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Mokammel Shuvo

Reporter at The Daily Star and Jessore Correspondent at The Daily Star

St Martin’s Island plastic waste

Where did all this waste come from before tourist season? Myanmar, Thailand-labelled trash found on St Martin’s

4 HOUR(s)
Officials warn foreign plastic debris could threaten coral and marine biodiversity as more waste may be accumulating on the seabed
4 HOUR(s)
Ramu attack 2012

14 years after Ramu violence, justice still pending

30 September 2026
“Before the 2012 attack, we considered this house to be the safest place. We no longer feel that. We have been living in fear for 14 years,” says Mukim Bala, a Buddhist resident of Barua Para in Cox’s Bazar.
30 September 2026
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Limited banking access proposed for Rohingyas to check hundi risks

22 September 2026
An intelligence report has proposed allowing selected Rohingya families to open controlled bank accounts to divert hundi remittances into formal channels and curb their misuse for crime and terror financing.
22 September 2026
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A road to ruin Maheshkhali forest

17 September 2026
Despite repeated objections from Forest Department, construction of a 4.8km paved road through the protected forest continues
17 September 2026
Rohingya Refugee Camps Violence | Rohingya camps killings

Rohingya camps: Violence rears its head after a year of relative calm

7 September 2026
After a year of decline, violence between armed groups in the Rohingya camps has risen.
7 September 2026
online fraud network in Cox’s Bazar Bangladesh

Fraud network scatters after Cox’s Bazar raid

7 September 2026
Around 250-300 Chinese and Taiwanese nationals, reportedly part of an online financial fraud network, have gone on the run after six of their cohorts were arrested from two hotels in Cox’s Bazar on Thursday night.
7 September 2026
New Zealand family boat accident in Bangladesh

Island Girl: A broken dream

6 September 2026
A New Zealand family spent more than two years building a wooden catamaran in Cox’s Bazar. Their dream ended when the catamaran broke apart and their 16-year-old son was lost at sea
6 September 2026
Bangladesh Marine Fish Catch Decline

Marine fish catch slumps amid overfishing, habitat loss

6 September 2026
Years of overfishing, destructive fishing practices and damage to marine habitats are depleting Bangladesh’s fish stocks, with catches of hilsa and other marine species falling sharply.
6 September 2026
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150 Rohingyas to return today

The first batch of Rohingyas is all set to be sent back to Myanmar today amid reports that many of the refugees listed for return are hiding in fear of forcible repatriation.
14 November 2018
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Monsoon worry for Rohingyas

With early rains falling on the Rohingya camps in Cox's Bazar, the fear of natural calamities has heightened among the refugees living in tiny shanties made of bamboo poles and tarpaulin in the district's Ukhia and Teknaf.
20 April 2018
Jessore road

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.
25 March 2018
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TREES, HILLS RAZED by ROHINGYAS

It was around eleven in the morning.
20 March 2018
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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.
18 January 2018
Pankouri flock in Sirajganj

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
19 October 2017
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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.
5 August 2017
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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
20 April 2017
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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.
16 March 2017
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MONGOL SHOBHAJATRA

The first light of Mongol Shobhajatra, the colourful procession at the dawn of Pahela Baishakh, illuminated Jessore in 1985. Charupite
13 April 2016
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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.
8 April 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.
21 March 2016

'Underage driver was out on a joyride'

The speeding car at which Uttara police shot live rounds during a chase on Monday afternoon was being driven by an underage boy.
17 November 2015

Work likely to start by Dec

Construction of the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery is expected to begin by December, aiming to produce skilled healthcare providers, including surgeons, and provide state of the art facilities and proper treatment to around six lakh patients a year.
29 October 2015
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Baby Suraiya now safe in mother's arms

What could be more comforting for Nazma Khatun than being finally reunited with her baby girl Suraiya who was separated from her at birth?
16 August 2015
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Welcome to the cruel world

The atrocity this unborn baby faced beats wartime savagery. Before she was born, one bullet pierced her right shoulder and another critically injured her right eye, as if to tell her that even a mother's womb is no longer a safe place for the unborn.
27 July 2015
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