Monjurul Haque

The number of animals at Gazipur Safari Park has dropped sharply in recent years amid allegations of mismanagement, negligence, and theft.

Despite repeated deadly fire incidents, the government has yet to relocate hazardous chemical warehouses from Dhaka’s residential areas to designated industrial zones in Munshiganj.

A radical change has transformed the lives of people in Rathura, Sankatpur, Demra, Fetalia and Nashera villages of Gazipur’s Kaliganj upazila.

25 have no lids in 4km areas

Families were seen sitting in the field in front of the park, while shopkeepers set up stalls selling food and other items outside the entrance. Horse-drawn carriages and other entertainment options were also available near the gate

Abdul Aziz once harvested rice in abundance from his fields next to Labondaho, once a picturesque river located in Indrapur, Gazipur’s Sreepur. Today, he stands on cracked earth, nursing losses and lamenting poisoned waters.

Cotton bundles are purchased from abroad to make yarn at spinning mills

The last time Shanto and Suman saw their mother, she was shivering in the cold, wrapped in a tattered blanket that barely covered her frail frame

Fifty-year-old Arati Rani stood with others in despair at the entrance to Tetultala Colony, which was home to 24 families of laid-off workers of Beximco Group factories in Gazipur.

Shuttered tea-stalls, closed restaurants, vacant parking spaces, and a deserted entrance—once abuzz with tourists, the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Safari Park in Gazipur, the second largest of its kind in the country, has seen no crowd for around two months.

Just outside Dhaka, amid the serenity of Bakhtarpur village under Gazipur’s Kaliganj upazila lies in his eternal rest one of the most notable historic figures of Bengal -- Isa Khan

Kamal Mia, a farmer in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila, went to a local market recently to sell a maund of paddy to buy meat and other essentials as he was expecting guests.

Lack of monitoring, awareness deprives Gazipur farmers of fair price

Starting every morning, Kalu Hijra had spent most of her life walking from shops to doorsteps, collecting money.

Sailboats used to ride the waves of the Shitalakkhya river in the past, according to 78-year-old Abdul Gafur Sarker, but all that is visible now is kochuripana, or water hyacinth on the surface of the river

Sumon Howlader, president of the Bangladesh Poultry Association (BPA), claimed that marginal farmers have suffered losses totalling around Tk 200 crore in the past 10 days due to the effects of the heatwave.

Sanjit Babu, from Baghia village in Gazipur’s Kapasia upazila, has been running a tea stall at Narayanpur market on the bank of the Shitalakshya river for the last four years.

Prisoners, migrants, even the deceased get implicated in cases