Mostafa Yousuf

The cost of digging a new canal in Chittagong city has quadrupled in three years due to delay in getting the funds in full for the project deemed critical for alleviating the city's waterlogging problem.

Lawsuits, allegations of irregularities and question paper leaks have marred recruitment in the eastern zone of Bangladesh Railway, resulting in around 35 percent posts being left vacant for years.

Fish egg collection from the Halda river, the lone source of natural carp breeding in South Asia, has reached a 10-year high this year.

When an elephant calf fell down from a 150 feet high hill on March 24, at Khaleque'r Ghona of Sharafbhata union under Rangunia upazila, other elephants in its herd frantically tried to pull it back up and take it along with them.

Although the numbers of parents who now forego superstitions and instead go to doctors and institutions to avail treatment and

Trauma and inanition (exhaustion caused by a lack of nourishment) due to injuries rendered by engine-run boats, speedboats or dredgers in the Halda river accelerated the deaths of at least 18 dolphins (Platanista Gangetica).

It was around two in the afternoon. Hasan Mohammed, a student of a private university, sat in front of a desk in his room to

In early August last year, Sohrab Hossain, a resident of Chittagong, bought a bottle of cough syrup for Tk 80 from a local retailer.

The Chittagong City Corporation took Tk 10,000 each from 33 families of a landslide-prone slum five years ago promising to relocate them to an apartment building. The construction of the seven-storey building was completed in 2016, but the flats have yet to be handed over to the families. Instead, the city corporation now wants to move its office to the block.

The Halda River, which meanders through south east Bangladesh, is famous for being perhaps the only place in Southeast Asia where the pure Indian carp naturally occurs.

As residents of Uttar Madarsa village in Hathazari upazila settle in for the evening, a group of 30 vigilantes gear up to keep an eye on the Halda River to stop the indiscriminate fishing of broodfish.

For many in the port city, getting a trade licence from the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) used to be time consuming and difficult.

The long wait for power connection in the offshore upazila of Sandwip in Chittagong is finally about to end, as the initiative to connect the upazila with the national power grid by installing a submarine cable ushers in new hope for the islanders.

At least 16 dolphins (Platanista Gangetica) have been found dead in the last three months in the Halda, according to data found primarily by Halda River Research Institute.

The quality of medical care in the port city is getting a bad name in recent times, leading to immense patient sufferings. And the diagnostic centres are partly to blame.

How would a teacher feel, if the students he spent years teaching, grooming and even raising, returned one day to set his home on fire?

The port city's unique combination of sea, river and hills is going to lose one of the features due to the greed of an influential quarter.

The Halda river, the lone source of natural carp breeding in South Asia, lost 26 of its fish species in the past seven years because of

Rohingya settlements at one of the country's reserve forests have blocked the migration path of the Asian elephants, resulting in human-elephant conflicts.

Every dawn, Hamida's two-year-old girl wakes up and cries, hearing the sound of Myanmar army's heavy vehicles. She grabs her mother