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Mokammel Shuvo

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Sep 17, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Mokammel Shuvo

    A road to ruin Maheshkhali forest (opens the original)

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    The protected forest on Maheshkhali, Bangladesh’s only hilly island, could be at risk if construction of a 4.8km paved road continues, Forest Department officials and environmentalists said. The Tk 22 crore project by the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) could trigger encroachment, deforestation and habitat destruction by opening up previously inaccessible parts of the reserve, they said. Construction, however, is ongoing despite repeated objections from the Forest Department. The

  2. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · Mokammel Shuvo and Mohammad Jamil Khan

    Rohingya camps: Violence rears its head after a year of relative calm (opens the original)

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    After a year of decline, violence between armed groups in the Rohingya camps has risen. Since the murder of Rohingya armed group commander Kefayatullah Halim on May 5, there have been at least six incidents of killings, shootings, and attacks, including a gunfight that left a six-year-old child and his mother injured. The child was shot in the head while he was in his mother’s lap during a nearly two-hour-long gunbattle between two armed groups at Camp-8 East in Ukhiya on August 27. His mother w

  3. Article · Sep 6, 2026 · Mokammel Shuvo

    Island Girl: A broken dream (opens the original)

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    To say that the Pudneys were adventurous would be an understatement. This family of four from New Zealand travelled back and forth between Bangladesh and New Zealand for two and a half years as they set about building their dream. They had found a dockyard in Cox’s Bazar with the kind of craftsmen they needed and access to the timber required to build their 58-foot catamaran, the Island Girl. This would be their home, and they planned to sail the seas aboard it. But the Island Girl was shipwreck

  4. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · Mokammel Shuvo

    Told surfing was not for girls, Fatema now heads to Asian Games for Bangladesh (opens the original)

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    When a teenage girl walks onto Cox’s Bazar beach carrying a surfboard, she inevitably draws attention. Some admire her; others question whether a girl should be surfing at all. For 17-year-old Fatema Akter, a Class 10 student, such questions have been part of her six-year journey as a surfer. After overcoming social criticism and financial hardship, she is now preparing to represent Bangladesh at the Asian Games in Japan. The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026, to be held from September 19 to October

  5. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Mokammel Shuvo

    Once a forest now a landscape of loss (opens the original)

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    About two and a half kilometres southeast of Dulahazara Bazar in Cox’s Bazar’s Chakaria upazila, along a winding rural road, lies Paglir Bil Road. The land on both sides is still officially classified as forest, although some parts have already been occupied and settled. Large-scale encroachment has not yet taken place in the forest areas of Dulahazara and Khutakhali unions. But the forest itself is largely gone. Where thousands of giant garjan trees once stood, there are now mostly wild shrubs

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