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Ahmed Humayun Kabir Topu

Sirajganj BSCIC Industrial Park

Business Plus / Land without utilities: The Sirajganj industrial gridlock

3 October 2026
BSCIC took over the park in 2024, after construction ended, and began preparing to hand land to investors even though sand-filling was still under way
3 October 2026
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Rooppur Unit 1 clears key safety test after technical fault stalled commissioning

1 October 2026
Three major tests remain before the unit can reach the criticality stage, officials say
1 October 2026
The Padma rose quickly, approaching the danger level and flooding banana, mashkalai and vegetable fields in the riverbank shoal areas. Photo: Star

Prolonged monsoon worries farmers in Pabna

21 September 2026
187 hectares of crops submerged in two upazilas; persistent rain delays early onion cultivation
21 September 2026
Puthi Path tradition in Bangladesh

Traditional Puthi Path revives folk heritage in remote Chalan Beel village

28 August 2026
The flickering glow of traditional oil lamps illuminated a quiet village courtyard in Chalan Beel on Thursday night, as locals gathered to revive a nearly forgotten tradition of rural Bengal — Puthi Path.
28 August 2026
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Pabna clinic OT shut after 12 patients contract TB

25 August 2026
The health authority in Faridpur upazila of Pabna yesterday temporarily closed the operating theatre of Al-Modina Lab and Hospital, a local private clinic, after 12 post-surgery patients contracted tuberculosis (TB) over the past few weeks.
25 August 2026
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Pabna clinic OT closed after 12 post-surgery patients test positive for TB

24 August 2026
Health authorities form probe committee to investigate infections at Al-Modina Lab and Hospital in Faridpur upazila
24 August 2026
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‘Poddo Beel’ loses its monsoon bloom

22 August 2026
When monsoon waters fill Chalan Beel, pink lotuses, white water lilies and water chestnuts usually blanket the vast wetlands in the region.
22 August 2026
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Poor monsoon flow dims bloom: Fewer flowers disappoint visitors at Chalanbeel

21 August 2026
Altered river courses and human intervention disrupt wetland’s natural flowering, unchecked tourism adds to damage
21 August 2026

4 missing in Pabna

Four people, including three of a family, have been missing for the last ten days since May 10 in Pabna as plainclothes men
19 May 2016
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Fish farming in cages fetch big success for Pabna man

When Hafizur Rahman began putting boxes made of iron rods and nets in the Boral river near his village named Ratanpur in Pabna five years back, villagers took him as a joke. What was he doing? Rahman assured them that it was nothing crazy.
18 May 2016
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Justice brings solace to martyrs' families

The execution of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami has brought some solace to the family members of the victims, freedom fighters
11 May 2016
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Three-day festival begins today in Shahzadpur Kaccharibari

The Shahzadpur Kaccharibari wears a festive look today, Baishakh 25, the birth anniversary of Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore. A three-day programme including a discussion and cultural events are the high points of the 155th birth festival of Tagore at the Kaccharibari, official sources said.
7 May 2016
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Pabna people hail upholding of Nizami's death penalty

The Supreme Court's final verdict that upheld the death penalty for Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami for crimes against
5 May 2016
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Illegal houses sprout on govt land in Pabna

At least 170 new houses have popped up on both sides of the Bonpara-Dashuria highway in Muladuli of Ishwardi upazila on Roads and Highways Department land.
30 April 2016
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Homebound on retirement, man meets tragic end

He got off the train just to get a paan. All his career he must have done it hundreds of times, but this would be his last.
28 April 2016
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Suchitra Sen recalled in her hometown

Suchitra Sen, screen legend of Bangla filmdom was recalled at her ancestral hometown in Pabna on April 6 marking her 85th birth
7 April 2016
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A little care making big difference

She has almost all the skills of a dancer. When she performs in a group on stage, she can hardly be distinguished from others. She
1 April 2016
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Kids still attend classes in bldg abandoned 3 yrs ago

“When we sit in the classroom we feel scared the ceiling may fall on our heads, but we still attend classes every day despite the threat," said Md Riad Hossain, a Class V student of Bera BB Government Primary School in Bera municipality.
23 March 2016
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Worried families urge prompt steps for rescue

Family members of two Brac officials, who were abducted in war-torn Afghanistan on Thursday, have demanded that the government
19 March 2016
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30 fertiliser-laden vessels stranded in Jamuna

Around 50 cargo vessels loaded with chemical fertilisers have remained stranded for days at different places of the Jamuna River leading
17 March 2016
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Save Boral, save Chalanbeel

An appeal with the signature of one lakh people living in Chalanbeel area was submitted to the prime minister
14 March 2016
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A nearly forgotten chapter of Language Movement

It was on February 29 in 1948 when the people of Pabna observed hartal for upholding the dignity of our mother language, four years
28 February 2016
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Pabna school still named after ex-Pak premier

The name of a Pabna school, named after the then Pakistani premier and built in 1952 right before the historic Language Movement,
19 February 2016
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Schoolgirl caned as family too poor to buy uniform

Ranjina Khatun Rojoni, a Class VI student of Ramnagar Government Primary School in Chatmohar upazila of Pabna district, was
8 February 2016
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Victim families call for quick execution

For more than 44 years, Abdur Rouf Montu has been waiting for justice.
6 January 2016
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Locals expect upholding of Nizami's death sentence

The people of Pabna, the home district of Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami, are expecting that the Supreme Court will
5 January 2016

Dhaner shish again in polls race after 19 yrs

BNP's election symbol dhaner shish (sheaf of paddy) has appeared in the polls race in Pabna Sadar and Santhia upazilas under the district
29 December 2015

AL, BNP face rebel candidates

Both Awami League and BNP face rebel candidates in five of the seven municipalities the district for the election to
24 December 2015

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