Bangladeshi filmmaker Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s 2020 London and Busan selection “The Salt in Our Waters,” which will play at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow on Nov. 8, is a ...

In a remote village Bangladeshi village called Shikarpur, until recently, few people had electricity. But a new system is beginning to connect the village’s handful of solar-powered homes with ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A transboundary canal carrying wastewater from upstream India has been impacting the agriculture and aquatic resources of a village in downstream ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh—A year after Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering tiny loans to the world’s poor, he announced plans to form his own political party. It would be called the ...

With most of his school under floodwaters, 6-year-old Mohamed Achan pulled his oversize tomato-red shorts up around his tiny waist, placed a tarp over his head to guard against the rain, and sprinted ...

This description of a revisit to village Fatepur turns on its head several existing, stereotypical notions of what constitutes development in Bangladesh. The villagers' assessment of what counts - old ...

In the near future, perhaps in a tin-roofed clinic in Kurigram, a 28-year-old health worker named Salma Begum might press a smartphone against a coughing toddler's chest. The device's screen could ...