23-year-old Shuvo had gone to Lebanon nearly three years ago, hoping to lift his family out of poverty

Every October, men from villages on the edge of the Sundarbans leave for the brickfields, driven out as much by the forest's shrinking rules as by the pull of wages. Left behind, women like Nirmola and Shushila don't simply wait—they run the household, manage money sent home by bKash, and reorganise daily life until April brings the men back. This is the untold half of the Sundarbans migration story.

At least half of Dhaka’s buildings could collapse in a major quake. Experts have long stressed the need to strictly enforce the national building code, penalising violations in design and construction quality.

The local administration in Satkhira sends 170 brick field workers, who had arrived from Narsingdi, on institutional quarantine as part of measures to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Unidentified criminals have gunned down two top local leaders of Awami League in Bandarban and Satkhira.

BNP Candidate for Satkhira-4 (Shyamnagar and Kaliganj) constituency and Jamaat leader GM Nazrul Islam is arrested in connection with a case filed over plotting subversive acts.

A tenth grader is beaten dead in Satkhira town.

Workers of an ice-ream factory allegedly push an ice-cream into the rectum of a minor boy at Dangipara in Satkhira town.

A girl in Satkhira is discovered suffering symptoms similar to the 'tree-man disease', in which the skin deteriorates to give way to debilitating growths akin to the bark of a tree.

Snake culling spree continues in Bangladesh as 202 more have been killed in the districts of Satkhira and Rajshahi – many of them hatchlings recently born.

A second-grader girl is allegedly raped in Tala upazila of Satkhira.

Police claims detention of 10 suspected militants on the sixth day of the nationwide crackdown on militancy.

Police have detained 2,132 people including 48 militants throughout the country as part of their week-long special crackdown on militants.

One man was killed and two others injured during “gunfights” with police in Narail, Jessore and Satkhira districts early yesterday.

An alleged outlaw was killed in a "gunfight" with police in the district's Tala upazila early yesterday.

On the first day of the nationwide police crackdown on militants, two Jamaat-e-Islami activists and 48 criminals were arrested from Satkhira and Natore in separate drives.

An alleged member of outlawed Purba Bangla Communist Party was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with law enforcers in Tala upazila of Satkhira.

It will be fair to say that Bangladesh cricket has not seen the likes of Mustafizur Rahman in its short history. It will be a little more contentious to say that the world has not seen a bowler like him in recent times.

High Court issues a ruling seeking explanation as to why a farmer of Satkhira will not be compensated for suffering jail for 13 years after acquittal.

A young man is stabbed to death and two others injured in Basantapur area of Kalaroa upazilla of Satkhira.