Sushanta Ghosh

Traditional vegetable cultivation on floating beds sees a gradual increase in Banaripara upazila of Barishal.

The first autumnal art exhibition titled Sharodio, organised by Charukola, Barishal and Mritshilpi Sammelon O Sammanana, concluded recently at Ashwini Kumar Hall in Barishal. The exhibition displayed artworks by local aspiring artists.

The eleventh edition of a two-day traditional festival, in honour of clay artisans, concluded at Ashwini Kumar Hall in Barishal recently.

With Durga Puja just a few weeks away, artisans in Barishal are passing busy days to prepare idols for the biggest religious festival of the Bangalee Hindu community.

A two-day Nazrul Sangeet workshop and festival, in observance of the National Poet’s 43rd death anniversary, concluded in Barishal on Saturday.

Jatiyo Rabindra Sangeet Sammelan Parishad (JRSSP) hosted the 17th biannual district Tagore Conference at Barishal recently. Cultural activist Manabendra Batobayal inaugurated the programme by hoisting the national and organisational flags at Barishal Government Girls School, which was later followed by a road rally.

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.