Change Maker: A carpenter’s literary paradise
Right in the heart of Jhalakathi lies a library stocked with over 8,000 books of various genres -- history, culture, poetry, and more.
Unplanned sluice gates a curse for coastal districts
Once a fisherman, Sagir Hossain Somed, 55, of Dakshin Gilabad village of Pirojpur’s Mathbaria upazila, switched to farming after fish population depleted alarmingly within a few years of the construction of a sluice gate in neighbouring Dadhibhanga village.
Cricket bat-makers hope to cash in on World Cup fever
Cricket bat-makers in Pirojpur’s Nesarabad upazila have gotten to work ahead of schedule with next month’s Cricket World Cup just around the corner, and they are hopeful of good sales during the showpiece event in neighbouring India.
Growers busy in producing vegetable saplings on floating seedbed
Farmers in Pirojpur and Barisal are passing busy time in growing vegetable saplings on floating seedbeds.
‘They’ll never return home’
Irene, a 20-year-old mother, was happy, as she was returning home after the first nanubari (grandmother’s home) visit of her one-month-old daughter, Ripa.
17 killed as bus plunges into pond
The traffic on the road was quite light and the bus was moving at a speed of 40 to 50mph. It was meant to be a regular morning ride from Bhandaria to Barishal.
Droughts hamper boat business
The lack of rain amid recurring heatwaves is hampering the wooden boat business in parts of Bangladesh as many inland waterbodies, such as canals and marshlands, have all but dried up.
Banana cultivation a boon for farmers in south
Thousands of people on both sides of the Baleshwar river, which flows between Pirojpur and Bagerhat, have changed their fates by cultivating banana on a commercial basis.
February 22, 2024
Change Maker: A carpenter’s literary paradise
Right in the heart of Jhalakathi lies a library stocked with over 8,000 books of various genres -- history, culture, poetry, and more.
October 14, 2023
Unplanned sluice gates a curse for coastal districts
Once a fisherman, Sagir Hossain Somed, 55, of Dakshin Gilabad village of Pirojpur’s Mathbaria upazila, switched to farming after fish population depleted alarmingly within a few years of the construction of a sluice gate in neighbouring Dadhibhanga village.
September 17, 2023
Cricket bat-makers hope to cash in on World Cup fever
Cricket bat-makers in Pirojpur’s Nesarabad upazila have gotten to work ahead of schedule with next month’s Cricket World Cup just around the corner, and they are hopeful of good sales during the showpiece event in neighbouring India.
August 13, 2023
Growers busy in producing vegetable saplings on floating seedbed
Farmers in Pirojpur and Barisal are passing busy time in growing vegetable saplings on floating seedbeds.
July 23, 2023
17 killed as bus plunges into pond
The traffic on the road was quite light and the bus was moving at a speed of 40 to 50mph. It was meant to be a regular morning ride from Bhandaria to Barishal.
July 23, 2023
‘They’ll never return home’
Irene, a 20-year-old mother, was happy, as she was returning home after the first nanubari (grandmother’s home) visit of her one-month-old daughter, Ripa.
July 17, 2023
Droughts hamper boat business
The lack of rain amid recurring heatwaves is hampering the wooden boat business in parts of Bangladesh as many inland waterbodies, such as canals and marshlands, have all but dried up.
May 5, 2023
Banana cultivation a boon for farmers in south
Thousands of people on both sides of the Baleshwar river, which flows between Pirojpur and Bagerhat, have changed their fates by cultivating banana on a commercial basis.
December 24, 2022
The launch ride from hell
On one fine winter evening, exactly a year ago, a launch named MV Abhijan-10 left Dhaka for Barguna around 6:00pm, with over 600 on board, although there was room for only 420.
December 22, 2022
Paddy varieties going extinct
Once farmers of Pirojpur used to cultivate more than 50 varieties of paddy during Aman season. But currently, only five to six varieties exist as the rest appear to have vanished, according to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE).
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