Ahmed Humayun Kabir Topu

The ongoing countrywide lockdown has made things worse for the milk producers in Pabna and Sirajganj, who have already been suffering from poor sales due to a slump in local consumption.

Farmers in Pabna have been left disappointed by the current price of onions as they spent excessively to cultivate the bulbs with hopes of making bumper profits this year.

At the onset of Covid-19 pandemic in early March last year, many professionals got a chance to discharge their duties from home but the frontline fighters especially the medical professionals did not step backward.

Soon after the crackdown by the Pakistan army on the unarmed people of Bangladesh on the black night of March 25 in 1971, the occupation forces started raiding at different places across the country.

The government’s initiative to establish one of the biggest river ports in northern region at Nagarbari in Pabna’s Bera upazila has delayed for one year while the project cost has already exceeded Tk 40 crore.

It was January 27, 1922. Several thousand people including peasants, traders and buyers from different northern districts came to 'Salanga Haat', one of the biggest rural markets in the northern region at that time, for shopping for the whole week.

A couple of decades ago, incomes of the people of Ishwardi upazila of Pabna and adjoining areas were mostly dependent onNorth Bengal Paper Mill and Alhaj Textile Mills.

It was January 27, 1922. Several thousand people including peasants, traders and buyers from different northern districts came to ‘Salanga Haat’, then one of the biggest rural markets in the northern region for shopping for the whole week,

Anyone visiting the countryside will notice a certain change in the scenery: the croplands look like yellow and green canvases.

The measurement of water level at different points of Padma River is going to kick off tomorrow (Saturday), jointly by Bangladesh and India under the Ganga Water-sharing Treaty-1996, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.

The second wave of Covid 19 hits the country but there is no progress in dealing with coronavirus patients at the hospital in the district.

Two of the nine state-run sugar mills that are still operational began crushing sugarcane on December 11.

Hamidul Haq, a sugarcane grower in Basantapur village of Rangpur’s Badarganj upazila, is fearing huge losses this year as the government has shut down six state-run sugar mills out of 15 just before the harvesting season.

Entrepreneur sets up apple orchard on a Sirajganj shoal after bringing saplings from India’s Himachal Pradesh.

After earning handsome profits last year, onion farmer Kawsar Mollah from Mothpara village in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila targeted cultivating onions on 10 bighas of land this year.

Introducing themselves as students, four youths rented an under-construction building in Sirajganj’s Shahjadpur nearly three weeks ago.

Two years into construction of a nursing institute in the district town, it is yet to become operational, thanks to the negligence of the authorities concerned.

A 72-year-old retired teacher from Pabna proved that it is never too late to learn and achieve as he passed his Masters examinations with the best score in his batch.

As many as 29 families of a small ethnic community, known as Mundas in Ullapara upazila of Sirajganj, have been living in miserable conditions as the male members of the community have been in hiding for the past seven months to evade arrest in a murder case.

Azim Uddin from Handial village has been catching fish at Chalanbeel in the village, under Chatmohar upazila of Pabna, over the last one decade.