5+ hour, 30+ min ago  (756+ words) Yet, while the rescue itself is a success story, it also presents Bangladesh with an important conservation challenge: what should be the long-term future of this tigress? This question is larger than the fate of a single animal. It provides…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (807+ words) The killing of a seven-year-old girl by the resident crocodile in a pond at Bagerhat's Hazrat Khan Jahan Ali shrine on Monday night, following a similar attack on a dog in April, has exposed longstanding failures in wildlife management and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (279+ words) Why does Bangladesh still face evening power shortages despite abundant sunshine? Why do factories fall back on diesel-run generators when we have time-shiftable solar generation potential during the day? Why is our energy supply still so vulnerable to shifting geopolitics?...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (582+ words) Mosquitoes can learn to associate the smell of the world's most common insect repellent with a tasty meal " and after training can even prefer to bite people who have been sprayed with it, an experimental study said Thursday. The study…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (218+ words) Today, the tourism industry and conservation campaigns continue to portray the Sundarbans as "divine," "untouched," "virgin," and a "natural heaven of beauty," among other romanticised imaginaries. Such representations exoticise and romanticise the forest, transforming it into a consumable spectacle of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (331+ words) On Eid day, State Minister for Local Government Mir Shahe Alam said all sacrificial waste would be removed by 2: 00am. Later that night, officials of both Dhaka city corporations also claimed the capital was on its way to becoming fully clean....

3+ week, 7+ hour ago  (886+ words) A traveller logs on to an airline website late at night, searching for a last-minute fare. The company's AI chatbot greets him politely and tells him, mid-conversation, that he qualifies for a 30% discount. The answer is confident. The tone sounds…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (893+ words) Bangi News Why Bangladesh should have a planetarium in every division On a clear evening in a small town in Bangladesh, a child stands outside and looks up at the sky. The stars are visible, scattered across the darkness. She…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (688+ words) Water experts, environmentalists, and economists on Thursday gave mixed reactions to the Padma Barrage phase-I to be built at Tk Tk 33, 475 crore to offset ecological damage in Bangladesh caused by the controversial India's Farakka Barrage across the border. They said…...

4+ week, 17+ hour ago  (193+ words) Google has announced a broad set of updates for Android 17, the newest version of its mobile operating system. Announced at the Android Show on May 12, ahead of the I/O developer conference next week, here are the confirmed highlights. Screen…...