Covid-19 Tests: People being turned away in Pabna
While Covid-19 cases continue to pile up in the districts as well as in cities, detection of Covid-19 has actually deteriorated in Pabna due to low testing since the first week of July.
19 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant: Rising infections among workers
More and more workers of different sub-contracting firms at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Ishwardi upazila are getting infected with the novel coronavirus.
9 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Cattle farmers deflated as coronavirus ravages up Eid market
The coronavirus outbreak has hit hard the cattle farmers in Pabna and Sirajganj as they are now getting hardly any customer for the animals they prepared for the last year targeting the Eid-ul-Azha this year.
7 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Jobless in Covid-19 pandemic, homeless in flood
“The coronavirus earlier closed our earning, and now flood has made us homeless,” said Mukti Khatun of Shuvogachha village in Sirajganj’s Kazipur upazila.
5 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Covid-19 in Pabna: Cases rising amid poor care
A government employee suffering from covid-19 was recently admitted to Pabna Medical College Hospital, which has a 100-bed Covid unit, but he was hurriedly shifted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital because of acute respiratory problem.
5 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Survival is priority: Sirajganj flood victims have no means to follow Covid-19 health rules
Around 25,000 families from five upazilas in Sirajganj are barely surviving on embankments or roads as their houses have been flooded.
3 July 2020, 13:01 PM
Stagnant water hampers cultivation
Waterlogging disrupts crop cultivation on over a thousand acres of land in a shallow waterbody at Pashchimchak in between Ahmedpur and Raninagar unions in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila.
22 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Faith different, last rites with same hands
A team of volunteers of Quantum Foundation take the responsibility of the last rites of the Covid-19 victims in Pabna, setting a unique example of dedication and courage during the pandemic.
18 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Good price ensures Pabna lychee growers’ recovery from double setbacks
Lychee growers in Pabna are all smiles as the fruit is fetching a good market price across the country after a shaky harvest.
18 June 2020, 14:18 PM
Pabna rice procurement in limbo
When the government is planning to store sufficient food grains for ensuring support in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the rice procurement drive in Pabna faces a hurdle due to alleged irregularities by a section of officials and ‘low prices’ offered to millers and farmers.
17 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Arranging last rites of Covid-19 victims irrespective of religion
As the Covid-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc across the world, it has also induced countless rare incidents. Whilst the virus is trying to defeat humanity, people are fighting against it -- setting examples of solidarity. The volunteers of Quantum Foundation in Pabna have set such an example.
16 June 2020, 14:29 PM
Jamuna swells rapidly
The Jamuna has been swelling rapidly over the last one week and has drowned low-laying areas in Sirajganj, threatening flash floods in the district.
30 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Boat capsize toll now 10
Bodies of five more people who drowned in a boat accident in the Jamuna on Tuesday were recovered yesterday, taking the death toll to 10.
28 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Cyclone Amphan leaves bitter taste for litchi farmers
The district agriculture extension office in Pabna says 22 to 25 percent of litchis -- worth around Tk 154 crore -- had been damaged by the strong winds whipped up by cyclone Amphan.
22 May 2020, 16:50 PM
‘Nobody can feel our pain’
This will be the first Eid for Arafat Haque, a lecturer of Demra University College, when he will not be able to buy anything new for his seven-year-old boy.
19 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Contrasting scenes at Rabindra Kacharibari in Shahzadpur
A building of the historic Rabindra Kacharibari, from where Rabindranath Tagore supervised his family estate in Sirajganj’s Sahzadpur upazila, lies in an awfully dilapidated condition, giving a striking contrast to the well maintained and decorated mansion of the great literary genius on the same premises.
14 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Silence of the looms
The fallout from Covid-19 has muffled the sound of looms and the buzz of the clothing markets this year during the peak business season for apparels, Eid-ul-Fitr.
7 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Nation reels towards poultry shortage
There has been a stunning slump in demand for meat and eggs since coronavirus arrived on these shores. And the dizzying speed at which the lethal pathogen went about upending life in the country prompted many farms, slapped by unprecedented losses, to cut back on production by more than half.
26 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Graves of Liberation War martyrs lie in neglect
Visitors of Pakshey railway office in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila are often surprised to see the awful condition of five graves of Liberation War martyrs near the Pakshey divisional railway office, often try to read the nearly deleted plaques.
20 April 2020, 18:00 PM
Suchitra Sen’s 89th birth anniversary passes in silence
The 89th birth anniversary of legendary film actress Suchitra Sen passed in silence yesterday as there is strict restriction on public gatherings to check the spread of global pandemic Covid-19.
6 April 2020, 18:00 PM