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Over 20,000 dairy farmers in Pabna affected by lockdown

More than 20,000 dairy farmers in Pabna region are in deep trouble with about 1 million liters of milk produced in their farms, due to the nationwide strict lockdown.Amid this lockdown private milk processing companies in Pabna have stopped collecting milk from local dairy farmers. In addition, loca...

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Pandemic pushes Pabna weavers into distress

Weavers in Pabna and Sirajganj districts are spending idle times before Eid this year. Usually a busy industry which spends busy time ahead of Eid weaving clothes in loom are now seem jobless due to COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands of weavers in the region now wait for work order to thrive again.After v...

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Decrease in ground water level causes dire water crisis in Pabna

In Pabna, common people are facing a dire crisis of water as the ground water level has gone down. In some areas deep tube wells are also not reacing the water level. There has been an acute shortage of drinking water. During the holy month of Ramadan, people of different villages in Pabna are ...

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World-class mental hospital project at Pabna uncertain

Due to the indifference of those responsible for recovering 100 Bighas of land grabbed from Pabna Mental Hospital, causing uncertainty in the implementation of the world class improvement project of the specialized hospital. There is no progress in implementing the instructions of the Departmen...

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PM’s gift brings smile to faces of homeless

With the slogan ‘Right to Asylum is Sheikh Hasina's gift’, like the whole country 1,086 landless and homeless people are getting houses in Pabna as a gift of the Prime Minister marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.These houses built at...

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Apiculturists busy collecting honey from mustard field in Pabna

Apiculturists are now busy to collect honey from Mustard field at nine upazilas in Pabna. The Mustard field of the district are now full of rows of boxes of rearing honey bees. The apiculturists are expecting to collect honey for next two-month since the Mustard plant remains in the flowering s...

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Real fishermen can’t fish here

The second largest beel (waterbody) in the country is Pabna's Gajnar Beel. Although real fishermen have been making a living by fishing in the beel for ages, they have now been evicted. Disobeying the government rules, some influential fishermen from 15 km away are fishing on a huge lease (...

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Govt to blacklist 122 rice mills in Pabna

Boro season paddy collection target in Pabna has not been met this year. In nine upazilas of the district, 24571 metric tons of rice and 6695 metric tons of paddy have been procured in the stipulated time, 14396 metric tons of rice and 621 metric tons of paddy have been procured.The procurement camp...

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Pabna potter families in dire straits amid Covid-19

Potter families locally known as Pal families in Pabna are having a very hard time amid this corona crisis so many are leaving their ancestral profession and engaging in other professions.It is learned that at one time there were about ten thousand Potter families in 72 unions under 9 upazilas of Pa...

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Traffic jam, waterlogging become bane for residents of Pabna town

Although Pabna is a first class municipality, the civic amenities have not come yet. Residents of the municipal area have become restless due to daily traffic jams, waterlogging and occupation of sidewalks in the town.Waterlogging in different parts of the district town due to light rain and mobile ...

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Old woman staying on highway for a month

An old woman has been lying on the side of the road at Maligachha 6 km (adjacent to Manoharpur big bridge) on the Pabna-Ishwardi highway for a month. Her approximate age is 80 years. Accident can happen at any moment. Some people in the area have helped the old woman with various food items.Upon rec...

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Pabna Sugar Mills sustains losses

The Pabna Sugar Mills Ltd Authority owes Tk 31 crore to the mills workers and sugarcane farmers. Of this, about 25 crore is for sugarcane farmers and 6 crore is for workers. As a result, they are living an inhuman life in extreme financial crisis during the Corona epidemic.The information has come t...

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Biofloc fish farming in Pabna

Fish farming is being done in three 13 feet wide and three and a half feet deep water filled houses. In the houses, about 10 thousand liters of water cultivates different species and different sizes of fish. Oxygen is supplied through multiple pipes in each house. This method of scientific fish...

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Snake infestation in Pabna, no antidote in local hospitals

With the onset of monsoon in Pabna, poisonous snakes have infested houses and char areas. During the coronavirus period, the infestation of snakes has created another panic among the people. Russell’s viper, one of the rarest species of venomous snakes in the world, is also seen regularly...

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Farmers harvest half-ripe paddy

Paddy farmers across the country have started suffering from acute shortage of farm labour to harvest their hard-earned produce as the fear of storm and lack of public transport, triggered by the ongoing shutdown to rein in coronavirus, has confined labourers to their homes. Farmers in Chatmoha...

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Hundreds of thalassemia patients are in safe blood crisis in Pabna

May 8 was the World Thalassemia Day. Thalassemia is a fatal disorder. There is no cure for this disease even today. To avoid this disease, patients with thalassemia have to live with the blood of others. Which is a very unfortunate treatment and painful.552 thalassemia patients in Pabna district are...

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Nahida RULA’s first woman president

Advocate Nahid Sultana Juthi, who has been involved in politics since university life, is currently serving as the first woman president of the Rajshahi University Law Alumni Association (RULA).She is a renowned lawyer of the Bangladesh Supreme Court and also the wife of Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash, t...

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Veg farmers set unique example

When the farmers of Ishwardi Upazila are yet to supply their crops in the capital and other districts due to the halt of transport movements in the recent Corona situation destroying crops in the farmers home then the vegetable farmers of Ishwardi Upazila in Pabna have  set an example donating ...

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Severe cold causes life miserable in Pabna

Severe cold causes life miserable in Pabna. People are facing immense sufferings as life becomes stagnant. Day laborers are facing acute problem during this time. Upper class and middle class people hardly go outside at this time. For the last two days sun lights didn’t reach as heavy fog cove...

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19 cargo ships remained stranded

At least 19 cargo ships carrying goods remained stranded by being struck in shallow, sub-merged Charland in the Padma-Jamuna rivers due to lack of navigability.  Till Monday last, those cargo ships remained stranded at Rajdhardia, Char Sibalya and Nakalichar of the rivers, three kilometres down...