Md Shahnawaz Khan Chandan

“I cannot bear it anymore. I had to stay in the open street for ten days to take part in the protest. With meagre food, no sleep

Dhaka's intense traffic congestion is brutal, an experience that, unfortunately, is now a daily event for Dhaka dwellers. According

The Airport road and Pragati Sarani are two of Dhaka's most important and busiest streets. Every hour, hundreds of vehicles pass

Almost a kilometre long queue of people of different ages, sweating relentlessly under the blazing sun, is an everyday sight in Agargaon. A number of curiously busy men are seen running back and forth with papers near the queue of hundreds of

Brindaban Das is one of the most acclaimed playwrights and actors in Bangladesh's entertainment industry. A veteran actor

Abdul Kader, a nine-year-old boy was cleaning the fuel chamber of a private car. Lying beneath the car's axle when Abdul opened the

The most recent national education policy of Bangladesh was enacted in 2010. Since 1971 till date, four education commission

Two men lying on the ground were helplessly trying to save their own lives. Their heart-wrenching cry for help was getting

After the partition of Indian subcontinent in 1947, when Pakistani rulers started to demean Bangali tradition by imposing Urdu and West Pakistani culture, the cultural significance of Pahela Baishakh started to resurface.

Thinking of having a quick weekend-tour outside Dhaka? Only some fifty kilometres away from the capital, Baliati Palace can be the

It is obvious that a newspaper is not the ideal place for publishing sketched portraits of unknown individuals.

Thirty five years ago today, Bangladesh lost one of its vanguards of its movement for emancipation. He is Abul Mansur Ahmad, the pioneering intellectual leader whose literary works and revolutionary thoughts have laid the foundation of an independent Bangladesh.

It was just another afternoon for Nusrat and Alvi. After a busy day at school and then spending hours with their tutor, they wanted to

The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) includes some of the most inaccessible and remotest areas of Bangladesh. There are places

Every year we celebrate International Mother Language Day with much pomp and ceremony. However, in the very heart of Bangladesh,

BANGLADESH'S vision of a knowledge-based society is shackled in the vicious cycle of falling readership and substandard publishing sector infested countless problems.

Even a few months ago most of us did not know the word Zika. Shockingly, this microscopic virus of only 40 nanometres in diameter

These are some of the photos that do not usually reach the millions of readers of the newspaper. These gigantic machines, these

Entering into this year's Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela will give you an exciting surprise. Just beside the entrance to the historic

It is 5 o'clock in the morning. The first light of dawn is still far from the Dhaka sky. Defying the dense fog and a chilly 10 degrees