The Santals who made the hills their home
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Rajshahi: The story behind Bangladesh’s cleanest city
5 September 2026
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Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute / Bringing endangered fish back from the brink
29 August 2026
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How haor women found self-reliance through duck farming
22 August 2026
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Once a forest now a landscape of loss
15 August 2026
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A campus alive with biodiversity
8 August 2026
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The plunder that never stopped
1 August 2026
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A growing herd in a shrinking forest
25 July 2026
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The price of convenience
18 July 2026
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Invisible children of recycling
11 July 2026
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The Forbidden Forest Life
“Bullets can’t hit me! I led hundreds of gunfights, but the bullets always just whizzed past me!” exclaimed a self-assured Jahangir Shikari, former robber of the Sundarbans.
7 January 2022
Desmond Tutu
“Never has a (Nobel) peace prize been so fitting,” said Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store after South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
31 December 2021
South Africa’s apartheid explained
Apartheid -- an Afrikaans-language word meaning the state of “apartness” -- became official government policy in 1948 when the conservative
31 December 2021
Tutu’s life in key dates
October, 7, 1931: He is born in the small town of Klerksdorp, west of Johannesburg, his mother a domestic worker and his father a teacher.
31 December 2021
Another piece of history demolished
Violating a High Court order, a 200-year-old building on Armenian Street in Dhaka’s Armanitola has been demolished by its present owners to make way for shops.
17 November 2020
“If you don’t have a free press, then you don’t have freedom”
What are the challenges for journalism in Bangladesh’s context and overall in the fake news/post-truth era we live in?
28 November 2019