Julfekar Dehan

Julfekar Dehan is a Staff Sub-Editor at The Business Standard with experience in storytelling, news editing, data analysis, and content strategy. He can be reached at [email protected]

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Environment

Nature pays for dirty growth in Bangladesh

People offer prayers at graves for their loved ones, marking Eid, in Mugda graveyard, Dhaka, on 21 March 2026. Photo: Tashahud Ahamed Rafim

Features

The quiet graveyard: Where Eid pauses beyond the family frame

Bangladesh Election 2026

Green promises on the ballot: How BNP, Jamaat address climate and environment in manifestos

Jahanara Khuku, who was trafficked 47 years ago, arrived in Dhaka on 6 February 2026 on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Karachi. Photo: TBS

Features

Sold as a child, trafficked to Pakistan: Bangladeshi woman returns home after decades

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Bangladesh

Inside Bangladesh's new tobacco law: Public smoking fine hiked sevenfold to Tk2,000; Tk5,000 set for using vape

A customer gazes at an array of various conch bangles - Sankha, and Pola, arranged on glass shelves, 8 September 2025, at Shankharibazar, Dhaka. Photo: Julfekar Dehan

Features

Julfekar Dehan

Nature pays for dirty growth in Bangladesh

The quiet graveyard: Where Eid pauses beyond the family frame

Green promises on the ballot: How BNP, Jamaat address climate and environment in manifestos

Sold as a child, trafficked to Pakistan: Bangladeshi woman returns home after decades

Inside Bangladesh's new tobacco law: Public smoking fine hiked sevenfold to Tk2,000; Tk5,000 set for using vape

Sankha and Shankharibazar: Where history clinks on a wrist