The colectivos are tasked with keeping social order on the streets -- but accused by opponents of beating and intimidating rivals.

Amid an ongoing shortage of household gas supply over the past couple of months, a leak in a pipeline under the Turag River has reduced supply to almost zero in parts of the capital.

With the winter chill biting hard, Chattogram’s footpaths have transformed into bustling hubs for winter commerce.

They grew up hearing that voting was their right, only to watch how easily that right could be snatched away in elections widely criticised as “sham polls”.