Ahmed Humayun Kabir Topu

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.

After technological limitations halted the earlier effort, a Chinese contractor will drill beyond 6km in search of commercially viable reserves

Father mourns son, Abdul Alim Sujon, lost in Sitakunda shipbreaking tragedy

Amid the rolling blackouts, some businesses are spending more to produce the same amount of goods, while others are taking much longer to meet delivery deadlines

New breastfeeding corners in Pabna are easing an everyday struggle for mothers visiting public offices and health facilities

Moyna Begum had no electricity at home when her son Mohan Pramanik was calling from Riyadh as a fire tore through the sofa factory where he worked.

Under the new rate structure that took effect on August 1, a one-litre packet of processed milk now costs Tk 110, up 10 percent from Tk 100

Farmer Abdul Hannan has given up IRRI-Boro cultivation due to the irrigation water crisis, even though he lives just a stone’s throw from the country’s largest surface-water irrigation network, the Ganges-Kobadak (GK) Project.

Residents of Santhia municipality in Pabna have long faced a shortage of safe drinking water, while a purification plant built at a cost of Tk 7.61 crore has remained unused for the past five years.

Headmasters attributed poor performance to acute teacher shortages and limited parental involvement

Spoilage, rainfall and dwindling stocks push wholesale prices sharply higher

As a student, Amirul Islam had no ambition of becoming a dairy farmer.

A family of Pabna wish grew into a circular dairy enterprise powering homes, producing fertiliser and inspiring farmers

Her son and sister remain critically injured at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital

Selina Khatun has spent the past week under the open sky after the Jamuna swallowed her only homestead.

Hospital has suspended surgeries, lacks essential equipment and medicines, and forces poor families to seek costly alternatives

Rapid spoilage from heat and rain, and a chronic shortage of storage facilities have combined to push farmers in major producing regions of Pabna and Faridpur deep into losses this season, following record yields.

Heatwave damage and abundant supply after Eid reduce quality and growers' earnings

The Padma river has been retreating for decades, gradually exposing vast stretches of char land that were later brought under cultivation by local farmers for crops such as bananas and vegetables.

As two major solar parks reshape Pabna’s riverine landscape, farmers say rising land values come at cost of farmland