In the river, it looks like a wide desert. This stretch of white sand along the Dharla river in Lalmonirhat cannot be described as devoid of people. Because this char has been the home for a couple in their sixties for the past one and half years. They are the only people who live on this char.

Two canals in Cox’s Bazar have been leased out to Jubo League leaders for sand mining. And now the canals along with several forests, water bodies, and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park Cox's Bazar is now at an existential threat due to rampant and possibly illegal sand mining.

Falguni Datta Roy, a resident of Kolkata, has his ancestral home in Kishoreganj, which is now in Bangladesh. The 80 years of national separation failed to uproot him from his ancestry as he has been an avid collector of souvenirs and historical documents, paper cuttings, photographs, etc of Bangladesh and the Liberation War.

Dhaka’s air is one of the most toxics in the world; pitch-black polluted water runs through its rivers, canals; tap water contains hazardous chemicals and cholera pathogens; the traffic here are unbearable, the roads are death traps -- Dhaka has now become an unlivable city stuffed with over 2.2 crore people.

Going abroad in hope of a better life, they become subject to medieval torture. A gang of criminals kidnap migrant workers luring them with promises of better wages.

Solar power plant is being built on farmlands at Bhabanipur village in Pabna. A private organisation called Paramount Holdings has taken up the project. As a result, thousands of farmers are in the fear of losing their livelihood.

The World Bank is offering $358 million or almost Tk 3,000 crore to make the roads safer. Primarily the two highways from Gazipur to Elenga - NH4 and from Natore to Nawabganj - NH6 will be getting the funding to ensure safety. The World Bank is hoping that this will decrease road accident related deaths by 30%. How exactly will the World Bank’s Tk 3,000 crore be spent?

Toxic pollution from factories has turned the rivers near Savar - Bongshi, Turag, and Dhaleshwari - uninhabitable for fish and, as a result, unreliable for fishermen's livelihood.

Every day, almost 1,200 patients with diarrhoea and cholera symptoms are admitted to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). Around 23% of them were positively identified for cholera pathogens.

In an exceptional initiative, different architectural designs for a building were exhibited on the construction site. Institute of Architects Bangladesh organised this exhibition for the re-building project of Golpahar Mohashoshan Kali Temple in Chattogram. The exhibition was open to the public to see and give their feedback about the designs.

Fagua is a festival of colours, dance and poetry. This festival of tea workers in the Bangla month Falgun paints the tea gardens of Moulvibazar district in vivid colours. People from different walks of life join in to celebrate this festival.

Mongla Export Processing Zone or in short Mongla EPZ was established in 2001 in a hope to attract new investments from all around the world and subsequently emancipate the south-western Bangladesh from economic negligence.

This country needs 2.75 million litres of water per day, and almost 80% of this comes from underground reservoirs. And as the country gets more and more industrialised, urbanised, and populated, the underground water level drops more rapidly than ever before.

Tobacco is sold at the altar of the Shaheed Minar of a Lalmonirhat school during the tobacco season every year. When February 21 is celebrated as International Mother Language day, tobacco haat sits at the altar of Shaheed Minar set up at Durakati Government Primary School. It’s very shocking that the local administration has leased the school grounds for such a market. Tobacco sellers and buyers walk on the Shaheed Minar wearing shoes during the haat.

The first Bangladesh Airlines flight between Dhaka and Toronto has taken off. Two ways non-stop 16-17 hour flights will cost between 1 lakh 20 thousand and 2 lakh 68 thousand taka. Which is more expensive than other airlines.

Prices of groceries are going up at an exponential rate. Low and middle-income people are suffering the most. We went on Dhaka streets to know how they’re struggling to cope up with the recent price hike. Watch today’s episode of Public Speaks to find out what the people had to say about the recent price hike of the daily essentials.

Kolkata, the 332 year-old city, is situated on the banks of river Ganga. It was the birthplace of modern Bangla culture. As Job Charnock, a British East India Company administrator, founded Kolkata in a remote village, it is said to become the first capital of British India. What does history say about it?

The new online birth registration programme is ongoing. This time the citizens are to get new 17-digit registration numbers instead of the old 16-digit ones.

Midnight, March 25, 1971, Rajarbagh Police Lines was surrounded by Pakistani armed forces with heavy weaponry, military vehicles and tanks and a few hundred Bengali police with 303 calibre rifles inside the police lines grounds.

Everyone's life has been made a lot simpler thanks to mobile banking. In hindsight, the number of scams involving mobile banking customers is also on the rise.