Recovery

Authorities demolishing illegal structure on a forestland in Gazipur on 28 June 2025. Photo: Courtesy
Environment

Tk35 crore worth of forestland recovered in Gazipur; 205 illegal structures demolished

Multiple government agencies participated in the operation, including the Gazipur Sadar Upazila Administration, Bangladesh Army, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Dhaka...

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Food

Foods that help you regain strength after a bout of dengue

Photo shows the Land Cruiser Prado car belonging to former member of parliament (MP) Anwarul Azim Anar found in Kushtia. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Luxury car of ex-AL MP Anar, who was killed in Kolkata, found in Kushtia

Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur speaks to media at a press briefing at the Foreign Service Academy in Dhaka on Monday, 19 May 2025. Photo: Focus Bangla
Bangladesh

Govt to form fund with seized assets to compensate depositors, aid poor: BB governor

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Bangladesh

1,400 stolen firearms, 2.5 lakh rounds of ammo yet to be recovered: CA’s special assistant

An excavator removes waste from the Baunia canal in Dhaka, which stretches about 7.2 km from Mirpur-13 before merging with the Turag River in Uttara, recently. City corporation officials say given the current situation, apart from cleaning the waste from the canal, it is not possible to demolish or remove illegal structures. Photo: Md Jahidul Islam
Bangladesh

Recovering Dhaka’s canals from encroachers won’t be easy – Baunia canal shows why

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Bangladesh

How BWDB plans to evict 4,000 illegal structures along Dhaka embankment

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Crime

3 bodies recovered in a day in Cumilla

Tk1.77 lakh crore default loan cases settled with just 20% recovery
Banking

Tk1.77 lakh crore default loan cases settled with just 20% recovery

Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan. File Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

16 acres of grabbed forest recovered in 4 months : Rizwana

Shannon Turner (she/they), who has been dealing with the effects of long COVID on top of psoriatic arthritis, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and autoimmune diseases, rests on her couch and uses a heating pad to help with inflammation after an evening of performing and hanging with friends in Philadelphia, March 2023. Photo: Reuters
Health

Many long Covid patients adjust to slim recovery odds as world moves on

Chairman of the Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) Khondoker Rashed Maqsood talks during a meeting with he board of directors of the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) at the stock exchange office on Wednesday, 16 October 2024. Photo: Collected
Stocks

Capital market needs time, planned measures to come out of crisis: BSEC chairman

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Economy

Bangladesh PMI improves to 49.7 in September