Hilsa catch falls, debts mount
19 August 2026
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.
19 August 2026
The bridge that never came to be
17 August 2026
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.
17 August 2026
Patuakhali pins hopes on EPZ for jobs, industrialisation
16 August 2026
A total of 306 plots will be created in the EPZ and divided into three categories
16 August 2026
200 trawlers stranded over ice shortage
13 August 2026
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.
13 August 2026
Power cuts leave 200 hilsa trawlers stranded in Patuakhali for lack of ice
12 August 2026
Twenty ice factories struggle to meet demand as fishermen face soaring prices and prolonged delays at fishing ports
12 August 2026
Missing for 32 yrs, Achia finally calls home
9 August 2026
A Facebook post reunites a daughter with her long-lost family, but borders keep them apart
9 August 2026
15 doctors against 81 posts at Barguna hospital
9 August 2026
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.
9 August 2026
Family card: A cushion for those struggling to get by
9 August 2026
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.
9 August 2026
Hard to get safe water
The shifting geography of the country's southern coast creates both opportunity and challenge. Eight remote shoals twenty kilometres
30 March 2017
Fund crisis leaves Sonakata Eco-park animals hungry
Animals in Sonakata Eco-Park in Tangargiri reserve forest under Taltoli upazila of Barguna are facing food crisis due
29 March 2017
Chars make Payra, Biskhali rivers risky for vessels
Movement of vessels is being greatly hampered due to emergence of chars (landmass rising from riverbed) in the Payra and Biskhali
23 March 2017
Monk on a mission
The importance of one's mother tongue is perhaps nowhere better understood than in Bangladesh. A mother tongue is an
13 March 2017
Hope for physically challenged people
A van equipped with modern treatment facilities appears as a blessing for poor physically challenged people in the district, thanks to the initiative of Jatiya Protibondhi Unnayan Foundation under the government's social welfare ministry.
8 March 2017
400-acre Kuakata forestland grabbed
Different real estate companies and some local influential people have grabbed over 400 acres of reserve forestland in Kuakata of the
2 March 2017
Tourists lose interest in Kuakata eco-park
Tourists from home and abroad are losing interest in visiting the Kuakata eco-park, though it was one of the best tourist spots in the country, as its walkways, link road, wooden bridge and tamarisk garden are badly damaged.
7 January 2017
Risky living in shaky buildings
Over 50 families are living amid life risk in 12 buildings of the staff quarters of Patuakhali West Zone Power
5 January 2017
Brick kilns on agri lands
A brick kiln is being set up in Amtali upazila on about four acres of land by a ruling party leader, violating the law that prohibits
3 January 2017
To legalise child marriage!
Under-aged Sadia was married to a young man of Shrirampur village, showing her to be marriageable by a registrar
27 December 2016
100 years of Latif Seminary
Patuakhali Latif Municipal Seminary, a famous non-government secondary level educational institution, is celebrating
18 December 2016
Picturesque Kuakata loses beauty
The Kuakata sea beach area sees gradual encroachment as a section of people are making illegal structures in the picturesque tourist
6 December 2016
Grabbers' eyes on river Khakdan in Barguna
The Khakdan river flowing through Barguna town is being filled up by local influential people who are constructing illegal structures on both sides of the river.
29 November 2016
Fish drying starts in coast
Seasonal fish drying has started in the coastal areas of Bhola, Patuakhali and Barguna and thousands of people, including a good number of women and children, are now engaged in the job.
24 November 2016
Over 150 Patuakhali primary school buildings unfit for use
Over 150 primary school buildings in seven out of eight upazilas in Patuakhali district have become badly damaged
20 November 2016
Inoperative for four years
The only seismograph in the country's southern part at Patuakhali Science and Technology University (PSTU) has remained inoperative for four years due to lack of a sensor.
9 November 2016
Charcoal plant on waqf land
After illegally occupying a 1.57 acre plot of land donated under Islamic law for charitable purpose, known as a waqf estate, a Jubo
3 November 2016
Land grabbers at it again in Kuakata beach
Illegal structures are springing up along the Kuakata beach ignoring a High Court directive issued five years ago.
1 November 2016
WB project changes ultra poor women's livelihood
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim will visit Rakudia village in Babuganj upazila under the district tomorrow to hear the success stories
16 October 2016
Mobile Computer lab: Youths' IT training for self-employment
The Department of Youth Development (DYD) has taken an innovative step to provide training to the youth on using computer and browsing the internet in Amtali upazila of Barguna.
5 October 2016