A massive fire has swept through a slum in the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, leaving thousands of people homeless. At least 1,200 tin shacks were destroyed in the Chalantika slum late on Friday ...

Colin Window swaps his Thames ferry for the Buriganga River in Dhaka, and life in a slum. Rowing the 'sampan' down the polluted river is back-breaking work, in the 40 degree heat. Homepage ...

Out of 164.7 million Bangladeshi, one in four live below the poverty line. As of 2016, an estimated 3.5 million people live in the slums of Dhaka.

Korail, the largest slum in the city of nearly 20 million, occupies an island-like patch of land separated from mainland Dhaka by Gulshan Lake and its canals. The tin-shed houses lining the slum ...

Last month, a massive blaze in Dhaka's old quarter killed at least 78 people and injured dozens more. That same month, a fire in a slum in the coastal city of Chittagong killed at least nine people.