have become a source of pride for Bera upazila as well as Pabna because their paintings earned a place...
June 23, 2021
Weavers miss out on duty-free import
A duty-free facility meant for weavers has allegedly been misused to import about Tk 400 crore worth of raw materials.
June 16, 2021
Devouring Jamuna: Despair is all they feel
After the Jamuna river eroded the banks on which his ancestral home stood in Shahzadpur upazila’s Koizuri village a few years ago, Md Shawkat Ali shifted his residence further inland into Koizuri...
June 16, 2021
Fishermen of Gohala river being driven out by influentials
A group of fishermen who have been fishing in the waterbody of Gohala river at Shahzadpur upazila in Sirajganj for generations has alleged that they are not able to fish in the river as a section...
June 13, 2021
Peanut brings smile to char farmers in Pabna, Sirajganj
Md Aiyub Khan, a farmer of Kollanpur char in Pabna’s Bera upazila, cultivated 10 bighas of land to produce 100 maunds of peanut, the only crop that can be grown on sandbanks.
June 5, 2021
Brimming Padma draws visitors in Pabna, residents of low-lying areas worried
The increasing water level in the mighty river Padma due to the rainy season is drawing curious visitors in Pabna while residents of the low-lying areas are increasingly worried about an early flood.
May 25, 2021
Cyclone threatens Chalanbeel farmers
Farmer Kazem Pramanik of Pabna’s Chatmohar, who cultivated two bighas of Boro paddy last year, could not harvest most of the crops as they were damaged by cyclone Amphan and early floods.