Skip to main content
Home
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
When will women athletes get safe space in Bangladesh?
How will the interim govt tackle the discontent in administration?
Bangladesh cricket: Is the old culture of interference back?

Main navigation

  • News
    • Politics
    • Governance
    • Crime and Justice
    • Accidents and Fires
    • Technology
    • Education
    • Healthcare
    • Environment
    • World
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Views
    • Interviews
  • Business
    • Economy
    • Agriculture
    • E-commerce
    • Industry
    • Startups
    • Global Economy
  • Sports
    • Cricket
    • Football
    • Tennis
  • Lifestyle
    • Fashion
    • Relationships
    • Heath and Wellness
    • Food and Recipe
    • Travelogue
  • Culture
    • Entertainment
    • Books and Literature
    • Heritage
    • Tv & Film
  • Slow Reads
  • Youth
    • Academics
    • Career and Skills
    • Campus Life
    • Off Campus
    • Pop Culture
  • Ds+
    • Business +
    • Investigative Stories
    • Roundtables
    • Supplements
    • Law & Our Rights
    • My Dhaka
  • বাংলা
  • E-paper
  • Today’s News
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
  • E-paper
  • Today’s News

Main navigation

  • News
    • Politics
    • Governance
    • Crime and Justice
    • Accidents and Fires
    • Technology
    • Education
    • Healthcare
    • Environment
    • World
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Views
    • Interviews
  • Business
    • Economy
    • Agriculture
    • E-commerce
    • Industry
    • Startups
    • Global Economy
  • Sports
    • Cricket
    • Football
    • Tennis
  • Lifestyle
    • Fashion
    • Relationships
    • Heath and Wellness
    • Food and Recipe
    • Travelogue
  • Culture
    • Entertainment
    • Books and Literature
    • Heritage
    • Tv & Film
  • Slow Reads
  • Youth
    • Academics
    • Career and Skills
    • Campus Life
    • Off Campus
    • Pop Culture
  • Ds+
    • Business +
    • Investigative Stories
    • Roundtables
    • Supplements
    • Law & Our Rights
    • My Dhaka
  • News
    • Politics
    • Governance
    • Crime and Justice
    • Accidents and Fires
    • Technology
    • Education
    • Environment
    • Healthcare
    • World
  • Opinion
    • Editorial
    • Views
    • Interviews
  • Business
    • Economy
    • Agriculture
    • E-commerce
    • Industry
    • Startups
    • Global Economy
  • Sports
    • Cricket
    • Football
    • Tennis
  • Lifestyle
    • Fashion
    • Relationships
    • Heath and Wellness
    • Food and Recipe
    • Travelogue
  • Culture
    • Entertainment
    • Books and Literature
    • Heritage
    • Tv & Film
  • Slow Reads
  • Youth
    • Academics
    • Career and Skills
    • Campus Life
    • Off Campus
    • Pop Culture
  • Ds+
    • Business +
    • Investigative Stories
    • Roundtables
    • Supplements
    • Law & Our Rights
    • My Dhaka

Footer

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Comment policy
  • Apps
  • Archive
© 2025 thedailystar.net | Powered by: RSI Lab

Copyright: Any unauthorized use or reproduction of The Daily Star content for commercial purposes
is strictly prohibited and constitutes copyright infringement liable to legal action.

Ahmed Humayun Kabir Topu

Mothurapur dairy cow trading hub

Mothurapur: From a quiet village to a dairy cow trading hub

Mothurapur village, under Chatmohar upazila of Pabna, has transformed over the past two decades from a poverty-stricken settlement into a bustling hub for dairy cow trading.
27 November 2025, 18:00 PM
dist-admin-pabna.jpg

District admin moves to lease out parts of rivers again

Pabna district administration has issued a circular to lease out different portions of rivers across the district, naming them as enclosed waterbodies, for fish farming.
1 November 2025, 18:00 PM
onion-farmers-1.jpg

Onion farmers forced to buy fertiliser above govt rates

Price hikes drive up production costs, dampen early cultivation
28 October 2025, 18:00 PM
boral-river-pollution.jpg

Encroachment, pollution choking the Boral

Rampant encroachment and indiscriminate pollution have long been choking the Boral River in the Chalan Beel area of Pabna’s Chatmohar upazila by restricting its natural flow.
19 October 2025, 19:44 PM
pabna.jpg

Echoes of grandeur linger in Haturia’s fading palaces

Tucked away on the banks of the Jamuna in Pabna’s Bera upazila, the remote village of Haturia holds on to a remarkable past.
10 October 2025, 19:09 PM
mental-health.jpg

Emergency care eludes mental health patients

Mental health in Bangladesh remains a topic many find difficult to discuss even in 2025, entangled in social stigma and widespread misconceptions.
9 October 2025, 18:00 PM
illegal-township.jpg

Illegal township sprouts on railway land

An illegal township has sprouted on around 150 acres of railway land previously leased out for agriculture and fish farming in Bhangura upazila of Pabna.
1 October 2025, 18:00 PM
chalan-beel-1.jpg

How duck farming reshaped Chalan Beel’s economy

When monsoon waters from surrounding rivers pour into Chalan Beel, the vast wetland once famed as the “House of Fish” comes alive. For generations, fishing in the wet season and field farming in the dry season sustained its people. In recent decades, thousands of ducks have joined the ecosystem, gliding across the waters in their flocks, lifting people out of poverty and reshaping the economy.
25 September 2025, 18:00 PM
Corona woe dairy farmers 1.jpg

Corona brings woe for dairy farmers in Pabna, Sirajganj

A large number of dairy farmers in Pabna and Sirajganj are facing a tough time as big milk factories have drastically cut collection of the item from the famous milk producing zone during the ongoing general holidays and countrywide shutdown-like situation aimed at containing the spread of coronavirus.
30 March 2020, 18:00 PM

Truckers left idle as EPZ shipments put on hold

Over the past few years, Md Khasru Miah, a truck driver of the Baba Solaiman transport agency in Ishwardi, typically made at least five trips per month to deliver materials used for manufacturing export-oriented products in Ishwardi export processing zone.
25 March 2020, 18:00 PM
bangabandhu3.jpg

Pabna people’s fond memory of Bangabandhu

As the nation observes the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the people of Pabna feel nostalgic because of his association with Nagarbari ferry terminal and ‘Mujib Bandh’, a flood control embankment along Padma and Jamuna rivers.
16 March 2020, 18:00 PM
National Rabindra Sangeet Assembly.jpg

National Rabindra Sangeet Assembly concludes in Sirajganj

A three-day festival, marking the 39th National Assembly for Rabindra Sangeet, concluded in Sirajganj recently, with discussions, cultural programmes and a rally. Jatiya Rabindra Sangeet Shammilon Parishad (JRSSP) organised the event at the Sirajganj Government College.
10 March 2020, 18:00 PM
Two female heroes.jpg

Language Movement in Pabna: Two heroes still not recognised

In 1948, when Dhirendranath Dutta’s proposal to recognise Bangla as one of the state languages of the then Pakistan was rejected in the parliament, protest raged like fire all over the erstwhile East Pakistan.
20 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Mindless sand lifting 1.jpg

Mindless sand lifting wreaks havoc in Padma, Jamuna rivers

Illegal sand lifting from the major rivers in the district, especially the Padma and the Jamuna, has continued for years, although the district administration officially stopped leasing the sand fields in 2010 following an injunction by the curt.
12 February 2020, 18:00 PM
woman corner.jpg

Pabna marketplace for empowering rural women: Good initiative failing

A marketplace established in Pabna’s Satbaria Bazar to promote rural women entrepreneurs is about to be closed allegedly for lack of fund and patronisation.
9 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Women Corner Satbaria Bazar.jpg

A good initiative failing

The Women’s Corner at Satbaria Bazar in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila, aiming at encouraging rural women traders, is about to be closed amid lack of sufficient backing.
6 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Chotoder chokhe nirbachon_Thumbnil.jpg

Pabna student cabinet polls held peacefully

Students of 548 educational institutions, including 313 high schools and 235 madrasas, recently joined the Student Cabinet elections to elect their leaders.
30 January 2020, 13:14 PM
Bedridden female freedomfighter.jpg

Bedridden female FF in need of treatment

Freedom fighter Vanu Nesa, now bedridden at her Tetulia village home in Pabna’s Santhia upazila due to old age complications, is in dire need of quality medical treatment.
18 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Suchitra Sen.jpg

7th death anniversary of Suchitra Sen today

Today marks the 7th death anniversary of legendary actor Suchitra Sen. The actor breathed her last on January 17 in 2013 in Kolkata. The star orginally hailed from Pabna.
16 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Sirajganj Baul Shilpigoshthi.jpg

‘Pala Gaan’ programme in Shirajganj

Marking the 15th founding anniversary of Sirajganj Baul Shilpigoshthi, a leading cultural organisation based in the northern districts of Bangladesh, a two-day Pala Gaan session was recently organised by its artistes at the Shahid Monsur Ali Auditorium.
15 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Pabna sugar mill.jpg

Pabna sugar mill saw no profit since inception

State-Owned Pabna Sugar Mill, which has yet to see profits since its establishment in the mid-90s, started this season’s production last month with a debt of Tk 575 crore.
11 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Spiralling price lifts.jpg

Spiralling price lifts up hope

Pabna farmers are cultivating more land for the second season of onion eyeing the high price of the spice in the market, forgetting the loss they had suffered from their flood-hit crops in the September-October season.
1 January 2020, 18:00 PM
Pabna-map-web.jpg

Fifth grader left to die for Tk 2,500

“Please give me a pillow, I want to sleep with my parents,” 12-year-old Arafat moaned in pain when police rescued him from a sugarcane field in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila early Monday. He had been lying there with a severe head injury for about 12 hours.
17 December 2019, 18:00 PM
MP Bazar.jpg

MP Bazar on govt land!

Encroachers, backed by former lawmaker of Pabna-2 constituency, grabbed a portion of Jamuna river land along with riverbank properties owned by various government departments in Pabna’s Bera upazila to set up a market.
11 December 2019, 18:00 PM
Pabna-map-web.jpg

Land dispute threatens solar plant

Locals on a char of the Padma in Pabna’s Sagarkand claim that they own the land the government allocated for a solar power plant and are demanding compensation for their loss of land and livelihood.
7 December 2019, 18:00 PM
train derailment.jpg

Wrong signal or flawed repair work?

A week after the rail accident in Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila on November 14, the district administration and railway (west zone) in their probe reports have identified separate reasons behind the incident.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Icchamati.jpg

Ichhamati now a trickle

The Ichhamati, the once vibrant river that features prominently in several Bangla literary works, has turned into a narrow channel filled with garbage, thanks to rampant encroachment and indiscriminate dumping of waste.
16 November 2019, 18:00 PM
train.jpg

Sirajganj Train Derailment: Dhaka-Ishwardi rail connection restored 30 hrs after accident

Rail connection between Dhaka and Ishwardi was resumed yesterday, 30 hours after it was disrupted due to a rail accident in Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila.
15 November 2019, 18:00 PM

Pagination

  • Show more
Home
Journalism without fear or favour
Follow Us

Footer

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Comment policy
  • Apps
  • Archive
© 2025 thedailystar.net | Powered by: RSI Lab

Copyright: Any unauthorized use or reproduction of The Daily Star content for commercial purposes
is strictly prohibited and constitutes copyright infringement liable to legal action.