Sushanta Ghosh

Barishal Education Board (BEB) lodged a case with Barishal Airport Police Station against 18 HSC examinees and one staffer for forgery during HSC exams in 2019.

Good yield of amra (hog plum) fails to make the growers happy as the prices have fallen during the peak harvesting season.

Where there are sources that produce medical waste, there should also be means to dispose those of on a regular basis. Unfortunately, in a city like Barishal, there is no such mechanism for doing so, resulting in high risk of public health and environmental degradation.

Shabdali Group Theatre (SGT), a theatre troupe of Barishal, is starting a tour with their production, Baishakhini.

A health sub-centre at Poikkha-Nomorhut in Gachhua union of Muladi upazila has remained closed for nearly six months as no doctor and health service providers were there.

A first of its kind, the day-long international conference, ‘Current Literary Theories and Jibanananda Das’ was held recently at Jibanananda Das Conference Complex of Barishal University (BU).

Inadequate number of public toilets is very common in urban areas. But, the situation in Barishal has got worse over the last four years with three public toilets out of 12 being closed down during the period.

The two attackers, who hacked Barguna youth Rifat Sharif to death in front of his wife in broad daylight, are listed drug peddlers and accused in multiple narcotics and mugging cases.

A two-day photography exhibition, Life in the Frame, started at Ashwini Kumar Hall yesterday. Barishal Photography Club (BPC) organised the exhibition,

The family of a former zamindar, who was killed by Razakars after the country’s liberation, claims it received death threats from land grabbers in Barishal’s Shyampur village.

Cases of diarrhoea have risen alarmingly in Barishal in the last three days.

The air quality in Barishal city has gone far beyond the acceptable level as a government agency has been inactive for around eight years to stop toxic gas-emitting vehicles -- the major pollutant.

Fed up by continued indifference from authorities, a group of youngsters voluntarily started cleaning Tajkathi canal in Barishal city on Saturday.

Swapan Khandokar, a passenger of a BRTC bus plying on Khulna-Barishal route on Tuesday, got on the bus in dry clothes, but by the time he reached his destination, he was drenched. The roof of the dilapidated bus constantly leaked water from the pouring rain outside, to the point where some passengers were forced to open their umbrellas inside the vehicle.

To improve the drainage system and avoid waterlogging during the upcoming monsoon, Barishal City Corporation (BCC) has started a massive drive to clean all of the city's sewers.

The Department of Archaeology in Barishal is preparing to take over the Lakhutia Zamindar Bari and temple, one of the oldest archaeological sites in Barishal division.

The Barishal-1 constituency comprises two upazilas -- Gournadi and Agailjhara.

The Barishal city is yet to see fully-fledged electioneering by the major political parties although the polls are just two weeks away.

Hotel rooms in Barisal are filling up fast, with a large number of people coming in to the city to take part in electoral campaigns ahead of the city corporation polls.

People of a village in Hijla upazila have been working hard for the last three months to protect their village from erosion by the