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‘Yesterday’s attack cost BNP 10 lakh votes,’ AB Party’s Fuaad says

Calls for suspension of police officials in Barishal’s Babuganj
8 December 2025, 12:42 PM

Election becoming an inevitable process: Debapriya Bhattacharya

Reforms must break the corrupt system, he says
19 November 2025, 11:15 AM

Bus services to and from Barishal suspended after clash over half-fare

Nearly 100 buses vandalised, owners say; students refute allegations against them
16 November 2025, 08:06 AM

Two to die for rape, murder in Barishal

A Barishal tribunal has sentenced two men to death for raping and murdering a woman and later dumping her body in a canal in Hizla upazila in 2013.
15 September 2025, 18:50 PM

Restoration effort underway for Lakutia Zamindar Palace

The restoration work for the severely dilapidated two-storey mansion commenced on May 4, according to the Barishal Divisional Museum authority.
7 June 2025, 10:51 AM

Eid waste clean-up drive begins in Barishal city

Around 700 cleaning labourers began working simultaneously across all the 30 wards of the city corporation.
7 June 2025, 10:00 AM

Launch service suspended in Barishal for second consecutive day

The office also forecast continued rainfall throughout the day.
30 May 2025, 09:16 AM

Locals protest college student's death in Rab 'gunfight'

Autopsy confirms gunshot wound; locals deny drug links
23 April 2025, 17:17 PM

Woman killed, husband and son injured as bus hits motorbike in Barishal

A woman died and her husband and their two-year-old son were injured as a bus hit a motorcycle on Barishal-Kuakata highway in Bakerganj upazila of Barishal last night
18 January 2025, 09:17 AM

2 launches collide in Meghna due to dense fog, 10 injured

At lease 10 people were injured when two launches on Dhaka-Barishal route collided head-on due to the dense fog in the Meghna river of Chandpur early today
22 December 2024, 09:42 AM

Boat capsize: 3 more bodies recovered from Kirtankhola river

Three more bodies were recovered from the Kirtankhola river today, bringing the death toll to four after a speedboat collided with an anchored sand-laden barge in Barishal on December 5
8 December 2024, 11:04 AM

Students lock BU VC’s office, demand resignation

A group of Barishal University students locked and sealed the office of its Vice-Chancellor Professor Suchita Sharmin last evening
28 November 2024, 19:45 PM

Barishal dwellers in limbo over death records

Arsonists had set fire to the five-story building following the fall of Sheikh Hasina's government. This incident destroyed all death records, stored vaccines, and mosquito control equipment
13 November 2024, 13:18 PM
31 October 2024, 06:08 AM

Kulsum Begum: the caretaker of Barishal’s crematorium

For the past 40 years, Kulsum has served as a dedicated helper in maintaining this crematorium
30 October 2024, 15:20 PM

Fire breaks out at the Barishal hospital

A fire broke out at the new medicine building of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barishal yesterday morning, leaving the hospital’s patients and their attendants in panic.
13 October 2024, 19:23 PM

Fire breaks out at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College in Barishal

A fire broke out at the warehouse of the Sher-e-Bangla Medical College's in Barishal this morning
13 October 2024, 04:48 AM

Intern doctors of Barishal's Sher-e Bangla Medical Hospital call off strike

Intern doctors in Barishal's Sher-e Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) called off their strike this afternoon a day after they went on work abstention demanding security at the hospital
29 September 2024, 10:04 AM

State Minister Zahid Faruk's house vandalised in Barishal

The house of State Minister for Water Resources Ministry Zahid Faruk in Bottola area of Barishal was vandalised today around 12:30pm
4 August 2024, 10:38 AM

Police pick up 12 BU students from ‘Remembering Our Heroes' programme

At least 12 Barishal University (BU) students were picked up by police this morning as they gathered in front of the campus on the Barishal-Kuakata highway to observe the "Remembering Our Heroes" programme
1 August 2024, 10:30 AM