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The daughter who carried the torch for her father

Panorama

The daughter who carried the torch for her father

Sheikh Mujib the writer

Mujib Year

Sheikh Mujib the writer

The majority of embankments cannot hold an 88-centimetre rise in sea level. Photo: Mumit M

Panorama

‘Sea level rise is not a doomsday scenario’

Sojag’s 15-bull-strong station at Shailan village in Dhamrai serves as a source for a wide variety of mixed racial stocks that deliver high quality genetic seeds for local cattle breeds. This has facilitated high production of meat and milk, which in turn has helped villagers earn more. Photo: Mumit M

Economy

Transforming a community from within

Highest award to an obscure poet

Panorama

Highest award to an obscure poet

Managing Director of City Bank Limited Mashrur Arefin. Photo: Rehman Asad/TBS

Interviews

‘Finance is my passion; literature is my divine calling’

"A Grammar of the Bengal Language", written by English Orientalist and Philologist Nathaniel Brassey Halhed in 1778. Photo: Collected

Features

The book that shaped Bengali language

Language movement: Bangabandhu and the strike that started it all

Panorama

Language movement: Bangabandhu and the strike that started it all

Photo: Mumit M

Environment

Mangrove trees in the Sundarbans have weakened

'Climate change is happening faster than it was predicted'

Interviews

'Climate change is happening faster than it was predicted'

A recent paper published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) predicts that during the 2040-2059 period, Bangladesh will lose 36.49 percent of its GDP per capita/Photo: Mumit M

Economy

Bangladesh to lose 36.49% GDP per capita to climate change

In contrast to a sharp rise in the overall Hilsa population and production in the country, the number of Padma Hilsa is diminishing due to an insufficient period of ban on fishing aimed at preserving the stock. Photo: Mumit M

Bazaar

The Padma Hilsas are depleting

File photo of Cyclone Fani/ UNB

Environment

Cyclone Fani among 15 most destructive weather events in 2019