Sushanta Ghosh

With rows of boats docked along the bank, the shoreline of the Kuriana Khal (canal) in Pirojpur's Swarupkathi upazila may look like a wharf at first glance. But a closer look reveals a different story.

Preparations for 'Chaitra Sangkranti' and 'Pahela Baishakh' with various colourful programmes are going on full swing in Barisal city, to bid farewell to 1422 and welcome the Bangla New Year 1423 on Pahela Baishakh.

Though discrimination against any community living in today's heterogeneous society is more or less subtle, less frequently expressed

An acute water crisis has long been bashing the lives of Barisal city residents with the authorities concerned failing to maintain water supply to its stakeholders. The crisis has been compounded by a lack of power supply to the newly constructed two surface water treatment plants (SWTPs), six months after their construction.

For the last one month, people of Barisal city have been facing an acute water crisis. The ongoing scarcity of the

A four-day Jibanananda Utshab to observe the 117th birth anniversary of the great Poet Jibanananda Das is currently on at Ashwini Kumar Hall in his ancestral town Barisal, with a call for more study and research on him. The festival opened on Saturday and ends today.

The Jatiyo Potho Natya Utsab (National Street Theatre Festival), concluded on the open air stage in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall in Barisal City on Friday night.

Charukala Barisal, a fine arts institute in Barisal, arranged a three-day Barno Utsab at Aswini Kumar Hall in the city marking the International Mother Language Day.

A two-day Zainul festival began in Barisal on Wednesday.

A weeklong Shabdabali International Theatre festival, marking the 25th anniversary of Shabdaboli Studio Theatre, ended in Barisal on Friday, January 22.

Summit Group's Barisal power plant, the first private sector electricity project in the southern region, will begin

A weeklong International theatre festival opened in Barisal on the occasion of 25th anniversary of Shabdabali Studio Theatre yesterday.

The seventh annual reception ceremony to honour 'Pal and Kumars' (sculptors and artisans of idols) was held in Barisal on Tuesday with a call to create harmony between communities.

The girls cook for themselves, do the dishes, clean their rooms and wash their clothes.

Akhi is nine years old and Dalia is ten. Too poor to raise them, their mothers sent them in the care of a government orphanage.

Some 230 cops in Barisal had created a joint fund of around Tk 77 lakh to bribe their superiors for promotion. They had found out one of their bosses to mediate the matter and handed him over an amount from their collected money to accelerate the process of their promotion. All was well until some of the cops complained to higher authorities, finding the process taking time longer than they expected.

Some local influential people have put bamboo enclosures in the Arial Kha River for fish farming in Kismat Thakur Mallick area of

Inpatients of Barisal General Hospital have been undergoing untold sufferings due to suspension of water supply for the last 12 days

The authorities have imposed a seven-month-long restriction on plying of risky passenger carrying watercrafts, including small

Valuable trees including mahogany, rain tree, chambal and others are being felled beside the Barisal-Dhaka highway in the name of 'dressing' branches for road safety but forest and environment departments were not informed and no formal tender was called for the purpose.