Bishakha Devnath

In 2007, a villager was killed as two groups clashed over the theft of a cow in Companiganj upazila of Sylhet. It took one year to complete the investigation of the murder case. Another seven years was taken to finish the trial. The pursuit of delayed justice resulted in nothing; in the verdict delivered in 2015, no one was punished.

Shahana Chowdhury kept going back to the story of her 25-year-old son’s recent Hong Kong visit and repeatedly said how proud she was to have seen her autistic child along with 10 others win the best performance award in a cultural programme there. Her excitement was mixed with gratitude for Begum Nur Jahan Dipa, special educator at the Parents Forum for the Differently Able (PFDA)-Vocational Training Centre, who made it possible.

Access to education is now just a click away and diving into it can be fun too.

Community-driven initiatives can bring about real changes to the scenario of child marriage in the country.

The world's first ever vaccine to prevent dengue fever works just fine on those who had contracted the disease before, but brings trouble to the people who were never infected by the virus.

Ezazur Rahman Chowdhury started his online business in 2013 selling perfumes and watches. The idea struck him during his post-

On a busy September evening last year, Limana Solaiman, a private service holder, waited at Kakoli in the capital for about one and a half hours to hail an auto-rickshaw home.

A foul-smelling narrow corridor, housing a cluttered drug store, an office room and a pathology lab on one side and consultants' rooms on the other.

Garment waste management exemplifies the idea of one man's trash being another man's treasure. If tapped correctly, it has the potential of bringing in $4 billion annually.

"Why did the intellectuals kill?"

Alamgir jumped out of a human haulier inside Dhaka Cantonment and kept hollering at the top of his voice, "Jahangir Gate, Jahangir Gate".

When the afternoon sun was shining down around 2:15pm yesterday, Sagor Hossain started for Farmgate from Shantinagar. He chose that particular time for the journey mainly to avoid the rush-hour traffic.

Sixty-five-year-old Fatema Begum lives deep into Madan upazila of Netrakona, where formal healthcare is an inconceivable luxury. So, when an itch broke out all over her body, she ignored it at first. But things got severe; she found herself scratching her skin until it swelled and began aching.

Hospital is her home. She toils away serving patients and sometimes nurses and doctors on request, eats the leftovers of patients and sleeps wherever she finds space to lie down inside the hospital.

The three-room flat in the capital's Paltan falls silent only when the children leave this home every afternoon to return to where they

Rokeya Begum's family lived off paddy farming in Bajitpur upazila of Kishoreganj. Three years ago, adverse weather damaged their crops, leaving them with nothing to subsist on.

On February 17 this year, much to the surprise of many Bangladeshis, especially those from the Hindu community, Pakistan's Senate...

Soon after the academic year began in January, Masuma Marjan tried to make a routine squeezing in all the 13 subjects she must complete before her JSC exams. But the eighth grader quickly realised she doesn't even have the whole year for her preparation -- her exams are scheduled for November. So she has settled for studying the main subjects first, each carrying 100 marks, and then thumb through the “less-significant” subjects in whatever time she will have left.

What was an impromptu celebration of Pahela Falgun in 1991 tied a group of students from Dhaka University's Faculty of Fine Arts forever, with affection and a memory that transformed into a bigger event.

Ishaan pulls out three books on Bangladesh and Global Studies, as he explains how he has been preparing for his final exams in class-VI. Two of them are actually guidebooks which he says are must-read study materials for excelling in the subject.