Unfavourable weather affects guava production
Unlike previous years, guava farmers in four unions of the Pirojpur and Jhalakathi upazilas are unconcerned about getting the expected prices for their produce as the time needed to make shipments has decreased substantially thanks to the opening of Padma Bridge.
31 July 2022, 03:45 AM
From Pirojpur's "Moru" to today's PK Halder
Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, is the eldest of three sons of primary school teacher Lilabati Haldar and tailor Pralab Chandra Halder of Matibhanga union under Pirojpur’s Nazirpur upazila.
16 May 2022, 07:09 AM
When greed trumps over need
Once waterways used to be the only means of communication at Mathbaria upazila. Hundreds of canals and tributaries of the Baleshwar and Bishkhali rivers flowed through it.
8 May 2022, 18:00 PM
Mat weaving dying
Nobody knows when artisans of the southern part of the country began the craft of making shital pati, a traditional naturally-cool woven mat.
2 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Ahsan Group embezzled at least Tk 130cr using religious clout: CID
It was corruption at a massive scale, undertaken by a single family.
16 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Banking on floating market to trade farm products
The Boithakata floating market on the Belua river in Pirojpur has transformed into a major centre for wholesalers as many people directly depend on the century-old market as their primary means of trade.
3 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Small income, big contribution
Getting up from bed early in the morning, Sabitri Halder goes to her backyard and takes a seat on the floor to weave floor mats from hogla leaves, a species of aquatic grass.
24 February 2022, 18:00 PM
BSCIC firms lament absence of direct road connectivity
Annually churning out some Tk 65 crore worth of products, businesses at the industrial estate of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Pirojpur are incurring extra expenses for the lack of direct road connectivity.
22 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Cricket bat making hub battles to stay afloat
The cricket bat making hub that has boomed in the last three decades in Pirojpur’s Nesarabad upazila might soon go out of business as producers have been facing severe losses since the pandemic hit the country two years ago.
19 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Headscarves: Liberalism, secularism and human rights regime put to question
Headscarves are garments mostly worn by Muslim women across the world as per religious obligations. But many educational institutions do not allow headscarves in the campus.
18 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Timber trade in Nesarabad sees Tk 1,000cr annual sales
The timber trade that has been running on the banks of the Sandhya river in Nesarabad upazila of Pirojpur for decades has emerged as the largest hub for woods in Bangladesh.
17 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Most of iron bridges in a shambles
The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) in Pirojpur has hanged signboards on both two sides of each iron bridge on Charkhali-Mathbaria road in the district saying that it is risky.
19 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Lack of logistics delayed rescue operation
It took around one and a half hours to start the rescue operation for the MV Abhijan-10 launch fire. Fire Service and Civil Defence sources said although they had come to know of the fire within 15 minutes of its origination, they lacked the logistics required to fight it in the water on a cold winter night.
3 January 2022, 18:00 PM
MV Abhijan-10 Fire: Locals blame staffers for loss of lives
Locals, who rescued many passengers after MV Abhijan-10 caught fire early on December 24 in Jhalakathi, said most of the lives perished in the tragedy could have been saved had the launch staffers acted responsibly.
29 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Launch fire tragedy : It was too much, even for the strongest
Professional duties called numerous people to Jiakul village and neighbouring areas in Jhalakathi. The areas are adjacent to the Sugandha river, where MV Abhijan-10 caught fire early Friday, resulting in 42 deaths and over hundred cases of injury.
27 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Who will marry off Hafsa now?
Pakhi and Hakim Sharif were done choosing a groom for their elder daughter Hafsa.
25 December 2021, 18:00 PM
The man who ‘smuggled’ freedom fighters
Royes Uddin Pashari did not plan to get involved with the Liberation War. Before it began, he was already one of the richest people in Pirojpur, so there was little incentive for him to get swept away by the sirens of the battlefield.
6 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Pirates prowling the Bay again
Panic has gripped fishers in Pirojpur and Barguna after incidents of piracy rose sharply along the coast of the two districts in the past several weeks.
27 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Fishing in Bay: Stymied by poor catch, lengthy ban
For the past three years, the government has been imposing 65 days of fishing ban in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Bangladesh at Bay of Bengal.
11 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Caught in the cycle
“Without his income, we are powerless,” says Nasima Begum, 30, a resident of the Kholpatua village in Pirojpur, when speaking about her husband,
26 June 2021, 18:00 PM