Students pledge to protect nature
Over 271,000 people in Bangladesh died from air pollution-related causes in 2023, according to a new global report.
With the dry season approaching, Dhaka city’s air quality has once again slipped to an unhealthy level, underscoring the inadequacy of the limited measures taken by the authorities to curb air pollution.
Demand relocation of the facility
Water Development Board in Kurigram took steps to evict the grabber after The Daily Star published a report on the canal's encroachment on October 16
Experts urge awareness as rediscovered predator faces survival threats
Bangladesh’s hard-won economic resilience is being tested as the twin pressures of climate change and mounting external debt converge to threaten its financial stability.
A low-pressure area is likely to form over the southeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining area around October 24, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department.
Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor Shahadat Hossain yesterday urged port city residents to abstain from using single-use plastics, saying that a sustainable solution to the city’s waterlogging problem lies in eliminating polythene.
In Bangladesh alone, over 19,000 children under five died in 2021 due to air pollution
The HC bench of Justice Kazi Zinat Hoque and Justice Aynun Nahar Siddiqua issued the rule after hearing a writ petition
Day and night temperatures may remain nearly unchanged over the country
Marked the biggest one-year increrase since record keeping started in 1957
Bangladesh becomes first Asian nation to embed ‘Just Transition’ in climate pledge
Torrential rains battered several Mexican states over several days last week
When we treat animal welfare as a beat, not a spectacle, we’ll be humane, not just human
Gusty winds and thunder showers expected in Chattogram and Sylhet
A twin-spotted tree frog spotted in Chattogram’s Hazarikhil Wildlife Sanctuary rests motionless on a damp branch, its emerald skin glistening under the forest light.
Officials suspect the animal drifted from Assam’s forests
