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Habibur Rahman

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Jibanananda archive and library still locked a year after completion

The archive remains closed as no staff have yet been appointed for its operations
9 June 2025, 12:40 PM
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Nature quest / Of broken wings and empty eyes

Tangled in a protective net, a black drongo hangs dead above a fish enclosure in Madhabhakhati village in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila. Farmers and fishery owners have set up such nets over enclosures and crop farms to ward off pests
21 June 2024, 04:43 AM
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Nature quest: Too hot for the cold blooded

An oriental garden lizard takes a sip of water from a drying puddle on the road in Jalma area of Khulna's Batiaghata upazila recently. Lizards are ectothermic, or "cold blooded" animals, which means they rely on the environment around them to regulate their body temperature, unlike mammals who can produce heat internally to stabalise their temperatures
3 May 2024, 06:35 AM
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Nature quest: Gems of the forest

The axis deer, chittra horin in Bangla, is one of the more precious belongings of the Sundarbans. This herd was seen wandering outside of the mangrove forest to eat grass under the open sky.
19 April 2024, 05:33 AM
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Nature quest / Giants of the Sundarbans

A saltwater crocodile was spotted roaming the Sundarbans recently. Native to saltwater habitats, brackish wetlands, and freshwater rivers, saltwater crocodiles are known as the largest living reptiles in the world
22 March 2024, 03:42 AM
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NATURE QUEST / Plastic for bread

At one end of the world, leaders from different countries have gathered to discuss climate change and how to save the environment from further deterioration. At the other end, monkeys are having to eat plastic and polythene discarded by tourists of the Sundarbans in Khulna
1 December 2023, 04:03 AM
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JUTE MILLS IN DISARRAY

Due to lack of maintenance, the once-vibrant mill compounds now appear to be haunted places with weeds and vines growing all over
8 July 2023, 06:18 AM
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Patuakhali, Pirojpur passengers suffer as bus services suspended

Passengers of Patuakhali are bearing the brunt as bus services in the district were suspended this morning (November 4, 2022) ahead of BNP’s divisional rally in Barishal tomorrow.
4 November 2022, 06:40 AM
Dhansiri-Jibananda Das.jpg

Jibanananda archive and library still locked a year after completion

The archive remains closed as no staff have yet been appointed for its operations
9 June 2025, 12:40 PM
khulna-dead_bird_3_1.jpg

Of broken wings and empty eyes

Tangled in a protective net, a black drongo hangs dead above a fish enclosure in Madhabhakhati village in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila. Farmers and fishery owners have set up such nets over enclosures and crop farms to ward off pests
21 June 2024, 04:43 AM
natures quest_469d.jpg

Nature quest: Too hot for the cold blooded

An oriental garden lizard takes a sip of water from a drying puddle on the road in Jalma area of Khulna's Batiaghata upazila recently. Lizards are ectothermic, or "cold blooded" animals, which means they rely on the environment around them to regulate their body temperature, unlike mammals who can produce heat internally to stabalise their temperatures
3 May 2024, 06:35 AM
chitra_deer-khulna.jpg

Nature quest: Gems of the forest

The axis deer, chittra horin in Bangla, is one of the more precious belongings of the Sundarbans. This herd was seen wandering outside of the mangrove forest to eat grass under the open sky.
19 April 2024, 05:33 AM
khulna crocodile

Giants of the Sundarbans

A saltwater crocodile was spotted roaming the Sundarbans recently. Native to saltwater habitats, brackish wetlands, and freshwater rivers, saltwater crocodiles are known as the largest living reptiles in the world
22 March 2024, 03:42 AM
khulna monkey

Plastic for bread

At one end of the world, leaders from different countries have gathered to discuss climate change and how to save the environment from further deterioration. At the other end, monkeys are having to eat plastic and polythene discarded by tourists of the Sundarbans in Khulna
1 December 2023, 04:03 AM
khulna_jute_mills_1.jpg

JUTE MILLS IN DISARRAY

Due to lack of maintenance, the once-vibrant mill compounds now appear to be haunted places with weeds and vines growing all over
8 July 2023, 06:18 AM
pirojpur_bus_strike_corr.jpg

Patuakhali, Pirojpur passengers suffer as bus services suspended

Passengers of Patuakhali are bearing the brunt as bus services in the district were suspended this morning (November 4, 2022) ahead of BNP’s divisional rally in Barishal tomorrow.
4 November 2022, 06:40 AM
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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
PK Halder

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
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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
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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
Ragib Ahsan

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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