Worn banknotes disrupt daily transactions
The country is facing growing disruption in everyday transactions as a shortage of usable small denomination...
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02 May 2026
No safety gear, waste workers face health hazards
Nipa Akter works every day amid piles of rubbish two kilometres inside the Matuail dumping zone...
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01 May 2026
Degrees without dignity
For 25-year-old Syed Siam, the decision to skip university in Bangladesh for a life in Japan...
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01 May 2026
Dhaka’s bus horror
Kanon Nehar Proma, a student at the University of Dhaka, was returning to her dormitory after...
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18 Apr 2026
Student fare discount on metro quietly rolled back
A decision to offer a 25% fare discount to students on the metro rail and long-distance...
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11 Apr 2026
Leather leaves toxic scars
On the banks of the Dhaleshwari River, about four kilometres from the BSCIC Tannery Industrial Estate...
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10 Apr 2026
Minor payment errors exploited in growing online fraud wave
A payment of just Tk1 more than required — used as a pretext — is emerging...
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07 Apr 2026
Cat and mouse game of Dhaka’s footpaths continues
Seventeen-year-old tea vendor Mahmud moved his cart into a side alley during the morning operation but...
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02 Apr 2026
Mosquito menace outpaces city action
Residents across Dhaka say they are struggling with a worsening mosquito infestation, despite assurances from city...
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31 Mar 2026
Fifty-year silence: Why humanity is yet to return to the moon
On 14 December 1972, Eugene Cernan left the last human footprint on the grey lunar soil....
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22 Mar 2026