On 26th January, 2017, different socio-political organisations -- mostly backed by the left wing political parties -- called upon a strike in protest of the construction of the Rampal power plant.

27th January, 1945. Victorious Soviet troops entered into a deserted and destroyed the Polish town Auschwitz.

A major success that the Bangladesh government can boast about is the distribution of millions of copies of textbooks to school children on the first day of every New Year.

It was nearly midnight when we finally conceded to the fact that Donald Trump is the President-elect of the United States.

November 12, 2016. Two helicopter gunships of Myanmar's armed forces emptied their rocket pods and machine guns into tiny villages of Rohingya Muslims at the country's Rakhine state, killing hundreds of the villagers and making thousands of them homeless refugees.

We were mercilessly flogged; our houses were burnt and bulldozed over. They looted everything - our last valuables and also our food.

It was the end of the Second World War. Bennito Mussolini's government collapsed in 1943 and with it fell down the glorious Italian film industry.

Fourteen-year-old Suraiya Akter Risha was just another Dhaka teen – a happy child who would plan a fun weekend with friends and family members, a top achiever at school, maybe even a crazy cricket fan and a music lover – she was just another girl from next doors.

We live in a materialised world where our lives revolve around technology. From reading books to means of communication, every little aspect of our lives is slowly being controlled by the machinery we build.

Theodore Roosevelt warns, “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

An old man of around eighty years of age is often seen crying. Sitting at the balcony of their small apartment, the heartbroken old man is waiting, in vain, for his only granddaughter—who was raped and killed four months ago. “I believe Tonu has not died.

Globally, the tobacco epidemic is considered to be the most prominent preventable cause of death, responsible for taking lives of an

I have read reports in The Daily Star as well as in the Prothom Alo about a discussion held in Dhaka on 27th March 2016 by

‘It could've been my sister, it could've been my mother, it could've been me'. Every time the media reports on a story of a woman's rape,

In a couple of days from now, the country will commemorate the day lives were lost in 1952 to preserve the Bengali language and, more

What do you think about journalism? Reporter collects information, interviews sources, sorts the information and then the final copy of

It had been almost a year and a half since I had been home. Home, noun- the place where one lives permanently, especially as a

Picture a scenario where Mustafizur Rahman, the mercurial new addition to the Bangladeshi cricket team, claims a hattrick in the penultimate over of a game...

When the Awami League came to power in 2008, it was amidst the backdrop of a real possibility of military rule entrenching once ...

November 3, 1975. At around 4 am some soldiers with full combat postures demanded entrance into Dhaka Central Jail. Seeing the armed men, the baffled jail officials, called the then Deputy Inspector General of Prisons (DIG, Prison) Abdul Awal. Abdul became