Sohrab Hossain

A town hall built by Barguna Municipality to promote literary and cultural activities and host meetings and seminars has remained unfinished for eight years, despite crores of taka being spent on the project.

The theatre group Agun Mukha organised the performance with support from the District Shilpakala Academy. The play was staged in memory of noted late theatre personality and physician Fazlul Karim.

A key road in Barguna’s Amtali upazila has collapsed within a month of being renovated at a cost of more than Tk 8 crore.

Students of Char Karfarma Government Primary School in Galachipa upazila of Patuakhali have to swim across as many as five canals to attend classes, leaving many soaked by the time they reach school and some reluctant to attend.

Deep inside Sonarchar Wildlife Sanctuary, wild buffaloes move through coastal forest and swamp land on an island in the Bay of Bengal. But their numbers are shrinking fast, as poachers continue to target the animals despite repeated drives, arrests and criminal cases.

For Aker Ali Khan, 55, the peak hilsa season in the Tentulia river was supposed to be a time to earn enough to repay his debts and support his family for the rest of the year.

Khaleque Bhuiyan still remembers the day the piling equipment arrived at Payrakunj, seven kilometres from Patuakhali town, a spot where a bridge over the Payra river was finally meant to rise.

A total of 306 plots will be created in the EPZ and divided into three categories

At the height of the hilsa season, when fishing trawlers should be crowding the Bay of Bengal, around 200 remain stranded at the Mahipur and Alipur fish landing centres in Patuakhali due to an acute shortage of ice caused by frequent load-shedding.

Twenty ice factories struggle to meet demand as fishermen face soaring prices and prolonged delays at fishing ports

A Facebook post reunites a daughter with her long-lost family, but borders keep them apart

On a low-lying island in Patuakhali, 32-year-old Tanjila Begum’s husband works irregularly as a day labourer in nearby watermelon fields, where seasonal tidal surges often destroy crops and wipe out daily earnings.

Barguna General Hospital, the district’s main government-run healthcare facility serving nearly 12 lakh people, has long been grappling with an acute shortage of doctors.

Just 15 doctors against 81 posts, forcing patients to travel to Barishal and Dhaka for care

Patients and their families have been suffering due to the unavailability of ambulance services at Patuakhali Medical College Hospital.

Lack of approach roads forces thousands to risk their lives daily in Patuakhali

Hanif Chowkidar, a farmer in Patuakhali’s Galachipa upazila, had planned to cultivate Aman paddy on 5.26 hectares this season. He spent around Tk 22,000 on four maunds (1 maund = 37.32kg) of seed and prepared a seedbed.

Patuakhali entrepreneur believes local antivenom production could cut imports and create jobs

A rare mangrove forest in Barguna’s Taltali upazila is facing growing pressure from unregulated tourism and attempts at unplanned development, raising concerns over the future of the fragile coastal ecosystem.

Patuakhali entrepreneur believes local antivenom production could cut imports and create jobs