17 highly harmful pesticides widely used across country
Experts said several of these pesticides are linked to cancer and long-term health effects
25 November 2025, 18:17 PM
Experts flag growing underground stress
Three earthquakes hit near Dhaka in just 32 hours, raising concern as seismologists warn they could be foreshocks of a much stronger one.
22 November 2025, 18:17 PM
Climate finance fuels ‘debt trap’
From 2002 to 2023, Bangladesh secured only $1.41 billion in adaptation funds, less than 1 percent of its projected needs.
10 November 2025, 18:10 PM
Barind’s rice bowl is running dry
In Rajshahi region, erratic monsoons and rising heat are devastating crops and threatening farmers' futures. Pinaki Roy reports from the ground.
9 November 2025, 18:25 PM
Bangladesh saw 2.25 lakh deaths from air pollution in 2022: Lancet report
Over 30,000 deaths directly attributed to fossil fuels
29 October 2025, 14:40 PM
Govt project to save 4 rivers around Dhaka falters
Even 16 years after HC directive to restore Dhaka’s four rivers to their original state, the govt has yet to complete even half of the work
24 October 2025, 18:20 PM
Dhaka air turns unhealthy even before dry season
With the dry season approaching, Dhaka city’s air quality has once again slipped to an unhealthy level, underscoring the inadequacy of the limited measures taken by the authorities to curb air pollution.
21 October 2025, 18:07 PM
Eastern coast sinking faster as sea level rises
Bangladesh’s eastern coast, a key zone for development activities, is sinking faster than the central and western coasts amid rising sea levels, posing threats to infrastructure, vast swathes of farmland and the livelihoods of millions of people, warns a new study.
3 October 2025, 18:25 PM
A trip through Indian part of Sundarbans
Things did not work as per the plan from the very beginning. The bad news came even before we flew to Kolkata.
3 April 2015, 18:00 PM
Tender floated amid growing concern
Tender has been floated for constructing the 1,320 megawatt Rampal plant near the Sundarbans amid concerns from the Unesco and
27 March 2015, 18:00 PM
HARDLY ANYTHING SAFE TO EAT
Over 10 thousand samples of more than 50 different food items were tested at the Institute of Public Health in 2012-13. About 60 percent of the samples were found adulterated or contaminated
18 September 2014, 18:00 PM
ILLEGAL, HARMFUL
The importers of ripening agents dupe the government by saying they are only importing the PGRs. They get away with this, as the government has no mechanism in place to monitor what is being imported and marketed, said industry insiders.
18 September 2014, 18:00 PM
Sincerity the answer
The government should recover and excavate the encroached land and turn those into parts of the rivers again, they added.
4 June 2009, 18:00 PM
Grabbers flex court muscles
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) or the district administration could not take legal action against the encroachers following the status quo.
30 May 2009, 18:00 PM
River authorities guilty too
However, recent visits to the embankment revealed that filling up of the river continues on both sides of the BIWTA office.
29 May 2009, 18:00 PM
Bureaucrats go to Turag
Moreover, the cadre officials have also influenced an unplanned bridge, now under construction, over the Turag just to connect their housing project to the Tongi-Ashulia bypass.
28 May 2009, 18:00 PM
Caught in the act
Everything is clearly visible on the other bank as the once mighty Turag, popularly knows as Kohor Daria [big river], has been reduced to hardly 50 feet in width here.
27 May 2009, 18:00 PM
Grabbing easy, freeing tough
A lush green lawn and a well-planned pond increase the beauty of the building, which in fact choked the river here.
26 May 2009, 18:00 PM
River-filling easier now
The sand and soil carrying cargo boats, locally known as 'bolget', are the main transports operating on these river routes.
25 May 2009, 18:00 PM
Turag inherited!
Hazrat Mukhter was born and brought up in Kamarpara village by the now-reduced Turag. He has many memories about the river.
24 May 2009, 18:00 PM
Time for 'river view' university
Amid encroachment by housing estates, private universities and refuelling stations, the tiny Turag, the major flood flow system of the capital from north to south, is being choked and reduced every day.
23 May 2009, 18:00 PM
Plots in Turag up for sale
The grabber has raised the plinth about 10 feet above the water level which easily draws attention.
22 May 2009, 18:00 PM
Turag almost grabbed
Although the AL pledged before the national elections to bring "changes in political culture and prevailing ill practices", no change is apparent in the culture of river grabbing.
20 May 2009, 18:00 PM
Sidr was one of the fiercest cyclones
Sidr was considered as fierce a cyclone as the ones that hit the country in 1970 and 1991 killing 5 lakh and 1.4 lakh people respectively
16 November 2007, 18:00 PM