Ahmed Humayun Kabir Topu

Vegetable farmers in Pabna are reeling from heavy losses this winter as a glut in supply drives down market prices.

Once a key supply hub for agricultural inputs and fuel to the greater northern region, Baghabari river port in Shahzadpur upazila of Sirajganj is now seeing more and more cargo vessels avoiding it due to years of neglect in navigability management and inadequate port facilities.

Around 50,000 residents from 10 villages along the Gumani River in Pabna are suffering due to the absence of a connecting bridge.

Farmers formed a human chain and demonstrated on the Pabna-Sujanagar road, protesting the falling prices of early-variety onions, as they fear they may not recover the production costs of the edible bulb this season.

The growers dumped onion on Pabna-Sujanagar road demanding a fair price

A farmer of Sirajganj’s Kamarkhand area, Mahabub Hossain Polash, has initiated experimental cultivation of cumin for the first time in the district

Even the freedom fighters who were just returning home after nine months of the war could not enter the district as the Pakistani occupying army in Pabna had put up barricades at all the entry points

Farmers are getting higher prices for Aman season paddy this year than the previous year, amidst apprehensions of a fall in yields for heavy rainfall and recurrent floods in the eastern regions.

Nagarbari port, one of the largest riverports in Bangladesh, is mainly used to facilitate the transport of imported fertiliser and coal from Chattogram to 16 northern districts of the country.

Chalan Beel is the biggest source of freshwater fish varieties in the country's northern region

Instead of conventional windows, ample balconies outside the classrooms allow natural light and fresh air to flow freely.

The 18-kilometre Chatmohar-Mannannagar road, which serves as an important shortcut for vehicles commuting between Dhaka and Pabna through Chalan Beel area, is in a battered condition and needs urgent renovation.

Onion production costs have practically doubled this year thanks to the higher price of Kondo onion bulbs, which are planted in October and harvested in mid-November, according to farmers in major producing districts of Bangladesh.

A drastic rise in cost of cultivation has dealt a blow to onion farmers in Pabna..Cultivation cost rose by almost double this year due to high price of onion bulb, increased labour cost and higher cost of leasing agricultural land, said farmers

Onion prices at retail markets in Dhaka rose by Tk 10 to Tk 15 per kg over the past week, deepening the woes of low and fixed-income people

Passengers have been suffering as two rail stations in Sirajganj under Pakshey Division of Bangladesh Railway’s West Zone have remained out of service since August.

Faruk Hossain and Jakiya Sultana, a couple in their forties, have just passed the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exams. What makes this achievement even more remarkable? They did so alongside their son, Hujjatul Islam Fahim.

Faruk Hossain and Jakiya Sultana, a couple in their forties, have just passed the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exams. What makes this achievement even more remarkable? They did so alongside their son, Hujjatul Islam Fahim

Belgasi, a remote village along the bank of the Boral river in Chatmohar upazila, is famous for artisans and its century-old idols making professionals for generations

Raihan, a third-grader at Alia Madrasa Government Primary School in Pabna municipality, often ventures outside the school compound during recess, defying his teachers’ instructions.