An estimated 64 lakh people in the country suffer from depressive disorder while 69 lakh from anxiety disorders, says a new study of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

A group of teenagers spray-painted a historically black school with racist and anti-Semitic messages recently in Virginia. The judge, as reported by the Huffington Post on February 7, 2017, served the young men an unusual punishment: writing reports on a list of books and movies, besides also visiting a Holocaust museum and doing research on the swastika.

The country has already become a lower middle-income country. So far so good! However, these indexes don't always tell us the whole truth about the states of governance, corruption, poverty, inequality, and most importantly, frequent violations of human rights across the country.

Gazi Kamrus Salam Sohan went to Syria in December 2014 to join Islamic State, believing he was answering a holy call. But after a five-month stay in the war-torn country, he got disillusioned as he learnt that the terror group kills Muslims as well.

Mongla Port is no Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle in the Atlantic Ocean, where several ships and also aircraft are said to have mysteriously vanished. But when it comes to ships full of fertiliser, they can disappear under equally mysterious circumstances from this port in southern Bangladesh, about 14,000km east of Bermuda Triangle.

Climate change funds are allocated under the influence of ministers and powerful quarters, not considering the severity of risk and

Over the recent backlash of the erroneous content and apparently mysterious changes to the curriculum, the education minister on January 10 stated during a press briefing, “I'm not avoiding my responsibility, but I'm leaving the matter to you whether handing over such a volume of textbooks is a bigger thing than these errors,” to which, the answer is an obvious yes.

After Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu came to power in 1965, he called himself "The Genius of the Carpathians". He had even

With a fifth of the country's yearly jute exports at stake following India's imposition of anti-dumping duty on import of jute products from Bangladesh and Nepal, a national jute advisory committee meeting yesterday decided to engage immediately with India for lifting the duty.

While Alan and Mohammed hail from different countries, the circumstances which led to their premature deaths are very similar, and sadly, all too frequent. Both the Syrian war and the Rohingya tragedy see no end in sight.

Russian leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, in their spare time, used to make fun of Western sympathisers who blindly supported them.

A devastating fire reduced much of the DCC Market at Gulshan-1 to rubble yesterday. No one was killed or hurt in the blaze that swept through the two-storey building for about 16 hours since around 2:00am. But over 300 shops were gutted and a portion of the market collapsed on impact, causing losses worth several hundred of crores of taka.

After police cordoned off the Ashkona militant hideout early Saturday, Maynul Musa instructed his wife Trisha Moni to wear a suicide vest and blow up herself along with their four-month-old daughter instead of surrendering to law enforcers.

Christmas, the biggest religious festival of the Christian community, is called Borodin in Bangla. The Santal community calls it Sorhai, which is

From the very top, I think I should make it clear that living in the snowy apocalyptic hell of Toronto, I do use Uber from time to time.

The month of December in Bangladesh is a time of remembrance and reflection. The country's independence in that month in 1971 was followed by a yearning to memorialise the heroism and sacrifice of the freedom fighters.

The most fascinating insight notebandi provides is to the Narendra Modi government's approach to exercise of state power, political and economic ideology.

For netizens of the time, postage stamps are mere remnants of history. Almost every Bangladeshi, 30 and above, will recollect fond memories of this collecting pursuit and their prized stamp album, but to the younger generation philately no longer bears any special meaning.

Because of preconceived romanticised notions of the 'revolutionary intellectual', the role of traditional intellectuals who unflinchingly lent their support to government war efforts and propaganda is often overlooked. It is important to remember that the term 'intellectual' isn't synonymous with a 'force for good'.

Life in Kalatia was calm and relaxed basking in the breezy spring days back in 1971. And it was only natural for a quiet