The 1,320 MW coal-fired Payra power plant in Patuakhali district's Kalapara upazila is ready to operate at full blast.

Officials said the second unit of the p...

Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited has inaugurated its Bauphal sub-branch at Hospital road area in Patuakhali sadar.

Md. Aminur Rahman, executive vice president and head of Barisal Zone of th...

Super cyclone ‘Amphan’ lying over northwest bay and adjoining west-central bay at midnight is likely to cross West Bengal and Bangladesh coast on Wednesday afternoon or evening, the Met...

A 65-year-old man suffering from fever, cough and breathing complication died at Patuakhali 250-bed Hospital on Tuesday morning.
 
Mohammad Abdul Matin, director of the hospital,...

Local administration on Sunday put the district under lockdown to prevent the transmission of coronavirus or COVID-19.

Deputy Commissioner Md Motiul Islam Chowdhury announced the decision...

Two children drowned in a river while taking bath at Boloikathi village in Sadar upazila on Monday.

The deceased were identified as Mim, 8, daughter of Afzal Gharami and Arafat, 10, son o...

The countless rivers crisscrossing the landscape of Bangladesh are said to be its lifeblood, and almost every human settlement in this low-lying delta since ancient times has taken hold and grown a...

Patuakhali, Sept 18 (UNB) – Two people were killed when a motorbike skidded off the road on Patuakhali-Kuakata Highway at Basak Bazar in Sadar upazila on Wednesday.

The deceased wer...

Patuakhali, Aug 10 (UNB) – A suspected leader of an inter-district robber gang was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police at Ballavpur in Sadar upazila early Saturday.

The d...