Habibur Rahman

Getting up from bed early in the morning, Sabitri Halder goes to her backyard and takes a seat on the floor to weave floor mats from hogla leaves, a species of aquatic grass.

Annually churning out some Tk 65 crore worth of products, businesses at the industrial estate of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Pirojpur are incurring extra expenses for the lack of direct road connectivity.

The cricket bat making hub that has boomed in the last three decades in Pirojpur’s Nesarabad upazila might soon go out of business as producers have been facing severe losses since the pandemic hit the country two years ago.

Headscarves are garments mostly worn by Muslim women across the world as per religious obligations. But many educational institutions do not allow headscarves in the campus.

The timber trade that has been running on the banks of the Sandhya river in Nesarabad upazila of Pirojpur for decades has emerged as the largest hub for woods in Bangladesh.

The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) in Pirojpur has hanged signboards on both two sides of each iron bridge on Charkhali-Mathbaria road in the district saying that it is risky.

It took around one and a half hours to start the rescue operation for the MV Abhijan-10 launch fire. Fire Service and Civil Defence sources said although they had come to know of the fire within 15 minutes of its origination, they lacked the logistics required to fight it in the water on a cold winter night.

Locals, who rescued many passengers after MV Abhijan-10 caught fire early on December 24 in Jhalakathi, said most of the lives perished in the tragedy could have been saved had the launch staffers acted responsibly.

Professional duties called numerous people to Jiakul village and neighbouring areas in Jhalakathi. The areas are adjacent to the Sugandha river, where MV Abhijan-10 caught fire early Friday, resulting in 42 deaths and over hundred cases of injury.

Pakhi and Hakim Sharif were done choosing a groom for their elder daughter Hafsa.

Royes Uddin Pashari did not plan to get involved with the Liberation War. Before it began, he was already one of the richest people in Pirojpur, so there was little incentive for him to get swept away by the sirens of the battlefield.

Panic has gripped fishers in Pirojpur and Barguna after incidents of piracy rose sharply along the coast of the two districts in the past several weeks.

For the past three years, the government has been imposing 65 days of fishing ban in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Bangladesh at Bay of Bengal.  

“Without his income, we are powerless,” says Nasima Begum, 30, a resident of the Kholpatua village in Pirojpur, when speaking about her husband,

Several unauthorised brick kilns have been removing earth from the embankment along the Katcha river in Indurkani upazila for over a year, but the authorities still seem to be oblivious of the criminal act.

Many people rear pigeon as a hobby. But not too many of them ever come close to turning it into a source of income.

Believe it or not, guava is selling at Tk 5 per kg at the wholesale markets in Pirojpur, Jhalakathi and Barishal districts.

The fall in production of guavas and hog plums has affected the sale of boat significantly, leaving the boat sellers in utter despair amid coronavirus outbreak in Nesarabad upazila of the district.

Many ordinary people are compelled to receive ‘wrong treatment’ from so-called local doctors amid the pandemic. In some cases, such treatment has even led to the death of the patient.

Over three thousand people of Togra and Umedpur villages beside the Kacha river in Indurkani upazila under Pirojpur are suffering as no permanent embankment was made to protect them from regular tidal waves after super cyclone Sidr destroyed an earthen embankment there on November 15 in 2007.