Ashraful Haque

Senior Feature Writer

Island hopping in Bangladesh?
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Island hopping in Bangladesh?

Zero Idea: Carving out a space for science on social media
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Zero Idea: Carving out a space for science on social media

Illustration: TBS
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Bridging the industry-academia gap through collaboration

The ‘khepwalas’ appear to be targeting the apps themselves, so users are forced to commute on informal contracts. Photo: Noor A Alam/TBS
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Why are riders accepting trips and not showing up?

In the absence of local factories, there’s not much else to do other than cutting down the palm trees, according to a palm tree planter. Photo: Sanjida Jui
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Oil palm plantation: A hype that never came to fruition

Agroshift supplies RMG workers with agricultural products directly from the farmers. PHOTO: Agroshift’s Facebook page
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Replacing middlemen: Will Agroshift's attempts at scaling up see success?

Pure Earth has done some lead cleanup in Mirzapur in Tangail, and in Ashulia, Dhaka, where informal battery recycling factories contaminated land and water. Photo: Courtesy
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Lead poisoning: Pure Earth wants us to be worried

Tourists would actively participate in preparing the meals so they get a taste of rural lifestyle. Photo: Sarah Steiner
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Taabu Ekduaria: Setting the pathway to village tourism

Hope Dies Last: A tête-à-tête with Alan Weisman
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Hope Dies Last: A tête-à-tête with Alan Weisman

Pittachhara (on the right) has put up resistance against the aggression of the monoculture plantation (on the left). The blue square is Russel’s home. Photo: Courtesy
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Pittachhara Conservation Initiative: A man’s fight to protect private forest patches in Khagrachhari

The plastic waste road in Gazipur was constructed by LGED with technical support from Greenbud. Photo: Courtesy
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Greenbud: When protecting the environment is the business

Flood victim Goni Mia had no other way but to send his wife and two daughters to Narayanganj to look for work. Photo: Masud Al Mamun
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Migration, child labour and starvation: How Sylhet flood victims are coping with its aftermath

Every couple of years, dozens of fishing boats with hundreds of artisanal fishermen capsize in the Bay of Bengal. Photo: Mumit M
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Lost in the Bay: SOS from seagoing artisanal fishers