Located only 12 kilometres off the Barisal city, Durga Sagar is the largest pond in the southwestern region of the country. In 1780, Raja Shib Narayan Rai dug a 46-acre massive pond as a symbol of ...

Various temple committees in Barisal have allocated a portion of their expenses from celebrating Durga Puja to flood victims in Feni and Comilla. Many have decided to set up a fund for the flood ...

A few days back, in a Dhaka Tribune news article about the latest incident of Durga idol being demolished in Barisal, a man commented: “The criminals are the idolaters, not the ones who vandalized it.

Sharadiya Durga Puja, the largest Hindu festival in ... Several arrests have been made, and police officials in Barisal, Pabna and Kishoreganj have been removed following vandalism incidents.