Ahmed Humayun Kabir Topu

Navigability crisis in the Jamuna river badly hampers movement of vessels, much to the inconvenience of cargo boats heading for Baghabari river port in Sirajganj from early November.

“Coffee houser shei addata aaj aar nei”, “Maago, bhabna keno, amra tomar shantipriyo shanto chhele” and many other songs by lyricist Gauri Prasanna Mazumder ring through the hearts of Bangalees across the world.

Some 21 years after the Pabna Mental Hospital (PMH) -- the country's first specialised hospital for patients with mental disorders -- was upgraded to a 500-bed facility in 1997, it is still operating with the manpower of a 200-bed hospital.

“Oh Dada, bring your boat, I have to go home.” It's the call of villagers that will forever live in the sentiments of fifty-year-old Bimal Kumar, though he won't hear it anymore.

Mentoo, who was formerly known as Mintoo, reached into his pocket and drew out a sepia-toned photograph. “I have a childhood photograph and can recall the name of Nagarbari ghat in Pabna's Bera upazila. Nothing else,” he said in crisp English.

Installation of “core catcher”, the device for catching molten core (active part of the reactor that contains nuclear fuel) material began at unit no. 1 of Roopur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) on Saturday.

In Ishwardi upazila these days, the farm workers out in the field might look a little young. In a programme run with the cooperation of local farmers, 84 educational institutions are sending students into the sunshine, even at the weekend, to gain practical farming knowledge.

Last month, Ranjita Roy, an eighth grader of Chatmohar Pilot Girls' High School, faced an unavoidable challenge during her half-yearly examinations. Her period began while in the exam hall and she did not have the option to go home and get a sanitary pad.

Eight people were killed and three others critically injured after they were electrocuted by a live wire of the Power Development Board (PDB) at Kadai village in Sirajganj Sadar upazila yesterday noon.

The construction of the second reactor unit of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant starts today.

Failing to pay employees' salaries and wages because of cash crunch, the authorities of Pabna Sugar Mills gave them sugar against their last three-month dues.

A couple of years ago, Badsha Miah, a handloom retailer of Ataikula Haat, used to sell cloth worth Tk 8000 to Tk 10000 everyday from the first Ramadan until Eid, but he is disappointed this year due to poor sale of Tk 4000 to Tk 5000 a day ahead of the festival.

Brojo Gopal Saha, a septuagenarian in Pabna who dedicated his life and his earnings to sports and social welfare, lies lonely and helpless on a bed at the Pabna General Hospital.

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.

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.

“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.

Twenty-one people who can speak kept silent yesterday along with 21 speech disabled people to feel the struggle of those who

An exceptional competition of singing the National Anthem among the students was held at the Ishwardi upazila nirbahi office in Pabna

Farmers in the district are worried over fall in onion production due to late planting of seeds this year, but at the

Suchitra Sen, screen legend of Bangla film was recalled at her ancestral hometown in Pabna on Wednesday, marking her fourth death