Last week as I went to the hospital to collect data on the rate of infant mortality, I was a little shocked to hear the yelling of women in the maternity ward.

Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima, commonly known as Ronaldo, is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who cemented the reputation as one of the greatest football players of all time.

I call them kingfishers for a reason. The way they perched on their bikes wearing their turquoise and blue attires waiting for their catch in the middle of the streets can only be compared to the majestic birds waiting on small fries.

What are you taking on in your lives? Why are you here? What are the big things that you are going to tackle?

The amount of taka in fake notes that has been seized from a gang of currency counterfeiters during a raid in the capital. Like every year, money counterfeiters are active ahead of Eid-ul-Adha when people spend money for buying cattle.

This week, we have lost one of our finest -- a person whose poems started a new revolution in terms of urban poetry.

“If The Government Is Going To Mandate Levels And Punish Schools For Failing, They Should Send That Money To The School System.”

Guillotine is one of the most renowned devices of execution, which became a symbol of judicial execution in France.

A James Cook University scientist says a new map of the ecological footprint of humankind shows 97 per cent of the most species-rich places on Earth have been seriously altered.

If you constantly strive to give your best effort, you will be able to bring your dream to life. This is the mantra of Dipankar Das, the owner of Baatighar, one of the most beloved bookstores of the country.

A couple of weeks ago, right before the HSC and A level results were announced nation wide, Asaduzzaman Noor, the Minister of Cultural Affairs in Bangladesh, spoke at a gathering about how, one must start to think out of the box when it comes to grades...

I was in my office in Lotus Kamal tower-2, busy doing my usual office work, when suddenly I felt a heavy tremor.

Carlos Irwin Estévez, popularly known by his stage name Charlie Sheen, is an American actor.

Showing an unusual plant species, 8-year-old Subah Salam desperately asks her mother, “What is the name of this tree?” Her mother Shahrina Salam (35) eagerly introduces the Ulatkambal plant (one kind of medicinal plant) to her daughter, and shows some interesting looking cactus to her as well.

There's this absolutely brilliant ad on TV, that starts with a girl taking her mother out to a fancy hotel after getting her first salary.

71+ is the number of people killed in Yemeni city of Aden. An explosives-laden car rammed into an army recruiting centre in 29th August, 2016 and the explosion killed more than 71 people and injured another 98 people. It is the deadliest terrorist attack on any Yemeni city in over a year.

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.

The first time I saw The Vagina Monologues being performed, was at a women's day event in Yorkshire in 2009.

On the occasion of the 40th death anniversary of Kazi Nazrul Islam, a major exponent of Nazrul and a famous Bangladeshi singer of Nazrul compositions, Sadya Afreen Mallick was recently awarded the Nazrul Award 2015.

There are more than fifty restaurants, countless food carts in Satmasjid Road of Dhaka's Dhanmondi neighbourhood alone.