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This picture was taken from chorok festival at Sylhet, Bangladesh where People believe that the festival will carry prosperity by eliminating the sorrow and sufferings of the previous year through hardships on the body. Photo: Subrata Dey

Features

Sacrifice for the hope

Vanishing Bees: Our existential threat

Earth

Vanishing Bees: Our existential threat

Jagat Seth of Bengal: Banker of the world

Features

Jagat Seth of Bengal: Banker of the world

A passage to Agartala

Analysis

A passage to Agartala

In praise of good policies

Analysis

In praise of good policies

A 45kg Katla fish worth Tk80,000

Trade

A 45kg Katla fish worth Tk80,000

People dump wastages into the Buriganga River at Kamrangirchar area in the capital. Photo: Rehman Asad/TBS

Environment

‘Plastic river!’

Coup supporters celebrate victory in Tehran/Collected

Analysis

How US, UK killed Iran democracy in 4 days

The making of an enemy

Analysis

The making of an enemy

A man makes way through fallen trees on the road from Munshiganj to Burigoalini after cyclone Bulbul hit the coastal area last month. People in the coastal area live in constant fear of cyclones as the newly restored embankments there look feeble in the face of mighty storms. Photo: Mumit M

Environment

Rising waves, incarcerated fishermen and vanishing villages

The grand forefather of the domestic stock

Earth

The grand forefather of the domestic stock

Long Read

Forest shower

50 years old Bosun (a senior crewman) Anis does not care a penny about wild sea. He is obsessed with the thoughts of his beloved daughters. All of them are eligible to get married. In the next sign off, he must make that arrangement. God knows whether he can manage that or not. I took this picture in a stormy weather on north Pacific and suddenly this big wave covered us within a few seconds.

Long Read

The mariners