A wake-up call for Dhaka
The series of six earthquakes that shook Myanmar yesterday, occurring along the Sagaing fault -- the country’s longest faultline -- served as a stark reminder of Dhaka’s earthquake vulnerability.
28 March 2025, 18:25 PM
China’s Brahmaputra Dam project: Experts voice concern, govt asks Beijing for info
The project will be built on the lower reaches of the Yarlung Tsangpo river, which becomes the Brahmaputra in India and the Jamuna in Bangladesh.
26 March 2025, 18:53 PM
Dhaka’s groundwater: Drying up alarmingly
Despite annual recharge every year, there is an overall declining trend in groundwater level due to over-extraction
21 March 2025, 18:48 PM
79 rivers dead or on deathbed
At least 79 of the government-listed 1,156 rivers flowing through the country have dried up or are in the process of drying up in recent times, threatening livelihoods, agriculture, and local biodiversity, a recent study has revealed.
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Our gentle giants in peril
Over the past decade, nearly half of the country’s wild elephant population has been wiped out.
2 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Teesta plan with China gains pace
Under the deal, POWERCHINA will prepare a concept paper by December and conduct a feasibility study in 2026
18 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Noakhali-Feni: Floodwaters gone months ago but sufferings linger
Nineteen-year-old Sajjad Hossain had no alternative but to start building a new thatched home for his two sisters, mother and himself since their house was swept away by a flood four months ago in Pashchim Aloka village, situated on the banks of Muhuri river in Feni’s Parshuram upazila.
13 January 2025, 18:13 PM
Dhaka needs to urgently prepare for a major quake
Having experienced two earthquakes in the span of a single week, an obvious question looms – are we taking this silent threat seriously enough?
7 January 2025, 18:00 PM
World Rivers Day: Factories killing water bodies in Tongi
Only two decades ago, people bathed in the Hyderabad canal in Tongi, Gazipur.
25 September 2022, 02:00 AM
All, except farmers, profit from paddy farming
Paddy farmers in the northern districts have struggled to turn a profit for the past five years, as production costs have risen significantly but rice prices have not increased proportionally.
16 September 2022, 18:00 PM
Teesta sorrows everflowing
When Bangladesh and India were about to ink a deal on sharing the Teesta water in 2010, people living by the river in Rangpur region dreamt of better days.
5 September 2022, 02:00 AM
Joint Rivers Commission crippled by a lack of political will
The Joint Rivers Commission has not been much effective in resolving the issues of water sharing of transboundary rivers due to a lack of commitment from India and also for Bangladesh’s technical incapacity to be persuasive.
25 August 2022, 02:30 AM
Poor, middle class: Soaring rice price deepens their plight
Azmat Ali is a daily wage earner in the northern district of Lalmonirhat. Just a week ago, he bought coarse rice for Tk 44-45 a kg. But yesterday he found the price of the staple rose to Tk 52.
20 August 2022, 02:00 AM
Victimising journalists: A decades-long tradition of denying justice
Twenty-two years have come and gone since her husband was shot to death, but Selina Akhter Lucky has all but given up hope for justice for the brutal murder.
17 August 2022, 12:46 PM
Ethnic population in 2022 census: Real picture not reflected
Indigenous leaders and researchers have questioned the accuracy of ethnic population data shown in the latest census report and said the actual figure would be much higher.
9 August 2022, 02:30 AM
Farmers get a raw deal
Floods, low rainfall and then fertiliser price hike -- the woes of farmers just won’t stop. And now, they will have to bear the brunt of a sudden 42.5 percent rise in diesel cost, which is likely to make them spend an additional Tk 4,000 in irrigation for per hectare Boro production.
8 August 2022, 02:00 AM
Waiting for the rain
After a spell of extreme heat and scanty rain in the last two consecutive months, farmers across the country were expecting favourable weather for a good harvest of rain-fed Aman paddy, which accounts for 39 percent of total grain production.
6 August 2022, 02:00 AM
Increase in fertiliser price: Farmers braced for a hard time
The government has raised the price of urea fertiliser for the first time in 11 years, burdening the farmers with an increased production cost.
1 August 2022, 20:00 PM
Floods over, not the struggles
It has been around a month since flood waters began receding across Sylhet division.
23 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Nature’s revenge
For around a month now, all four districts in the Sylhet division have been enduring floods with the water receding slowly from many areas and thousands left to suffer.
15 July 2022, 18:00 PM
A series of delayed justice
Although attacks on freethinkers and bloggers, and their murders by suspected Islamic militants have decreased significantly due to multiple anti-militant crackdowns, none of the families of those killed has gotten complete justice yet.
28 June 2022, 20:49 PM
More rains may prolong sufferings for another week
Sufferings of the people in Sylhet division is not going to end soon as rivers will continue to swell in the next three days before starting to recede. So, the flood situation in the region will prevail for at least seven more days, meteorologists said.
17 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Flood in Sylhet may prevail at least a week, weather experts say
Sufferings of people living in Sylhet division is not going to end soon as the water level will continue to rise for next three days and the flood situation will prevail at least for seven days, according to weathermen.
17 June 2022, 12:30 PM
Sitakunda: Living in a death trap
Unplanned industrialisation in Sitakunda without proper safety measures has made local people live in constant fear especially after the BM container depot disaster.
10 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Food, Agriculture: A lot of hype, little promised
Amid the Russia-Ukraine war and global food price hike, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal placed emphasis on boosting food production to ensure food security in the country.
9 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Shut errant tanneries now
A parliamentary body yesterday expressed resentment over the industries ministry’s “deliberate delay” in shutting down the tanners inside the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate,which are severely polluting the Dhaleshwari river.
2 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Rice pricier even in peak Boro season
The prices of rice rose by Tk 8-10 per kg over the last two weeks even though it is the harvesting season and there is ample supply of paddy.
1 June 2022, 02:30 AM
‘Sustainable resilience need of the hour’
With a call to generate and allocate necessary global funding for LDCs (Least Developed Countries)faced with natural disasters, the seventh Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) 2022 ended yesterday in Bali, Indonesia.
27 May 2022, 18:00 PM