“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda

This week's spotlight (Published on April 24, 2015) has perfectly portrayed the true scenario about how women are being molested in our country regularly.

Every summer, outbreak of waterborne diseases in Dhaka takes an epidemic form. What is the solution?

Sexual harassment, thankfully enough, has now become a topic of discussion amongst peers.

On April 25, 2015 a healthcare awareness programme was organised by the Dhaka Club, where two renowned doctors from Malaysia, cardiologist Dr Balachandan Kandasamy and orthopaedic and spine surgeon Dr Abdul Hadi Husin were invited to speak about their areas of expertise and the facilities available at their respective institutions to treat these illnesses.

As we have seen and experienced in the past few days, massive earthquakes like the ones that nearly demolished the entire country of Nepal, can turn lives upside down in the blink of an eye.

The April 25 quake measured 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale, the largest since the 1934 Bihar quake, which measured 8.2 and killed around 10,000 people. Another quake in Kashmir in 2005, measuring 7.6, killed around 80,000 people.

Renowned broadcaster and cultural personality Iqbal Bahar Choudhury has represented Bangladesh, and our language and culture in the

Rina Akther, a 16 year-old domestic worker begins her day at the break of dawn.

One moment she is seen in an apron, shoes and hat, climbing a ladder to check whether the machineries are working right, the next moment she is seen supervising a team of male workers in the manufacturing wing.

Appeared in over 90 films, an American actor and film producer Robert De Niro is famous for his role as young Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974).

In just 405 years, since Galileo first chose to point a telescope up rather than forward, humankind has made incredible strides in space

Two days after the Pahela Baishakh incident this year, I was crossing a foot-bridge to go to work near Farmgate.

Jesmin Ehsan is yet another young professional working in Dhaka who has completed the strategic level of CIMA, becoming the top scorer

My daughter studies in class 5, in a well reputed school in Dhanmondi.

As citizens of Bangladesh, one of the few privileges we have is to vote. Every election morning, people all across the nation get ready to make a difference. We get ready to finally matter in a country where political wars cloud our presence all year around. On this day,

She tried to balance the 3-year-old on her hips.

How many of you remember the eight scalloped, wavy 10 poisha coin with a symbolic happy family image in the middle? What about the octagonal shaped 50 poisha with a bunch of food items like fish, hen, pineapple and banana on it?

Recently, there has been a rise in animal trading, in the country, where many people bring in foreign breeds and sell them. The traders,

To protest the heinous crime of sexual harassment that had taken place on Pahela Baishakh, groups of cartoonists launched a unique