I go for a photography outing whenever I can, frequenting Ramna Park the most, as it is closest to my house. Next to Ramna, lies the

Caught in the mosaic of day-to-day concerns, it's not always that one can appreciate the bigger picture: how much the future is with

It is the year 1971. Standing beside a green paddy field, Yahya Khan and a Razakar are locked in a heated deabate against a Bengali farmer.

Spider, snake and scorpion: all creatures, regardless of how attractive or appealing they are to the human eye, are worthy of

I escape from this concrete jungle called Dhaka whenever I can. Living in this unplanned city for a length of time renders one listless.

In the last one year, two Bangladeshi products—Jamdani and Hilsa—received Geographical Indications (GI) from the Department of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (DPDT). The DPDT is currently working on analysing 24 more goods.

Every morning a sweet cacophony of songs signals the rise of the sun in a corner of Saheber Haat village under Barisal Sadar upazila. This

In the 1950s there were as many as 50,000 rhesus macaques that called Madaripur town home. The rhesus macaque is one of the

Unlike winter, monsoon is a quiet season for bird-watchers and travellers but the season holds its own beauty. For nature lovers, it's a

The Santhal Rebellion led to a calculated genocide by the British army who burned down hundreds of villages and killed and raped over 15,000 Santhals to quash their resistance.

“Hurry up, you are going to get left behind!” The source of the voice vanished behind the uncountable humongous green grasses. They

A hunting party found a flock of five large birds feeding at the braided Jamuna river towards the end of December last year. For years

At a time when it's all but impossible to organise large-scale events without corporate sponsorship, the Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA), popularly known as the Charukola

The teak plantation in Sagardighee area of Tangail's Ghatail upazila had been a safe haven for different species of bats for decades but their number is on decline.

Captured by tea-labourers in Fulchhari Tea Estate of Srimangal, a small black mole was rescued and brought to Sitesh Dev's

Apart from the beautiful sandy beach that makes Kuakata one of the top tourist destinations, it has many other things to offer.

Mango trees in the district are adorned with bunches of flowers amid favourbale weather this year, and the sweet smell of the flowers

These days, when information technology and the internet are not far from our grasp, on hearing the name “Bangladesh Betar (Betar meaning radio in Bangla)”, one might ask, “Who would listen to Bangladesh Betar today?”

Cave is an underground hollow space, primitive homes of Stone Age hominid, sacred cultural and religious heritage. Popular Bangla names of cave are “guha” and “surang” and it is one of the rare ecosystems in the hill ranges of greater Sylhet, Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts and Cox's Bazaar.

Once upon a time, it used to mark the terminus of the largest city of undivided Bengal; currently it lies uncared for, surrounded by