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Dr Mozib visits the adopted children regularly, spends time with them and follows their progress for the first three years. Photos: Courtesy

Dr Mozib Newborn Foundation: Where Bangladesh's abandoned newborns find new lives

Every year, newborn babies are abandoned in dustbins, drains, on roadsides and beneath bridges across Bangladesh, many with little chance of survival. Since 2016, one organisation has quietly been...

In Dhaka, days of rainfall left many roads submerged, disrupting public transport and bringing large parts of the city to a standstill. Photo: Rajib Dhar

How two megacities stopped functioning at once

Iran has threatened to attack US military sites across the Gulf. Photo: DW

Renewed US-Iran war is hitting Gulf countries hard

A man stands on a lifted up sidewalk as he watches people struggle in waist-deep water in Green Road, Dhaka, on 12 July 2026 as incessant downpour has caused waterlogging in some parts of the capital. Photo: Rajib Dhar/TBS

Can 'sponge cities' help Bangladesh beat urban flooding?

The tigress steps into the Sundarbans, six months after she was rescued from the nets of illegal deer hunters. Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain

The jungle queen walks back to jungle

Once a mangrove forest is now a landscape of dead roots and tree stumps on Sonadia Island. Photos: Nupa Alam

Sonadia's mangroves: The vanishing of a coastal shield

Is reviving and sustaining a closed factory an easy task?

Is reviving and sustaining a closed factory an easy task?

Bangladesh's Indie filmmakers look for a new home in YouTube

Bangladesh's Indie filmmakers look for a new home in YouTube

Beyond outsourcing: How Betopia Group is anchoring Bangladesh's leap into Asia's leading AI economy

Beyond outsourcing: How Betopia Group is anchoring Bangladesh's leap into Asia's leading AI economy

Soaring NPLs: Who will stem the tide?

Soaring NPLs: Who will stem the tide?

The hospital has 400 beds, about 70% of them non-paying. Photos: Asma Sultana Prova

The families living through the toll of a loved one’s mental illness

The political maps we overlay on the Teesta River’s body, photographed here in Sikkim, are fictions she can dissolve in an hour. Photo: Indrajit Das via Wikipedia

The river will outlive maps: Teesta’s journey through geopolitics, myth and memory

All of the paramilitary groups that Iran supports in the Middle East now have drones of their own. Photo: Iranian Supreme Leader’s Office

How drones transformed Iran’s relationships with its proxies