When 26-year-old Tasmia Jahan would stay mostly awake, experience bouts of dizziness, gain weight, display strange cases of mood swings, suffer from anxiety attacks and suddenly burst into tears, her family thought she was just lonely and needed to get married.

Ideally footpaths are meant for pedestrians only. However in Bangladesh, having footpaths only reserved for pedestrians is an

Composer of the famous song “Aamar Bhaier Rokte Rangano” Altaf Mahmud was a musician, cultural activist, language movement activist and martyred freedom fighter during the country's liberation war. Even though this musical maestro was widely known for his

It's that time of the year again, when city dwellers are worrying about diseases spread by mosquitoes and insects. People from all walks of life are facing serious trouble due to the rise of mosquitoes, in various cities of the country.

As soon as we stepped onto the basketball court of the Center for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), we witnessed a truly

Is the number of people killed in a car bomb in the heart of the Turkish capital Ankara on Sunday and wounded 75 more, the governor's

Thirty five years ago today, Bangladesh lost one of its vanguards of its movement for emancipation. He is Abul Mansur Ahmad, the pioneering intellectual leader whose literary works and revolutionary thoughts have laid the foundation of an independent Bangladesh.

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There is a quote by Henry Brooks Adams, a famous American Historian that says, “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his

Its 5 am, and you wake up to cook breakfast, clean up, dress your children and send them to school. You go to work, and after an

The Maidan, literally meaning open field, also referred as Brigade Parade Ground is the largest urban park in Kolkata, India. It is a vast

In November of 2015, with 18 other journalists from different countries, I travelled to China to report on The One Belt, One Road

“What is the main purpose of your life?” was the most frequently asked question throughout my two and a half month journey during

“I grew up in a place where we had more trees than houses, more birds than people and more ponds than tanks! Each pond would

The 68-year-old specialist physician, Dr MB Zaman is a pioneer in the field of Histopathology and Cytopathology – used for the

I have a five year old daughter who loves to play outside and I always let her go. Luckily we have a park right next to the front gate,

Born in Sunamganj, Sylhet division on 1st September, 1918, General Muahammad Ataul Gani Osmani was the commander in chief of

Kaustubh Adhikari's name might not be familiar to many of us. But if you Google his name, you will find this 30- year-old Indian

You can literally die for saying mundane things these days. But since man insists on his freedom of speech, they must find a way to negotiate the tricky controversial waters of expression.

The number of crocodile population remaining in the rivers and canals of the Sundarbans, according to a survey jointly conducted by Bangladesh