Mohammad Manjur, along with 22 other fishermen, ventured out into the Bay of Bengal in the early hours of June 12, just after a 58-day fishing ban was lifted.
Low hilsa catch, turbulent weather frustrate fishers days after ban ends
Businesspeople expressed hope that tourism during Eid-ul-Azha holidays will generate over Tk 700 crore in transactions in Cox’s Bazar.
A humanitarian crisis in Cox’s Bazar Rohingya camps is brewing in the face of funding shortage for the refugees and more arrivals from the conflict-ridden Rakhine state of Myanmar.
Locals came together to dig canals in an effort to drain the accumulated water
Over 1,000 acres of protected mangrove forest on Sonadia Island in Moheshkhali upazila of Cox’s Bazar have been razed since August 5 last year.
Ignoring objections, the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) in Cox’s Bazar is constructing a jetty in and on the foreshore of the Maheshkhali Channel, the most important waterway in South Chattogram that flows into the Bay of Bengal.
Nestled in the thick shade of a large mango tree in Chowdhury Para of Teknaf Municipality, a wooden tree house offers quite the spectacle..Built by former Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi, the structure was a quiet retreat where he entertained VIPs and special guests..However,
Business and recreation go hand-in-hand in Cox’s Bazar. But amidst all the usual frenzy, the tourist town fights a silent battle every day -- to make its waste management work.
With the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, prices of essential commodities see a hiking trend -- a common phenomenon in the country for quite some years now.
On one hand, it’s good news that the government has taken up a river excavation project at Hari and Teka rivers to recede water from the waterlogged Bhabadah region.
Around 120 villages in the Bhabadah region in Jashore and Khulna are still under water, even as winter marches.
A racket that includes officials tampered with at least 36 cheques and stole almost Tk 7 crore from a bank account of Jashore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education in the last five years, an investigation found.
Like previous incidents of communal violence unleashed on minority communities, a post making the rounds on Facebook was what triggered the October 13 attacks in Chandpur’s Hajiganj upazila during Durga Puja celebrations.
After raping both a mother and her daughter in Sherpur’s Nalitabari on Sunday, the perpetrators are now threatening the victim family for filing a case.
Around 80 villages have been flooded in at least six upazilas of Jashore and Khulna districts due to incessant rain last month.
Hilsa has become pricier since export of the national fish to India commenced last week.
When the Covid-19 pandemic began, some cultural activists could not bear the thought of staying back home as everyone else suffered.
