Rohingya camps: Violence rears its head after a year of relative calm
7 September 2026
After a year of decline, violence between armed groups in the Rohingya camps has risen.
7 September 2026
Fraud network scatters after Cox’s Bazar raid
7 September 2026
Around 250-300 Chinese and Taiwanese nationals, reportedly part of an online financial fraud network, have gone on the run after six of their cohorts were arrested from two hotels in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday night.
7 September 2026
Island Girl: A broken dream
6 September 2026
A New Zealand family spent more than two years building a wooden catamaran in Cox’s Bazar. Their dream ended when the catamaran broke apart and their 16-year-old son was lost at sea
6 September 2026
Marine fish catch slumps amid overfishing, habitat loss
6 September 2026
Years of overfishing, destructive fishing practices and damage to marine habitats are depleting Bangladesh’s fish stocks, with catches of hilsa and other marine species falling sharply.
6 September 2026
Told surfing was not for girls, Fatema now heads to Asian Games for Bangladesh
3 September 2026
The 17-year-old Cox’s Bazar surfer will compete in Japan as surfing makes its Asian Games debut, alongside men’s representative Abdul Mannan
3 September 2026
‘We want to go home’
26 August 2026
“I want to be a doctor,” said 16-year-old Syed Kasim, a class six student living in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar.
26 August 2026
Sentenced to die for another man’s crime
15 August 2026
What began as a case of identity fraud nearly sent the wrong man to the gallows.
15 August 2026
Once a forest now a landscape of loss
15 August 2026
About two and a half kilometres southeast of Dulahazara Bazar in Cox’s Bazar’s Chakaria upazila, along a winding rural road, lies Paglir Bil Road.
15 August 2026
Rohingyas holding their breath
Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar camps fear their homes may be destroyed if the Cyclone Mocha develops into a severe one and hits the coast.
14 May 2023
Winds of change approaching
“Are you talking about those big pankhas?” auto-rickshaw driver Osman Ali responded when this reporter asked to take him to the wind power plant in Khurushkul area of Cox’s Bazar.
19 April 2023
CHT peace accord: 25 years on, full implementation still elusive
It has been 25 years since the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord was signed, but rights activists and leaders of the party that signed it with the government say key clauses of the agreement still remain unimplemented.
2 December 2022
Demarcation there, not the river
If you go to Telghat of south Keraniganj, you will see a road next to the Buriganga river. Beside it, there are some buildings, makeshift shops and a piece of land filled with garbage and earth.
24 September 2022
This ... is Buriganga
If you walk by Buriganga’s bank from Jinjira ferry ghat to Keraniganj, you will see people dumping household garbage into the river that’s considered to be the lifeline of Dhaka.
18 September 2022
How to kill a canal
Do you know how much garbage it takes to kill a 13-kilometre-long flowing canal?
15 September 2022
‘Please don’t write about us, we still have to live here’
“It was a whimsical attack. The situation is normal now. Everyone lives here in a friendly atmosphere and harmony,” said seniors of the Hindu community at Sahapara village of Narail district.
28 July 2022
Farmers grow export quality vegetables but don’t get buyers
Farmers in Shahbajpur village of Jashore sadar upazila are overjoyed to be producing export quality vegetables but they are disappointed that the produce is selling at home instead of abroad at the same time.
4 July 2022
Teknaf, Ukhia show the way
For shopkeepers in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhia, the day starts with rigorous cleaning. As part of the process, they put a pair of buckets -- one green and the other blue -- in front of their shops.
16 April 2022
The waste keeps piling up
Business and recreation go hand-in-hand in Cox’s Bazar. But amidst all the usual frenzy, the tourist town fights a silent battle every day -- to make its waste management work.
16 April 2022
This Ramadan, take a loss to save humanity
With the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, prices of essential commodities see a hiking trend -- a common phenomenon in the country for quite some years now.
3 April 2022
Short-term fix, long-term trouble?
On one hand, it’s good news that the government has taken up a river excavation project at Hari and Teka rivers to recede water from the waterlogged Bhabadah region.
24 January 2022
Half a decade under water
Around 120 villages in the Bhabadah region in Jashore and Khulna are still under water, even as winter marches.
15 January 2022
Cheating thru’ 36 cheques
A racket that includes officials tampered with at least 36 cheques and stole almost Tk 7 crore from a bank account of Jashore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education in the last five years, an investigation found.
15 November 2021
Hajiganj mayhem began with Facebook post like previous incidents of communal violence
Like previous incidents of communal violence unleashed on minority communities, a post making the rounds on Facebook was what triggered the October 13 attacks in Chandpur’s Hajiganj upazila during Durga Puja celebrations.
19 October 2021
Sherpur Gang Rape: Family under pressure to withdraw case
After raping both a mother and her daughter in Sherpur’s Nalitabari on Sunday, the perpetrators are now threatening the victim family for filing a case.
12 October 2021
80 villages inundated in Bhabadah
Around 80 villages have been flooded in at least six upazilas of Jashore and Khulna districts due to incessant rain last month.
2 October 2021
Hilsa prices soar while export cheap
Hilsa has become pricier since export of the national fish to India commenced last week.
25 September 2021
From cultural activists to Covid volunteers
When the Covid-19 pandemic began, some cultural activists could not bear the thought of staying back home as everyone else suffered.
20 September 2021
A bridge too low
An under-construction bridge on the Kapotaksha river in Jashore has been built with low vertical clearance, which will obstruct the movement of medium-size vessels, says a BIWTA official.
8 September 2021