Speakers pay rich tribute to Sir Fazle Hasan Abed and Dr Richard A Cash
When students took to the streets on July 1, 2024, demanding reforms of the quota system, they did not imagine that this movement was about to rewrite the history of Bangladesh.
Md Ismail was waiting for passengers in his battery-powered auto-rickshaw in Jatrabari’s Kajla area on July 18.
After days of endless violence, parts of Dhaka were relatively calm yesterday, the second day of the ongoing curfew.
All major roads and streets in Dhaka wore a deserted look amid curfew yesterday.
When the entire country is grappling with mosquito menace, a Bangladeshi entrepreneur and his team have come up with an ingenious solution that promises to be an effective tool in mosquito control.
April 22 was one of the hottest days Dhaka has ever experienced in the last 65 years. While many city dwellers preferred to stay in the comfort of their homes, some students of the department of philosophy at Jagannath University had other plans.
Mohua Rouf is one of the few Bangladeshis who have ever set foot on the world’s southernmost continent, Antarctica. She spent six days in the icy abode of penguins, seals and whales which is arguably the least-trodden place on earth by humans.
On Wednesday morning, the comfortable cabins of the top floor of Bangladesh Eye Hospital were cleaned, aired and the floors were mopped extensively for the arrivals of guests.
When conflict between Tipu Sultan, the independent ruler of Mysore and British East India Company reached its extreme, some Mysorean designers, in 1795 developed an ingenious instrument to appease their beloved Sultan.
November 12, 2016. Two helicopter gunships of Myanmar's armed forces emptied their rocket pods and machine guns into tiny villages of Rohingya Muslims at the country's Rakhine state, killing hundreds of the villagers and making thousands of them homeless refugees.
“Bangladesh is a gorgeous damsel and the jewel in her forehead is Saint Martin's Island,” a quote that rightly explains the indescribable beauty of Bangladesh's only coral island.
We were mercilessly flogged; our houses were burnt and bulldozed over. They looted everything - our last valuables and also our food.
Saint Martin's Island, the only coral island of Bangladesh, has lost most of its splendour due to continuous destruction of its precious...
A classroom of grade six with sixty three students crammed into a classroom which can accommodate hardly forty people.
If we make a list of some of the most charismatic political leaders of modern history, indubitably Fidel Castro will top many global
An indigenous community called Santal lives in the northern districts of Bangladesh. For thousands of years, these people have been
Jumping on the mattress to touch the ceiling was a favourite childhood game for most of us. However, for many people, jumping on the mattress carries a much bigger meaning.
