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Resort boom ravages forests on Sonadia Island

A spree of resort construction on Sonadia Island under Moheshkhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar is causing severe damage to forestland and wildlife.
3 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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Planning a trip to St Martin’s Island? Here’s how to get the travel pass

Only 2,000 visitors allowed per day as island reopens for two months
2 December 2025, 06:47 AM
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Saint Martin’s Island / Tourist season begins with 1,174 visitors on first day

The tourist season in St Martin’s Island began yesterday with three cruise ships carrying 1,174 passengers from Cox’s Bazar’s Nuniachhara BIWTA jetty to the coral island.
1 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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Saint Martin’s Island / Bookings for overnight stay remain thin

Despite the government’s decision to allow overnight stays on Saint Martin’s Island from December, cruise ship operators and resort owners say bookings have been far below expectations for the first half of the month.
26 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Hill market turns popular in Cox’s Bazar

Near the Burmese School in Cox’s Bazar town, several vendors from indigenous communities, most of them women, were seen on both sides of the road in a simple, modest market setup.
23 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Jowari in Cox’s Bazar: 5 years on, bridge still unfinished

An unfinished bridge over the nine-kilometre Jowari Canal has left nearly 50,000 residents of Varuakhali union in Cox’s Bazar Sadar struggling to cross the area for almost five years.
20 November 2025, 21:33 PM
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Groundwater depleting fast in Cox’s Bazar

Groundwater levels are depleting rapidly across almost all upazilas in Cox’s Bazar, raising fears of an acute water crisis in the near future.
16 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Arakan Army threat grows along the border

A Border Guard Bangladesh soldier died after being injured in a landmine explosion, allegedly planted by the Arakan Army along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border, the latest in a series of incidents that have endangered security personnel and civilians.
1 November 2025, 18:17 PM
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ALTERNATIVE IS THERE

Although there is sufficient government land on both sides of the historical Jessore Road for its expansion, the local authorities seem to be hell-bent on doing the expansion by felling more than 2,300 trees, a several hundred of them nearly two centuries old.
18 January 2018, 18:00 PM
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Nature Quest: Pankouri's place

Seeing the little cormorants flying in the sky in their thousands and feeding their chicks in their little nests on treetops can be a
19 October 2017, 18:00 PM
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Illegal, but who cares?

They consider Tata engines grossly underrated. If a “Tata human haulier” is capable of carrying double the passenger-load than what they usually do, then why not turn them into minibuses? All it needs is a little improvisation; ingenious indeed! While not lawful, this is an aspect that hardly matters as far as Dhaka streets and their diverse array of public transports are concerned.
5 August 2017, 18:00 PM
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Water Monitor: Struggling to survive

Keeping its head above the water, a water monitor, locally known as gui shap, swam to the bank of Khashnagar Dighi (lake) near the
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Nature Quest: Red crabs fast disappearing

Apart from the beautiful sandy beach that makes Kuakata one of the top tourist destinations, it has many other things to offer.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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MONGOL SHOBHAJATRA

The first light of Mongol Shobhajatra, the colourful procession at the dawn of Pahela Baishakh, illuminated Jessore in 1985. Charupite
13 April 2016, 18:00 PM
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Dhaka city lane illegally made off-limits to vehicles

A 90-yard stretch of a road, in the capital's Shyamoli, has been illegally made off-limits to all types of vehicle.
8 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Child gives hope to HIV positive parents

The boy looks as healthy, energetic and cheerful as most children at 7. But before he was born, his mother kept her fingers crossed that her HIV would not pass on to the child.
21 March 2016, 18:00 PM

'Underage driver was out on a joyride'

The speeding car at which Uttara police shot live rounds during a chase on Monday afternoon was being driven by an underage boy.
17 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Work likely to start by Dec

Construction of the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery is expected to begin by December, aiming to produce skilled healthcare providers, including surgeons, and provide state of the art facilities and proper treatment to around six lakh patients a year.
29 October 2015, 18:00 PM
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Baby Suraiya now safe in mother's arms

What could be more comforting for Nazma Khatun than being finally reunited with her baby girl Suraiya who was separated from her at birth?
16 August 2015, 18:00 PM
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Welcome to the cruel world

The atrocity this unborn baby faced beats wartime savagery. Before she was born, one bullet pierced her right shoulder and another critically injured her right eye, as if to tell her that even a mother's womb is no longer a safe place for the unborn.
27 July 2015, 18:00 PM
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