Sakib Ahmed

Every morning, after getting out of bed, Siyam Nazmul, a residential student at Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam Hall at Jahangirnagar University, steps onto the veranda of his room to breathe in the day’s first light.

A crumbling mansion rises unexpectedly along the main road of Kolakopa Union in Nawabganj, Dhaka, its grand pillars still holding their ground against time.

A worrying rise in retaliatory killings of fishing cats across Bangladesh, driven largely by conflict with local communities who blame the animal for losses to poultry and pond fish, is gradually pushing the species to the brink.

On misty winter mornings, the lakes and wetlands of Jahangirnagar University once came alive in a breathtaking rhythm of wings and water.

After last year’s mass uprising, students of Jahangirnagar University’s law department staged a series of protests demanding the resignation of Associate Professor Tapos Kumar Das and Suprovat Paul, accusing them of physical and mental torture and harassment.

JU currently records only 70 butterfly species while it recorded 110 in 2013

For the very first time in the history of Jahangirnagar University, known as a den of progressive thoughts, Islami Chhatra Shibir has swept the central student union polls, winning 20 of the 25 posts.

More than a day after voting ended in the long-awaited Jahangirnagar University Central Students’ Union election, the authorities were still struggling to complete the vote count, triggering mounting anger and suspicion.