Dhamrai’s monument of unfulfilled promise
The dream was to build a modern, specialised cancer hospital. A sprawling four-storey building. Three wide...
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10 Jul 2026
OTs exist, anaesthetists missing: Surgeries grind to a halt in upazila hospitals
Grassroots surgeries have ground to a near-total halt as a crippling shortage of anaesthetists leaves upazila...
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05 Jul 2026
World Plastic-Free Day: Plastic bags still dominate despite Bangladesh’s ban
As Bangladesh joins the rest of the world in observing World Plastic-Free Day today, millions of...
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03 Jul 2026
Weaponised rumours: Anti-drug campaigns became fronts for personal vendettas
The dangerous trend of vigilantism disguised as an anti-drug movement has escalated into violent home invasions...
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27 Jun 2026
Dhaka’s mountains of misery
The smell arrives before the sight. Then come the towering heaps of waste, the drifting smoke,...
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24 Jun 2026
Mountains of poison: Dhaka drowns in its own filth
Every day, millions of homes across Dhaka churn out seven thousand tonnes of waste officially, a...
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19 Jun 2026
Ageing in isolation: A growing social crisis in Bangladesh
A lonely death of an elderly man in Mirpur barely had time to fade from public...
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15 Jun 2026
Vigilante violence unfolds to contain Faridpur drug menace
A video circulating on Facebook shows a group of youths assaulting a middle-aged man in Brahmankanda...
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07 Jun 2026
Anarchy rises as citizens seize the law
A man was forced to stand before a crowd at a marketplace in Nabinagar, Brahmanbaria, before...
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06 Jun 2026
Trump in zoo looks depressed, debate grows over wellbeing
Questions are being raised about whether an albino white buffalo – popularly known as the “Donald...
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06 Jun 2026