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
Pabna marketplace for empowering rural women: Good initiative failing
A marketplace established in Pabna’s Satbaria Bazar to promote rural women entrepreneurs is about to be closed allegedly for lack of fund and patronisation.
9 February 2020
A good initiative failing
The Women’s Corner at Satbaria Bazar in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila, aiming at encouraging rural women traders, is about to be closed amid lack of sufficient backing.
6 February 2020
Pabna student cabinet polls held peacefully
Students of 548 educational institutions, including 313 high schools and 235 madrasas, recently joined the Student Cabinet elections to elect their leaders.
30 January 2020
Bedridden female FF in need of treatment
Freedom fighter Vanu Nesa, now bedridden at her Tetulia village home in Pabna’s Santhia upazila due to old age complications, is in dire need of quality medical treatment.
18 January 2020
7th death anniversary of Suchitra Sen today
Today marks the 7th death anniversary of legendary actor Suchitra Sen. The actor breathed her last on January 17 in 2013 in Kolkata. The star orginally hailed from Pabna.
16 January 2020
‘Pala Gaan’ programme in Shirajganj
Marking the 15th founding anniversary of Sirajganj Baul Shilpigoshthi, a leading cultural organisation based in the northern districts of Bangladesh, a two-day Pala Gaan session was recently organised by its artistes at the Shahid Monsur Ali Auditorium.
15 January 2020
Pabna sugar mill saw no profit since inception
State-Owned Pabna Sugar Mill, which has yet to see profits since its establishment in the mid-90s, started this season’s production last month with a debt of Tk 575 crore.
11 January 2020
Spiralling price lifts up hope
Pabna farmers are cultivating more land for the second season of onion eyeing the high price of the spice in the market, forgetting the loss they had suffered from their flood-hit crops in the September-October season.
1 January 2020
Fifth grader left to die for Tk 2,500
“Please give me a pillow, I want to sleep with my parents,” 12-year-old Arafat moaned in pain when police rescued him from a sugarcane field in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila early Monday. He had been lying there with a severe head injury for about 12 hours.
17 December 2019
MP Bazar on govt land!
Encroachers, backed by former lawmaker of Pabna-2 constituency, grabbed a portion of Jamuna river land along with riverbank properties owned by various government departments in Pabna’s Bera upazila to set up a market.
11 December 2019
Land dispute threatens solar plant
Locals on a char of the Padma in Pabna’s Sagarkand claim that they own the land the government allocated for a solar power plant and are demanding compensation for their loss of land and livelihood.
7 December 2019
Wrong signal or flawed repair work?
A week after the rail accident in Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila on November 14, the district administration and railway (west zone) in their probe reports have identified separate reasons behind the incident.
22 November 2019
Ichhamati now a trickle
The Ichhamati, the once vibrant river that features prominently in several Bangla literary works, has turned into a narrow channel filled with garbage, thanks to rampant encroachment and indiscriminate dumping of waste.
16 November 2019
Sirajganj Train Derailment: Dhaka-Ishwardi rail connection restored 30 hrs after accident
Rail connection between Dhaka and Ishwardi was resumed yesterday, 30 hours after it was disrupted due to a rail accident in Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila.
15 November 2019
Train derails in Sirajganj, catches fire
Three days after the tragic rail accident in Brahmanbaria, a Rangpur-bound passenger train derailed in Ullapara of Sirajganj yesterday noon.
14 November 2019
Bera Municipality in Pabna: Mayor running illegal ‘river port’
A municipality mayor has established what appears to be a small port on the Hurasagor river at Brishalikha in Pabna’s Bera upazila.
4 November 2019
Current nets harm fish stock in open waterbody
Rampant use of closely knitted mesh nets, popularly known as current nets, poses threat to fish stock in Gaznar Beel in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila.
21 October 2019
‘Better mental health to prevent suicide’
While World Mental Health Day is being observed with the main theme “suicide prevention”, the menace of taking own life remains a major concern in the country as well as around the world.
9 October 2019
‘Poncho-Kobir Gaan’ staged in Pabna
Gonoshilpi, the leading cultural organisation of Pabna, staged a musical show paying tribute to five leading composers of Bangla (known as the Poncho-Kobi) at the Bonomali institute in Pabna recently.
6 October 2019
OC arranged it ‘to cover up the crime’
A police officer in Pabna allegedly arranged a marriage between a gang-rape victim and one of the alleged rapists in an attempt to cover up the crime, the woman’s family members and rights activists in the district said.
11 September 2019