Women's health research is inequitable despite physiological differences. This is a social injustice.
Amid unprecedented levels of suppression, legal hurdles, and personal risks, journalists in Bangladesh stood firm against the fascist government of Sheikh Hasina during the July uprising.
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.
Mosquitoe-bites are a menace for everybody. Especially, during this season, due to the risk of dengue, chikungunya etc.
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?
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.
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.
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.
The long and arduous year, that is 2016, is finally over and now we can look forward to all the cinematic treats 2017 has in store for us.
Let us look back at the passing year to remind ourselves why we should be glad that it’s over.
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.
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.
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.
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 is the 260th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the most prolific, influential and genius composers and pianists of all time.
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.
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.
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.
