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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
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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
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Onion farmers forced to buy fertiliser above govt rates

Price hikes drive up production costs, dampen early cultivation
28 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Apparel waste fetching foreign currency

Abdul Momin used to work at a garment factory in Dhaka a couple of years ago. Now he runs a small factory at his Banglabazar village home and produces T-shirts that are exported to a neighbouring country. Starting with Tk 10,000, his factory is now valued at Tk 5 lakh.
16 May 2019, 18:00 PM
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Rabindra festival concludes in Shahzadpur Kuthibari

The 158th birth anniversary of noble laurate Rabindranath Tagore was observed with a two-day long festival at the Tagore’s establishment Shahzadpur Kuthibari in Sirajganj, which concluded yesterday.
9 May 2019, 18:00 PM
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In search of a lost time

Archaeologists in Sirajganj have unearthed a brick structure which they claimed could be more than 1,000 years old.
26 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Nuclear energy to cut carbon contamination

Nuclear energy is the only medium of reducing carbon contamination in order to tackle the greenhouse effect and therefore the developing countries must prioritise clean energy sources, experts said at ATOMEXPO 2019.
18 April 2019, 18:00 PM
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Visual impairment no barrier to education, they prove

Eleven visually impaired youths hailing from different districts are appearing in the ongoing Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations at two centres of Pabna this year, thanks to the initiative of Manob Kollan Trust, a humanitarian organization.
10 April 2019, 18:00 PM
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596 outlaws surrender

Some 596 operatives of different outlawed parties yesterday surrendered to Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan by handing over their firearms in Pabna.
9 April 2019, 18:00 PM
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Massacre lost from pages of history

It was during breakfast time when Nasiman Bewa, a resident of Dogachhi village in Pabna sadar upazila, heard the sound of gunfire invading the usual tranquillity in the air.
26 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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A passage shrinks to suffocate them

The once spacious corridor that the members of about 200 impoverished Hindu families used to get access to the nearby road has been shrunken so much so that it is impossible to carry a person on wheelchair now.
13 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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Late music maestro neglected in hometown

Legendary classical musician Barin Mazumder seems to be a forgotten hero in his hometown while his two sons are now engaged in a legal battle to get back their ancestral property that were lost to illegal occupier long ago.
16 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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Teachers, students worried as rail line to be set beside schools

Construction of a railway line in front of two schools along the Ishwardi-Rooppur road in Pabna has made teachers and parents of more than 800 students worried.
10 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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Villagers guard at night to ward off thieves and robbers

People of Chatmohar upazila have been spending sleepless nights patrolling different villages in the upazila with law enforcers for the last one week due to a rise in theft and robberies from the beginning of this month.
24 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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House neglected, items scanty at Suchitra Sen memorial museum

People visiting the ancestral house of Suchitra Sen in Pabna return disappointed due to the very small collection of memorabilia and lack of maintenance of the house.
16 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Poor fish supply upsets shutki makers in Chalanbeel

Fish farmers of Pabna, Sirajganj and Natore districts in Chalanbeel region are busy producing dried fish (shutki), but they are quite depressed this year as they are not getting adequate supply of local varieties of fish from the biggest waterbody in north Bengal.
2 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Learning in the open

Taherul Islam, a retired primary teacher of Shara-Gopalpur village in Pabna's Ishwardi upazila, set up a free school for underprivileged children seven years ago.
8 December 2018, 18:00 PM
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Navigability crisis in Jamuna

Navigability crisis in the Jamuna river badly hampers movement of vessels, much to the inconvenience of cargo boats heading for Baghabari river port in Sirajganj from early November.
6 December 2018, 18:00 PM
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A legacy fading away

“Coffee houser shei addata aaj aar nei”, “Maago, bhabna keno, amra tomar shantipriyo shanto chhele” and many other songs by lyricist Gauri Prasanna Mazumder ring through the hearts of Bangalees across the world.
5 December 2018, 18:00 PM
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Deprived of care they deserve

Some 21 years after the Pabna Mental Hospital (PMH) -- the country's first specialised hospital for patients with mental disorders -- was upgraded to a 500-bed facility in 1997, it is still operating with the manpower of a 200-bed hospital.
9 October 2018, 18:00 PM
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To our boatmen, from the heart

“Oh Dada, bring your boat, I have to go home.” It's the call of villagers that will forever live in the sentiments of fifty-year-old Bimal Kumar, though he won't hear it anymore.
30 September 2018, 18:00 PM
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On hunt for roots

Mentoo, who was formerly known as Mintoo, reached into his pocket and drew out a sepia-toned photograph. “I have a childhood photograph and can recall the name of Nagarbari ghat in Pabna's Bera upazila. Nothing else,” he said in crisp English.
10 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Installation of Core Catcher begins

Installation of “core catcher”, the device for catching molten core (active part of the reactor that contains nuclear fuel) material began at unit no. 1 of Roopur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) on Saturday.
20 August 2018, 18:00 PM

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