Md Jahidul Islam

Md Jahidul Islam is a Staff Correspondent at The Business Standard who has nine years of experience and specializes in city corporation, utility service and environment. He can be reached at jahid.cou.edu@gmail.com

An 18-kilometre section of the 48km Dhaka Bypass Expressway was opened to traffic on 24 August 2025. Photo: Olid Ebna Shah
In Focus

How Dhaka Bypass Expressway will benefit people

A signboard marks Rabindra University’s “designated site” on four acres of filled land between the Gumani River and Chalanbil reservoir. Despite alternative options, the boat-only accessible site remains submerged for months, with fishermen using the area, raising concerns over its impracticality. Photo: Md Jahidul Islam
Environment

Proposed Rabindra Univ campus in Chalan Beel: Environmentalists urge alternative sites

Photo: Collected
Environment

Bootcamp of hope: Young Bangladeshis lead climate-smart ventures

Ashiyan City promotes land beyond approved area, defying Rajuk orders
Bangladesh

Ashiyan City promotes land beyond approved area, defying Rajuk orders

A partially dug-up road with exposed pipes leaves only a narrow strip for pedestrians at Kamal Khan Road, Ibrahimpur, where two people walk cautiously. Residents are facing severe water shortages as prolonged excavation by Dhaka North City Corporation blocks tanker access. Delays blamed on rain and other issues have forced many to risk unsafe roads or install illegal deep tubewells to meet daily needs. Photo: Md Jahidul Islam
Infrastructure

Wasa water crisis deepens in Dhaka's Ibrahimpur, residents moving away

Anisul Islam Mahmud and Ruhul Amin Howlader. Photo: Collected
Politics

Sixth split in JaPa: Anisul Islam Mahmud, Ruhul Amin Howlader lead new faction

Joseph Eapen, CEO of Asian Paints International Ltd. Sketch: TBS
Interviews

‘We don’t just make paint, we create painting experiences that matter’

People celebrate the fall of Hasina's government on 5 August 2024. Photo: Nayem Ali
Supplement

‘Covering the July uprising meant accepting I might not come home’

Industrial pipes and treatment tanks brimming with recycled water at Fakir Knitwears Ltd’s new water-reuse demonstration facility in Narayanganj. Commissioned on 30 July, the plant is capable of recycling 4.38 lakh cubic metres of water annually and is expected to cut fresh groundwater use by 30%. Photo: Md Jahidul Islam
Bangladesh

Fakir Knitwears’ $1.7m N’ganj plant to treat 12 lakh litres wastewater a day

Infographic: TBS
Environment

Dhaka's 60% waterbodies lost in 44 years, built-up areas surged 7 times: Study

Firefighters work to remove the wreckage from a building, after an air force training aircraft crashed into Milestone College campus, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 21, 2025. Photo: Reuters
Bangladesh

Once a source of joy, now a sound of fear, trauma – a haunting echo

A crane removes debris from the BAF fighter jet that crashed into Milestone School and College on Monday, 21 July 2025. Photo: Olid Ibna Shah/TBS
Bangladesh

Milestone plane crash: Students were preparing for coaching after class

Inside the ICU of the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka, a young boy lies in critical condition, his body scorched. Photo: Jahidul Islam/TBS
Milestone Tragedy

I don't want to stay here anymore, take me away: Ayan cries from ICU