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A carcass of a ten-feet-long dolphin washed ashore on Kuakata beach at Kalapara in Patukhali on Friday. It was a bottlenose dolphin. It came along with the tide in the morning and got stuck on the sand in the eastern side of the beach.Member of Kuakata Dolphin Protection Committee, Abul Hossain...
An awareness meeting was held against the illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities in the ocean at Mombipara near Kuakata under Kalapara Upazila of Patuakhali on Thursday. Representative of different occupations including trawler owners, fishermen, sailors joined the meeting.Nur Hossai...
A six-year-old boy Isa lost his life after drowning in a village pond in Islampur in Kalapara of Patuakhali.Isa, the son of farmer Zahidul Islam was discovered in the pond by his relatives around 10 am on Thursday.According to family members, Isa was playing in the yard when the accident occurred. D...
Kuakata Naval Police apprehended 13 fishermen, along with an unnamed engine boat (Trawler), for violating the 65-day fishing ban in the Bay of Bengal near Kalapara, Patuakhali.The fishermen were intercepted by a patrol team of Kuakata Naval Police while operating in the deep sea on the eastern side ...
A mason was killed and three others were injured as they were struck by lightning at an under-construction building at Khalilpur village under Nilganj union in Kalapara of Patuakhali on Monday.The deceased was identified as Jakir Fakir, 60, resident of Khalilpur village of the district. The injured ...
A workshop focusing on the interpretation, dissemination, and sector-specific preparedness regarding the Bangladesh Cyclone Forecast Bulletin took place in Kalapara, Patuakhali on Wednesday.Presided over by Upazila Nirbahi Officer Md. Rabiul Islam, the workshop was convened at the Farmer Training Ce...
At least 27 fish stores were gutted in a fire that broke out at the Mahipur fish landing station at Kalapara upazila in Patuakhali district on Friday night. The fire originated around 8pm on Friday at Japan fish store and engulfed the adjacent store soon, said Raju Ahmed Raja, general secretary of t...
Today (March 26) is the 22nd death anniversary of freedom fighter commander Alhaj Md Moazzem Hoson, former MP of Patuakhali 4 seat and DDC (District Development Coordinator). On this occasion, the deceased's family has organized Qoran khani, Milad Mahfil and special prayer in every m...
A view exchange meeting titled 'Obstacles in the Protection of Bangladesh's Rivers' was held at Kalapara Press Club in Patuakhali on Saturday.Two non-governmental organisations named Amara and Water Keepers Bangladesh organised this exchange meeting.Under the chairmanship of ...
The World Water Day was celebrated on Thursday in Patuakhali's Kalapara with a demand for digging all rivers and canals, and stopping filling of ponds and arable land. The theme of this year's World Water Day was ‘Water for Peace’.Pani Jadughar, development organization Action Ai...
Five foreign ships have anchored at Payra port with coal for Payra 1320 MW power plant to normalise the electricity situation in the country and continue production.Five ships with 2 lakh 33 thousand 50 metric tonnes of coal have already crowded the inner and outer channel of Payra port on March 2.A...
After coming home with his new wife, groom Omar Ali (25) was found with his throat cut early in the Tuesday morning.The villagers saw his bloodied body with his throat cut from the pepper field near his house in Taherpur village of Kalapara's Latachapali union. This incident has cast a shadow of...
A mother vessel MV Meghna Venus of Meghna Group carrying 54 thousand 400 mts of clinker anchored at Payra Samudra port's inner jetty. Unloading of clinker lighters from the mother vessel coming from Vietnam began on Monday.Mother vessel MV Jin Zhu Xiang 88 from Singapore anchored at the same por...
The hanging body of an old woman was recovered from Telgachhiya Village in Mithaganj Union of Kalapara Upazila under Patuakhali district on Sunday. The incident occurred on Saturday night.The deceased was identified as Aklima Begum, 60, a mother of four children. She is the wife of late Anowar...
Thousands of people learned how to protect life and property from natural calamities in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali district. On Monday afternoon, the villagers saw this survival strategy during the disaster awareness field exercise workshop at Hajipur Secondary School ground in Nilganj, which is...
In Kalapara Upazila of Patuakhali, the farmers held a human chain and held a meeting to protect the crops of about 3000 acres of land from salt water in 11 villages.At 11 am on Sunday morning, several hundreds of people gathered at Shahid Surendra Mohan Chowdhuri road in Kalapara town to protect the...
Even last year, I paid 800 taka for Aman to cut paddy, but even then, I did not find anyone to cut the paddy. There is no problem this time. I can do rice cutting very easily with this modern rice cutting machine. This is how farmer Manoranjan Howladar of Amirabad village of Nilganj union of Kalapar...
Three unions of Patuakhali's Kalapara are being flooded heavily by the tidal water of Ravanabad River. The people of 10 villages have already become waterlogged due to the water entering the river through the broken embankment. Vast Aman crop fields were submerged due to the instant flood. In th...
A mother dolphin has been found floating in a net on Kuakata beach. The seven-and-a-half-foot-long dolphin first floated at the mouth of three rivers in Kuakata's Lemburchar on Sunday morning.Witnesses said the dolphin was wrapped in a net and had a front wing cut off. The dolphin came asho...
Dreams have been fulfilled of 120 destitute families in Kalapara of Patuakhali. After the Prime Minister inaugurated the handover event from Ganabhaban on Tuesday, the Upazila administration handed over the documents and keys of the Prime Minister's gift house to the family on the occasion of Mu...
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