‘We couldn’t save anything’: Families mourn losses after floods in Bangladesh’s Chattogram
Over 14,000 hectares of cropland damaged; 10,000 ponds and enclosures affected.
Sifayet Ullah
Clay and memory: Potters of Bangladeshi village return only for Bengali new year
Once a thriving pottery hub, Fatikchhari's Kulalpara now revives its craft briefly for Bengla new year.
Brick kilns ravage land, waterbodies in Bangladesh’s Chattogram
Government data shows at least 70 brick kilns operate in Satkania upazila, 41 of them illegally. Both licensed and illegal kilns are stripping fertile topsoil from farmlands and…
Ravaging a forest for fish farming
Despite knowing what is going on, the forest department has not taken any action to evict the encroachers of the 250-acre forest it had earlier developed to protect the upazila…