For Bangladeshis on the move, Islam said, "their first destination is the large city, Dhaka." While a third of the newcomers see their incomes fall after arriving in the slums, Islam's research ...

His guide, a resident of Dhaka’s slums, led him throughout the city and helped arrange access to people’s homes. Keitel brought only his camera and two portable lights, which were necessary ...

Almost 5,000 slums are in and around Dhaka City. And almost one-third of the population are living in — at the low-income communities and slum areas. Most of them don't have ownership over those ...

The survey report, titled "Burden of Disease on the Urban Poor: A Study of Morbidity and Utilisation of Healthcare among Slum Dwellers in Dhaka City", found that a vast majority of the slum ...

In the centre of Dhaka, a few streets away from high rise office blocks and the penthouses of the wealthy, lies the city's biggest slum. It stands on a patch of land that was once a barren field ...

It’s true we have voted but we do not get anything from the government,” said Nurunnahar, an inhabitant of the Railway Colony slum in Tejgaon under Dhaka North City Corporation’s ward-24.

Josna Begum lives with her son in a house with four other families in a slum in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, the world’s most densely populated city. “Distancing is impossible for us,” she ...

DHAKA — Something strange is happening in the slums of Bangladesh’s capital — Covid-19 cases are hard to come by. When the pandemic first hit, the 20-odd slums in the city were feared to ...