The fading echo of Chalan Beel
7 March 2026, 00:44 AM
The Chalan Beel was once no less than a natural wonder -- a vast expanse of water where fishermen thrived, kingfishers and egrets hunted, and life moved with the rhythms of ebb and tide.
7 March 2026, 00:44 AM
Weavers face sluggish sales ahead of Eid
6 March 2026, 00:00 AM
The weeks before Eid-ul-Fitr, the country’s largest religious festival, are traditionally a ripe time for the clothing business. However, loom producers are facing a marked decline in sales this year, owing mainly to two factors -- little presence of foreign buyers and a lack of local wholesale trade.
6 March 2026, 00:00 AM
North Bengal Sugar Mills shuts early amid cane shortage
27 February 2026, 00:00 AM
The sugarcane crushing operations for the 2025-26 season at the state-owned North Bengal Sugar Mills in Lalpur, Natore, ended on Tuesday -- two weeks ahead of schedule -- due to a shortage of sugarcane.
27 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Onion prices ease on higher imports, harvests of early varieties
25 February 2026, 00:00 AM
With the main harvesting season for onions beginning in early March, prices of the popular bulb have fallen over the past week amid increased availability of early-harvested onions and imports, according to traders and farmers.
25 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Sunflower field in Pabna draws crowds
24 February 2026, 00:00 AM
A vibrant sunflower field at an agricultural farm in Tebunia of Pabna, operated by the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC), has drawn a surge of visitors.
24 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Internal rifts cost BNP seats in Pabna
16 February 2026, 00:00 AM
While the BNP secured a significant victory nationwide in the 13th parliamentary election, the party faced challenges in its traditional strongholds in Pabna district.
16 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Pabna races heat up as BNP, Jamaat lock horns
8 February 2026, 03:27 AM
Ahead of the upcoming 13th National Parliamentary Election, the five constituencies in Pabna district are witnessing intense contests between the candidates of the BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami.
8 February 2026, 03:27 AM
February 12 Election / Putul’s doorstep campaign in Natore-1
30 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Farzana Sharmin Putul is taking a personal approach to campaigning in Natore-1 ahead of the February 12 parliamentary election, presenting herself to voters not as a traditional political figure but as someone they can relate to and confide in.
30 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Farmers bear the brunt of milk scare
Alhaz Hossain, a dairy farmer from Pabna’s Chatmohar, yesterday brought 30 litters of milk at the Pran Chilling Center (a unit of Pran Group for milk collection) at Sharatnagar Bazar in Bhangura, but to no avail.
29 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Rajanikanta Sen’s 154th birth anniv today
While locals observe the 154th birth anniversary of legendary poet, lyricist and singer Rajanikanta Sen, his ancestral house at Bhangabari village in Sirajganj’s Belkuchi upazila lies in utter neglect.
25 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Harmful Substances in Milk: Producers in a fix
Milk producers find themselves in a tight spot as the processing companies have slashed purchase due to a slump in demand over health concerns, say farmers and processors.
19 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Tragedy in Pabna: Railway builds temporary gate
The railway built a temporary gate yesterday at the level crossing of Sirajganj where 11 people of a bridal party were killed in a train-microbus crash the day before.
16 July 2019, 18:00 PM
10 killed as train hits microbus
A newly-married couple and at least eight others of the bridal party were killed when a Dhaka-bound train rammed their microbus at an unmanned level crossing in Sirajganj’s Ullapara upazila yesterday evening.
15 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Tanter sari losing out to cheap import
Many traditional sari weavers are switching to other professions as handloom owners in Sirajganj -- renowned for its affordable handwoven saris, known as ‘tanter sari’ -- are being forced to put a significant number of handlooms out of operation.
18 June 2019, 18:00 PM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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