Tourism in Cox’s Bazar gaining momentum
With temperatures around Bangladesh dropping ahead of winter, hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions around Cox’s Bazar are being crowded by visitors.
3d ago
Bodi: Yaba overlord’s reign of terror
Former Awami League MP Abdur Rahman Bodi pulled all the strings in the murky world of Cox’s Bazar. His name surfaced in at least five intelligence reports, each painting a darker picture of his involvement in yaba trade and smuggling.
5d ago
Salt farmers depressed by low prices
The cracked and barren fields around the Chowfaldandi village in Cox's Bazar suggest that the season for salt cultivation has arrived. However, disheartened by low market prices of the daily essential, very few farmers are preparing their land for that purpose..According to farmers, prices
1w ago
A sacred struggle: South Hnila Temple community calls for an end to encroachment
Tears streamed down Maw Ting’s face as she lit candles before a Buddha statue over a century old at the South Hnila Boro Buddha Temple in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar today
1w ago
Tourists welcome, but Saint Martin’s remains deserted
Saint Martin’s Island officially opened for tourism at the start of November. Yet, there is not a single holidaymaker in sight as tour operators await permission to ferry visitors between the island and the mainland.
3w ago
Harmony in hard times
In the Najirartek area of Cox’s Bazar, 14-year-old Riya Moni finds solace and happiness in the tunes of her penny whistle, a small flute-like instrument.
3w ago
Explosions in Myanmar: Cracks develop in 25 earthen houses in Teknaf village
Cracks have developed in at least 25 earthen houses in a village in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar, due to aftershocks from bomb explosions across the border, according to the villagers.
1m ago
Matarbari power plant: ACC opens probe into Tk 1,000cr graft allegation
The Anti-Corruption Commission’s Cox’s Bazar integrated office has started a probe into the allegations of embezzlement of about Tk 1,000 crore from different works of the Matarbari coal-fired power plant project.
1m ago
March 26, 2018
The corrupt feast on Jessore Road
The historic Jessore Road, immortalised in Allen Ginsberg's poem “September on Jessore Road”, is steadily losing the essence of its legacy due to a corrupt chain of unbridled tree-felling.
March 21, 2018
TREES, HILLS RAZED by ROHINGYAS
It was around eleven in the morning.
January 19, 2018
ALTERNATIVE IS THERE
Although there is sufficient government land on both sides of the historical Jessore Road for its expansion, the local authorities seem to be hell-bent on doing the expansion by felling more than 2,300 trees, a several hundred of them nearly two centuries old.
October 20, 2017
Nature Quest: Pankouri's place
Seeing the little cormorants flying in the sky in their thousands and feeding their chicks in their little nests on treetops can be a
August 6, 2017
Illegal, but who cares?
They consider Tata engines grossly underrated. If a “Tata human haulier” is capable of carrying double the passenger-load than what they usually do, then why not turn them into minibuses? All it needs is a little improvisation; ingenious indeed! While not lawful, this is an aspect that hardly matters as far as Dhaka streets and their diverse array of public transports are concerned.
April 21, 2017
Water Monitor: Struggling to survive
Keeping its head above the water, a water monitor, locally known as gui shap, swam to the bank of Khashnagar Dighi (lake) near the
March 17, 2017
Nature Quest: Red crabs fast disappearing
Apart from the beautiful sandy beach that makes Kuakata one of the top tourist destinations, it has many other things to offer.
April 14, 2016
MONGOL SHOBHAJATRA
The first light of Mongol Shobhajatra, the colourful procession at the dawn of Pahela Baishakh, illuminated Jessore in 1985. Charupite
April 9, 2016
Dhaka city lane illegally made off-limits to vehicles
A 90-yard stretch of a road, in the capital's Shyamoli, has been illegally made off-limits to all types of vehicle.
March 22, 2016
Child gives hope to HIV positive parents
The boy looks as healthy, energetic and cheerful as most children at 7. But before he was born, his mother kept her fingers crossed that her HIV would not pass on to the child.
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