Silk business faces tough times
Life for weavers and workers of handloom silk clothing in Chapainawabganj has taken a rough turn as sales of these dearer garments dipped due to the pandemic.
19 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Mango growers feeling the squeeze
Amid the coronavirus scare, a lack of buyers due to inadequate measures for marketing and transportation leaves mango growers worried.
1 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Low demand for milk puts cattle rearing community in distress
Pasturers rearing cattle for milk in Chapainawabganj are facing hardship as the demand for their product plunged following the coronavirus outbreak in the country.
4 May 2020, 13:03 PM
Mothers attend school with their children
Aiming to improve children’s performance, a school in Chapainawabganj has been encouraging mothers to attend classes with their children.
11 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Meal for Tk 5 only!
Mehman is a term commonly used for guests who come to visit a home.
But at Chapainawabganj Adhunik Sadar Hospital, patients and their attendants get treated as ‘Mehman’ by a local voluntary group.
10 October 2019, 18:00 PM
No hurdle big enough
When children of her age usually look for any excuse to skip school if there is a little rain or the neighbourhood street is swamped with rainwater, seventh grader Taslima Khatun swims across not one, but two canals to get to her school every day.
2 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Solar lights now light up ‘Alpona Gram’
Tikoil village, popularly known as “Alpona Gram”, in Chapainawabganj has got another feather in the cap with installation of solar street lights.
22 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Girl diagnosed with rare skin disease
Four-year old Tasfia Jahan Munira’s countenance is just like any other child.
Only when someone looks at her body, the disease, afflicting the little girl in Chapainawabganj’s Nachole upazila’s Godown para, jars the mind.
11 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Nature Quest: The Jacobin’s Bangladeshi summer
A visitor bird and seen often during summer, the Jacobin Cuckoo has made yet another appearance in Bangladesh during it’s mating season.
11 July 2019, 18:00 PM
Fani’s silver lining: A blessing for mangoes
The rain that the weakened cyclonic storm Fani brought yesterday has made the mango farmers of Rajshahi region happy, considering prospect of a good yield.
4 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Unique effort to promote Adivasi languages
Chapainawabganj administration has for the first time printed invites for the International Mother Language Day programmes in five languages, including three indigenous ones.
17 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Mango, even in winter
The mangoes of Chapainawabganj, a delicacy of Bangladeshi summer, are now available amid the chills of winter.
9 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Children's park or grazing field!
Collectorate Shishu Park, the only children's park in Chapai-nawabganj town, has not seen any renovation for nearly one and a half decades and remained virtually unusable.
5 December 2018, 18:00 PM
At home in the saddle
She's determined and courageous: at the tender age of twelve, Tasmina Aktar from Chak Subolpur village in Naogaon's Dhamoirhat upazila has quite a reputation in horse racing circles. The seventh-grade student is accustomed to placing first or second in any race. As a jockey she's participated in around fifty events. Tasmina is a girl undeterred, happy to compete in a sport usually reserved for men.
18 September 2018, 18:00 PM
Mangoes hit C'nawabganj market, finally
With the ban on harvesting lifted and after a week's delay in ripening, mangoes have finally started making an appearance in the markets in Chapainawabganj, a district famous for its high quality mangoes, since Monday.
29 May 2018, 18:00 PM
Nature Quest: Birds of the beel
Like a reverse oasis, parcels of land in Mohadanga area in Chapainawabganj have emerged from the depths, being the solitary spot for
19 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Mental illness shatters dream of RU female student
Once celebrated for being an honours student, Chhaya Debi Tudu brought fame to her community for being the first from their neighbourhood to obtain GPA-5 in the public exams.
20 March 2018, 18:00 PM
A river getting lost to siltation
The Pagla river that flows through two upazilas of Chapainawabganj sees a gradual decrease in water flow and is heading towards
15 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Khirsapat mangoes to get GI status
An internationally-recognised sign used on specialty products, geographical indication links products with their specific origin, be it a country, town
24 February 2018, 18:00 PM
C'nawabganj public health services dismal
A little good advice: don't get sick in Chapainawabganj town. Health services at the Adhunik Sadar Hospital are in a deplorable state
27 January 2018, 18:00 PM