A flood is a familiar drill for Anwar Hossain. He can't keep track of how many times he has dismantled and moved his house. Of the millions who live on the riverine islands, or chars, in the Jamuna, no one lives in one place for more than a few years.

August 26, 2017. The morning started like any other at Shikderpara village in Maungdaw town. He was preparing to visit his paddy fields where around 400 maunds of rice were almost ready to be harvested next month.

Failure of flood embankments and absence of alternative solutions are leading Bangladesh to a watery grave.

Statistics related to floods and cyclones display a dramatic increase in intensity in the last three decades in Bangladesh and experts fear that the trend is likely to get worse.

Leather factories polluting again

The number of students pursuing science is decreasing at an alarming rate

With no democratic student governments in private universities, what recourse do students really have?

With greater independence in work and better pay, many Bangladeshi workers are turning to freelancing in the online marketplace.

Human trafficking in Bangladesh has taken a turn for the worse

It is a long and difficult struggle for persons with intellectual, hearing and speech disabilities

According to the latest figures released by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS), around two million youths of working age are unemployed. Young university graduates are struggling the most to secure employment.

Scientists find invincible bacteria resistant to all antibiotics in city locations

As the landslides wreaked havoc over Chittagong division in the last two weeks, there was one thing that everyone was at a consensus about – this was a man-made disaster.

Landslides in Rangamati is a wake-up call for the country.

The number of cases filed under section 57 of the ICT Act seems to be on the rise. This year has already seen more than 260 cases.

The indigenous people of Longadu flee to remote jungles escaping violent rioting.

The critics of Rampal include environmentalists, scientists and experts. Yet, the defence for the power plant has remained the same. But, under scrutiny, how do these claims, meant to relieve us of our fears about the potential risks of the power plant, hold?

In April, a tender appeared on the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) website inviting constructors to propose a price to build two sets of three six-storied residential buildings at Ganaktuli City Colony, Hazaribagh.

More than 1.4 million* students of Bangladesh study in an education system that has historically kept itself isolated from the rest of the world.

The people set afloat by the flash floods of the haor areas are not blaming their luck—or some supreme being. The only omnipotent force they are naming is far nearer, in the Sylhet metropolis and goes by the name of the Water Development Board.