Ahmed Humayun Kabir Topu

The government's rice and paddy procurement drive during the Aman season is facing a setback in Pabna due to a lack of response from millers and farmers.

More than 150 illegal brick kilns are operating across nine upazilas of Pabna district, causing severe environmental damage.

Md Alam sits on the edge of a flood-protection embankment, hammering wooden planks into place for a makeshift shelter. The 50-year-old day labourer, who has been homeless twice in his life, never thought he would end up here -- again. .“I was barely surviving as a child without a home. Th

From December to February, mustard fields across Bangladesh become buzzing ecosystems as bees, both wild and domesticated, diligently go from flower to flower in search of their most precious commodity: nectar.

For the first time, she received medical treatment from consultant of colorectal surgeon of Dhaka in a health camp at Masimpur village Sirajganj Sadar upazila this morning

Farmers in different parts of the country are being compelled to buy fertiliser, a key ingredient for crop production, by paying more than government-fixed prices.

Amilu Nasrin, a farmer from Borichhara village in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila, began producing vermicompost at her home about 10 years ago, despite facing criticism from relatives and locals.

Vegetable farmers in Pabna are reeling from heavy losses this winter as a glut in supply drives down market prices.

Once a key supply hub for agricultural inputs and fuel to the greater northern region, Baghabari river port in Shahzadpur upazila of Sirajganj is now seeing more and more cargo vessels avoiding it due to years of neglect in navigability management and inadequate port facilities.

Around 50,000 residents from 10 villages along the Gumani River in Pabna are suffering due to the absence of a connecting bridge.

Farmers formed a human chain and demonstrated on the Pabna-Sujanagar road, protesting the falling prices of early-variety onions, as they fear they may not recover the production costs of the edible bulb this season.

The growers dumped onion on Pabna-Sujanagar road demanding a fair price

A farmer of Sirajganj’s Kamarkhand area, Mahabub Hossain Polash, has initiated experimental cultivation of cumin for the first time in the district

Even the freedom fighters who were just returning home after nine months of the war could not enter the district as the Pakistani occupying army in Pabna had put up barricades at all the entry points

Farmers are getting higher prices for Aman season paddy this year than the previous year, amidst apprehensions of a fall in yields for heavy rainfall and recurrent floods in the eastern regions.

Nagarbari port, one of the largest riverports in Bangladesh, is mainly used to facilitate the transport of imported fertiliser and coal from Chattogram to 16 northern districts of the country.

Chalan Beel is the biggest source of freshwater fish varieties in the country's northern region

Instead of conventional windows, ample balconies outside the classrooms allow natural light and fresh air to flow freely.

The 18-kilometre Chatmohar-Mannannagar road, which serves as an important shortcut for vehicles commuting between Dhaka and Pabna through Chalan Beel area, is in a battered condition and needs urgent renovation.

Onion production costs have practically doubled this year thanks to the higher price of Kondo onion bulbs, which are planted in October and harvested in mid-November, according to farmers in major producing districts of Bangladesh.