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

Politics

4 Jatiya Party factions prepare for polls without grassroots presence

Environment

Dhaka South teams up with Korean firm to turn trash into energy and fertilizer

A rickshaw is charged through an unauthorised power line on Mirpur national Zoo Road on Tuesday. Illegal charging points keep rising across Dhaka, powering nearly 10 lakh battery-run rickshaws and causing an estimated Tk4,000 crore in annual power theft. Photo: Md Jahidul Islam

Bangladesh

'Bangla Tesla' boom drains nearly Tk4,000 crore in power theft a year in Dhaka

Court

Substandard KitKat, sugar, powdered milk: Arrest warrants issued for Nestlé Bangladesh, Meghna Group, SA Group bosses

Bangladesh

Earthquake damages 300 buildings in Dhaka; Rajuk inaction irks HC

National Citizen Party. photo: collected

Politics

To ally or not to ally: NCP suffers Hamlet-esque indecision as election nears

Bangladesh

Dhaka on edge: Panic all around after repeated earthquakes

Bangladesh

High-rise death traps: At least 50 Dhaka buildings tilt after quake

Firemen on duty at a collapsed building site in Old Dhaka on 21 November 2025. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS

Bangladesh

Has an earthquake this intense ever struck so close to Dhaka before?

Representational Photo: iStock/Getty Images

Bangladesh

Dengue rages as Tk1,000cr lost to futile mosquito control efforts

Panorama

'Provisions in referendum gazette unconstitutional, could result in hung parliament'

Motorcycle rally of Islami nominated MP candidate Muhammad Alauddin Sikdar in Bangladesh Jamayat in Chittagong-3 (Sandweep) seat in the eyes of a bird.
Sura members and Amir in Central Majlis, Chittagong District North. Screengrab: Facebook

Politics

Financing early election show: Putting money for future gains?

The front wall of Sonali Bank’s head office in Motijheel, Dhaka, is almost completely covered
with overlapping political posters and placards ahead of the national election. Photo taken
on Sunday. Photo: Mehedi Hasan

Politics