Shahtub Siddique Anik

It was on World Press Freedom Day when Monorom Polok had to see his photojournalist father handcuffed and jailed.

It was like wooing customers to have kebab and biriyani at popular Bihari restaurants. Only a few steps into the Camper Bazar, youths in small groups were looking for potential customers, holding packets full of pink tablets.

An assassin shot him in the head at close range as he was about to leave Yangon airport in his family car. He fell to the ground, bleeding.

It's called Valentine's Day.

He is a good friend of mine, not just a companion from my university days. He is an honest man and he never indulged in corruption as far as my knowledge goes. He has been in the civil administration for quite a few years now.

As legal channels for labour migration from Bangladesh have shrunk due to malpractices in the arrangements by both private agencies and the government, desperate jobseekers take dangerous sea route to Malaysia.

We were not surprised when she reached the tin-roof house in Pallabi to console slain blogger Rajib's mother on the February 16 afternoon in 2013.

Over 10 thousand samples of more than 50 different food items were tested at the Institute of Public Health in 2012-13.  About 60 percent of the samples were found adulterated or contaminated