While the official reason is encroachment on disputed land — a case the court is hearing — the residents believe they are being targeted for being Bengali. It’s a suspicion they share with Bengal chie ...

A new 4.5km access road in Jomvu, Mombasa, is set to ease congestion and improve safety for traders, schoolchildren and ...

With extreme heat episodes becoming more frequent, a team of women is teaching people living in a Barishal slum how to cope ...

As Dhaka swelters under record temperatures, women in the city’s poorest neighbourhoods face a brutal, daily struggle—trapped between unpaid care, precarious work, and suffocating heat with no escape ...

More than half of all households in Bangladesh's urban slums face food insecurity, and nearly half of children are stunted.

Urban slums in Dhaka continue to reflect the stark reality of food insecurity and malnutrition faced by the city’s ...

As part of its AdSEARCH dissemination series, icddr,b held a scientific seminar on Monday at the Sasakawa Auditorium in Mohakhali, where it shared results from the Nutri-CAP study.

For decades, the left had been fragmented and driven underground or into irrelevance. The parliamentary left—parties like the Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB), the Socialist Party (BASAD), and the ...