10 tips to fight off the winter blues
The days are short and the sun is playing hide and seek. It is a brand-new year and instead of feeling hopeful, you are feeling rather down.
1y ago
Do mosquitoes prefer one blood type over others?
Mosquitoe-bites are a menace for everybody. Especially, during this season, due to the risk of dengue, chikungunya etc.
2y ago
What does Elon Musk plan to do with Twitter?
Elon Musk has said that he wants to see Twitter fulfil its “extraordinary potential”. Is that why he has been so interested in owning the social media platform?
2y ago
Top 5 Bangla cooking channels on YouTube
We Bangladeshis love to eat and cook. However, with the increasingly busy schedule of urban life, we have started to forget our traditional recipes and heritage of delicate cooking.
2y ago
Leonard Cohen: ‘Our Shelley, our Byron’
Leonard Norman Cohen was born on this day in 1934 in Quebec, Canada. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships.
3y ago
From Madrasa to English medium, Gurukul Online Learning Network reaching 23 lakh students
Sufi Faruq Ibne Abubakar, former IT head of a multinational company, started Gurukul Online Learning Network with a dream to minimize the quality gap between education available to city and rural students.
3y ago
Dhaka enjoyed healthy air after Eid-ul-Azha
Dhaka’s air saw significant fall in pollution level during the three days following Eid-ul-Azha.
3y ago
Chickenpox overview: Myths and realities
Let us try to dig deep into the myths and realities of chickenpox, the tropical disease of the season, with the help of experts.
6y ago
November 7, 2016
How to deal with parents’ unrealistic expectations in your 20s
In Bangladesh we still live with our parents when we are in our twenties. We are either in the last years of our universities or looking for jobs after freshly graduating. But mostly wondering what we need to do or how far we need to go to fulfill the growing list of expectations of our parents and the society.
October 23, 2016
The thug life of a goat
We can see a goat drinking from a cup of tea with much flair standing on its two legs in the video captured at a road side tea stall in Mymensingh by a morning walker, Shamsul Alam.
April 27, 2016
Opinion: How can one kill a teacher?
When somebody dies, how many ways does s/he still remain alive in? People say the person remains alive in the memories of the near and dear ones. Some say they remain alive in the names of the descendants. Science says they remain on the surface of the world in another form of matter.
March 29, 2016
In remembrance of Shaheed Rumi
Shaheed Shafi Imam Rumi, a guerrilla fighter who fought valiantly in the Liberation War of Bangladesh will always remain 19 in the eyes of people of the country who know the history of sacrifices of a mere teenager and his family for this country.
January 27, 2016
Happy birthday, Mozart!
January 27, 2016 is the 260th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the most prolific, influential and genius composers and pianists of all time.
January 24, 2016
bKash revolutionising banking for poor: Bill Gates
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest philanthropic organisation, has in the past given away money, much of it to fight infectious diseases. Now it has a new strategy of investing in technologies that can make goods and services affordable to the poor.
January 1, 2016
Why 2015 was a good year for Bangladesh
It’s a good time to be alive while history is being written. As we bid adieu to 2015 we realise the year was a roller coaster ride! It was a year of aggression and violence that carved the world for many new beginnings. Let us take a stroll and reminisce the achievements of the past year in various arenas that molded the nation to take on 2016.
December 6, 2015
Happy Birthday, Tareque Masud
With great reverence we remember Tareque Masud, the “Cinema Feriwalla”, a leading Bangladeshi independent filmmaker, film producer, screenwriter and lyricist who was born on this very day in the year of 1956.
November 13, 2015
In remembrance of Humayun Ahmed, the wizard of words
Humayun Ahmed is the most celebrated writer of contemporary time and one of the best story tellers in the history of Bangla literature.
November 11, 2015
On ‘Revolt, Freedom and Passion’ of Camus
November 7 was the birthday of French Nobel Prize–winning philosopher and novelist Albert Camus, the great contributor to the rise of Absurdism.
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