Why are so many primary school buildings in Barguna dilapidated?

We need localised development that is attuned to people’s needs and sufferings, not flashy megaprojects

Police have been used regularly to muzzle the opposition in Bangladesh

The officer-in-charge of Bamna Police Station in Barguna was withdrawn today for slapping an assistant sub-inspector of police (ASI) while he was on duty at a human chain on August 8.

Coast guard members arrested a man in possession of 20 maunds (about 740kg) of venison from a trawler in Barguna’s Patharghata upazila early yesterday.

Around 70 acres of agricultural land of some 20 Rakhine people have allegedly been grabbed by a private company for setting up a coal-fired power plant in Barguna’s Taltali upazila.

The High Court yesterday issued a rule asking the respondents to explain within four weeks why they should not be directed to pay compensation to the families of Barguna school victims.

The High Court issues a rule asking the respondents to explain in four weeks why they should not be directed to provide adequate and proper compensation to the family of a Borguna school student who died and to her classmates who were injured as chunks of its building’s ceiling plaster fell on them.

Question paper for class-I students has surprisingly been leaked in Barguna.

A Jubo League man, also chairman of the managing committee of a high school under Amtali upazila in Barguna district, allegedly assaulted the headmaster of the school at about 5:30pm last Saturday.

Police have arrested the prime accused in the gang rape case of a Barguna schoolteacher.

A primary schoolteacher has allegedly been gang-rapped in Barguna's Betagi upazila.

Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Barguna Sadar Kazi Tariq Salman, who was sued for publishing a portrait of Bangabandhu recently, has been transferred to the cabinet division as senior assistant secretary.

Three members of Bangladesh Coast Guard are killed as a bus hit their motorcycle in Amtoli upazila of Barguna.

A man is killed in an attack by a crocodile at Tengragiri Eco Park in Barguna.

Remember last year's Bollywood blockbuster Bajrangi Bhaijaan? Where its protagonist tries to take a mute six-year-old Pakistani girl back to her homeland to reunite her with her family?

A patient died and four others were injured when an ambulance hit a roadside tree in Amtali upazila of Barguna this afternoon.

Two more people who were injured in clashes during Wednesday's municipal election in Barguna and Kishoreganj died from their wounds yesterday.

An elderly man who is injured in a clash during yesterday’s municipality elections in Barguna succumbs to his wounds.

Three people die as their motorbike crashes into a pick-up van in Amtoli upazila of Barguna this evening.