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
First freight train from India ends trial run
A trial run of the first freight train on the Bangladesh-India route ended at the west end of Bangabandhu Multipurpose Bridge in Sirajganj yesterday around 1:30am.
5 April 2018
Boys of indomitable will
Sixteen visually impaired students are appearing in the ongoing HSC examination in the district, thanks to the initiative of Manob Kollan Trust, a humanitarian organisation.
4 April 2018
“Amar Bondhu Rashed” inspires schoolchildren in Pabna
“Amar Bondhu Rashed”, the Morshedul Islam-directed adolescent film set during the Liberation War, was screened at various educational institutes in Pabna over the last month, as part of Independence Day observances in the district.
31 March 2018
Sharing the feelings of speech impaired poeple
Twenty-one people who can speak kept silent yesterday along with 21 speech disabled people to feel the struggle of those who
21 February 2018
National Anthem competition held in Pabna
An exceptional competition of singing the National Anthem among the students was held at the Ishwardi upazila nirbahi office in Pabna
14 February 2018
Late onion planting worries farmers
Farmers in the district are worried over fall in onion production due to late planting of seeds this year, but at the
29 January 2018
Suchitra Sen recalled in her hometown
Suchitra Sen, screen legend of Bangla film was recalled at her ancestral hometown in Pabna on Wednesday, marking her fourth death
17 January 2018
30 cargo vessels stranded
Movement of cargo vessels at Baghabari port has been seriously hampered for 10 days due to poor navigability in the Jamuna river.
15 January 2018
Two-day Lalon festival ends in Pabna
A two-day Lalon festival concluded in Pabna on Tuesday, highlighting Lalon's philosophy. The Lalon Swaran Parishad, Pabna organised
10 January 2018
Remembered, rarely
When the nation is observing Martyred Intellectuals Day today with due respect and solemnity, there is hardly any programme commemorating martyred intellectual Dr Fazle Rabbi at his home district of Pabna.
13 December 2017
Memories of a massacre
It was the morning of August 20, 1971, when 25 to 30 Pakistan army men accompanied by their local collaborators entered the predominantly Hindu Laxmipur village of Pabna's Atghoria.
7 December 2017
Another step closer to N-power plant
Bangladesh will take a big step towards becoming a nuclear power-generating country today.
29 November 2017
Jute market blocks Pabna highway twice a week
A highway is supposed to be a major road for convenient transport between towns. But the Pabna to Rajshahi highway transforms twice a week into a congested mess at Tebunia Bazar, when an overflowing traditional jute market occupies part of the roadway. For
26 October 2017
Fish threatened at Chalan Beel
Backed by influential people, fish traders have illegally set up nets and bamboo enclosures to catch fish in one of the
14 October 2017
Farmers eye profit
Like in previous years, bean farmers in Ishwardi and Atghoria upazilas of the district cultivated early variety of the winter crop, expecting to get bumper production and good profit.
5 October 2017
Incomplete for 10 yrs
Residents of around 50 villages in Santhia and Faridpur upazilas of the district are suffering immensely as the construction of a bridge over the Boral river at Naranpur-Sonahara point has not been completed in the last 10 years.
28 September 2017
Rehabilitation main challenge
Nurjahan Begum along with her husband Mozammel Hossain, a poor farmer of Boro Moharajpur village in Shahzadpur upazila of
7 September 2017
Death of a dream
Rupa Khatun was on the right track to realise her late father's dream.
30 August 2017
Dying Ichamati gets flow as swelling Padma sends water
The nearly dead Ichamati river passing through the district town sees flow due to the pressure of the water from the mighty Padma
22 August 2017
Lifeline for the poor
For the last few days Kolpona Begum from Nurpur in Pabna Sadar upazila has been suffering from high fever. She works as a cook in a student mess: the pay is meagre.
11 August 2017