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
Safari park at Lathitila forest for whom?
Defying repeated calls by the nature-concerned people, the government has passed a project to build a Safari Park in Lathitila reserved forest raising the prospect of destroying one of our last remaining evergreen forests
11 November 2023, 11:58 AM
Heatwave In Bangladesh: Older people bear the brunt
Around 1,430 people, aged 65 and up, have died between 2017 and 2021 from heat-related causes, which have accelerated due to climate change, said a study revealed yesterday.
18 October 2023, 18:00 PM
World Rivers Day: 77 rivers in grip of greedy sand traders
Defying the law, locally influential people are illegally extracting sand from many sites of different rivers and seashores across the country, affecting biodiversity and upsetting ecosystems in the country’s waters.
23 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Erosion taking toll on millions
Standing near the eroded edge of the mythical river in Matikata village of Tangail, 90-year-old Hashem Ali Munshi says the bank of the Jamuna is as shifting as ever. His vacant eyes belie the irrevocable damage the river has done to him.
11 August 2023, 18:00 PM
Ban on single-use plastic: No visible step to enforce HC order
Three and a half years into the High Court order to ban single-use plastic products in the coastal districts, there has been no visible progress towards implementation.
6 June 2023, 01:30 AM
‘Subsidy benefits don’t reach us’
The government has spent more than Tk 28,000 crore as farm subsidies in the last two fiscal years. However, marginal farmers claim that they get very little benefits out of that.
1 June 2023, 18:00 PM
Fair share? Teesta to get even drier in Bangladesh
West Bengal moves to divert more water from the river
15 March 2023, 01:20 AM
River pollution: It’s now all over the country
According to a new study, at least 56 rivers flowing through different parts of the country are suffering from extreme pollution during the lean period -- when natural flows of rivers are at their lowest
14 March 2023, 02:30 AM
A good initiative falls short of goal
A Tk 3,020 crore government project to popularise cultivation on big plots of land with the help of modern agricultural tools has seen little success in the last two years.
11 February 2023, 01:00 AM
9.4m displaced in seven years
At least 1,053 people were killed and 9.4 million more displaced internally in different climate-related disasters in 58 districts in seven years from 2014, says a recent study.
9 February 2023, 01:20 AM
Blogging in Bangladesh: Caught between a rock and a hard place
"On one hand, there was a fear of being the target of machete attacks while there were laws like the ICT Act. We were sandwiched in between.
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31 January 2023, 09:20 AM
Farmers come to our rescue, yet again
When Abdul Haque woke up at dawn yesterday, not even the bone-chilling cold or the fog could stop him from getting out onto the field.
1 January 2023, 01:00 AM
Choking the lifeblood of democracy
"The only security of all is in a free press," Thomas Jefferson, famous American statesman and the country’s third president once said.
30 November 2022, 20:32 PM
Free speech the collateral damage of Covid in Bangladesh
When Covid-19 began to spread at an exponential rate across countries in January 2020, ministers and government officials in Bangladesh assured people that "adequate measures" were taken to prevent coronavirus from entering the country.
21 October 2022, 18:22 PM
Inflation, war eating away food gains
Bangladesh made gains in food production and ensured the availability of rice in recent years. But surging inflation, erratic weather, and the Russia-Ukraine war affected the availability of cereals and reduced low-income people’s access to food this year.
16 October 2022, 02:00 AM
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