Traditional Puthi Path revives folk heritage in remote Chalan Beel village
28 August 2026
The flickering glow of traditional oil lamps illuminated a quiet village courtyard in Chalan Beel on Thursday night, as locals gathered to revive a nearly forgotten tradition of rural Bengal — Puthi Path.
28 August 2026
Pabna clinic OT shut after 12 patients contract TB
25 August 2026
The health authority in Faridpur upazila of Pabna yesterday temporarily closed the operating theatre of Al-Modina Lab and Hospital, a local private clinic, after 12 post-surgery patients contracted tuberculosis (TB) over the past few weeks.
25 August 2026
Pabna clinic OT closed after 12 post-surgery patients test positive for TB
24 August 2026
Health authorities form probe committee to investigate infections at Al-Modina Lab and Hospital in Faridpur upazila
24 August 2026
‘Poddo Beel’ loses its monsoon bloom
22 August 2026
When monsoon waters fill Chalan Beel, pink lotuses, white water lilies and water chestnuts usually blanket the vast wetlands in the region.
22 August 2026
Poor monsoon flow dims bloom: Fewer flowers disappoint visitors at Chalanbeel
21 August 2026
Altered river courses and human intervention disrupt wetland’s natural flowering, unchecked tourism adds to damage
21 August 2026
A deeper search for gas in Pabna
21 August 2026
State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (BAPEX) has launched a fresh exploration drive at Mobarakpur in Pabna, hoping to tap commercially viable gas reserves after an earlier attempt was halted over technological limitations.
21 August 2026
BAPEX returning to Pabna’s Mobarakpur with deeper drilling in renewed hunt for gas
20 August 2026
After technological limitations halted the earlier effort, a Chinese contractor will drill beyond 6km in search of commercially viable reserves
20 August 2026
He rushed in to save others, but toxic gas claimed his life
15 August 2026
Father mourns son, Abdul Alim Sujon, lost in Sitakunda shipbreaking tragedy
15 August 2026
Turning a lofty idea into reality
Entrepreneur sets up apple orchard on a Sirajganj shoal after bringing saplings from India’s Himachal Pradesh.
4 December 2020
Onion Production: Seed crisis deals setback
After earning handsome profits last year, onion farmer Kawsar Mollah from Mothpara village in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila targeted cultivating onions on 10 bighas of land this year.
3 December 2020
4 ‘militants’ held in Sirajganj raid
Introducing themselves as students, four youths rented an under-construction building in Sirajganj’s Shahjadpur nearly three weeks ago.
20 November 2020
Two years into building, nursing institute not opened
Two years into construction of a nursing institute in the district town, it is yet to become operational, thanks to the negligence of the authorities concerned.
18 November 2020
Masters degree at 72
A 72-year-old retired teacher from Pabna proved that it is never too late to learn and achieve as he passed his Masters examinations with the best score in his batch.
12 November 2020
Male members of 29 families in hiding for 7 months
As many as 29 families of a small ethnic community, known as Mundas in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj, have been living in miserable conditions as the male members of the community have been in hiding for the past seven months to evade arrest in a murder case.
3 November 2020
Local fish aplenty in Chalanbeel
Azim Uddin from Handial village has been catching fish at Chalanbeel in the village, under Chatmohar upazila of Pabna, over the last one decade.
26 October 2020
Tears of Chalan Beel farmers
Johurul Islam was in happy mood when he started harvesting paddy in April, but the early flooding of the year made the happy mood turn to darkness.
20 October 2020
Pabna Mental Hospital: Service seekers at the mercy of brokers
Family members of patients with mental illnesses seeking treatment at Pabna Mental Hospital are being harassed by brokers outside who demand money to get them an appointment with a doctor inside or lure them to privately run so-called mental health clinics.
9 October 2020
New onion variety ushers in hope
When the country was coping with the soaring price of onion because of Indian export ban earlier this month, vegetables farmer Shahinur Rahman was seeing bumper production of a new variety of local onion he planted two months ago.
25 September 2020
Floodwaters receded, but marks of wrath all over
Lal Banu Begum and her family decided to come home after the floodwaters started to recede, but only to find their house, made of corrugated iron sheets, in utter despair.
12 September 2020
Covid-19 in Pabna: Poor testing, facilities result fewer cases
Five months after Covid-19 cases first emerged in Pabna, the district health authorities say it is much better placed than other districts in terms of number of cases.
22 August 2020
As floods wreak havoc, Chalanbeel gets draped in beauty
The flood has brought along destruction in its wake. But for Chalanbeel, the flood has brought along a semblance of destructive beauty.
19 August 2020
‘Cattle train’ plan draws a blank
A government move to transport cattle to Dhaka and other big cities by train ahead of Eid-ul-Azha has so far failed to draw any response from farmers and traders.
22 July 2020
Covid-19 Tests: People being turned away in Pabna
While Covid-19 cases continue to pile up in the districts as well as in cities, detection of Covid-19 has actually deteriorated in Pabna due to low testing since the first week of July.
19 July 2020
Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant: Rising infections among workers
More and more workers of different sub-contracting firms at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Ishwardi upazila are getting infected with the novel coronavirus.
9 July 2020
Cattle farmers deflated as coronavirus ravages up Eid market
The coronavirus outbreak has hit hard the cattle farmers in Pabna and Sirajganj as they are now getting hardly any customer for the animals they prepared for the last year targeting the Eid-ul-Azha this year.
7 July 2020
Jobless in Covid-19 pandemic, homeless in flood
“The coronavirus earlier closed our earning, and now flood has made us homeless,” said Mukti Khatun of Shuvogachha village in Sirajganj’s Kazipur upazila.
5 July 2020
Covid-19 in Pabna: Cases rising amid poor care
A government employee suffering from covid-19 was recently admitted to Pabna Medical College Hospital, which has a 100-bed Covid unit, but he was hurriedly shifted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital because of acute respiratory problem.
5 July 2020
Survival is priority: Sirajganj flood victims have no means to follow Covid-19 health rules
Around 25,000 families from five upazilas in Sirajganj are barely surviving on embankments or roads as their houses have been flooded.
3 July 2020