Sushanta Ghosh

A weeklong International theatre festival opened in Barisal on the occasion of 25th anniversary of Shabdabali Studio Theatre yesterday.

The seventh annual reception ceremony to honour 'Pal and Kumars' (sculptors and artisans of idols) was held in Barisal on Tuesday with a call to create harmony between communities.

The girls cook for themselves, do the dishes, clean their rooms and wash their clothes.

Akhi is nine years old and Dalia is ten. Too poor to raise them, their mothers sent them in the care of a government orphanage.

Some 230 cops in Barisal had created a joint fund of around Tk 77 lakh to bribe their superiors for promotion. They had found out one of their bosses to mediate the matter and handed him over an amount from their collected money to accelerate the process of their promotion. All was well until some of the cops complained to higher authorities, finding the process taking time longer than they expected.

Some local influential people have put bamboo enclosures in the Arial Kha River for fish farming in Kismat Thakur Mallick area of

Inpatients of Barisal General Hospital have been undergoing untold sufferings due to suspension of water supply for the last 12 days

The authorities have imposed a seven-month-long restriction on plying of risky passenger carrying watercrafts, including small

Valuable trees including mahogany, rain tree, chambal and others are being felled beside the Barisal-Dhaka highway in the name of 'dressing' branches for road safety but forest and environment departments were not informed and no formal tender was called for the purpose.

Cultivation area and production of wheat in four districts of Barisal division saw about three-fold increase in last four years, thanks to the initiative of Integrated Agricultural Productivity Project (IAPP) of agriculture ministry.