"All hell broke loose there, they made it look like doomsday," recalls Motaher Hossain, general secretary of the Krishak League, who was standing barely a yard from the dais raised on a truck when indiscriminate bombs and gunshots rocked the area.

In just one year, Madeline Stuart, an 18-year-old with Down syndrome, has become the face of two fashion campaigns.

Playing Tetris for just three minutes can reduce cravings for drugs, food, cigarettes, alcohol and sex, scientists find.

A rare white humpback whale is spotted off the coast of Queensland, and whale watchers are hoping it is Australia's famous whale Migaloo.

A portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was installed at the capital's Jatiya Press Club yesterday for the

Siri - Apple's voice-activated assistant - saves the life of Tennessee teenager after he was pinned underneath his truck and unable to reach his phone.

Justice is yet to be delivered in the cases filed in connection with the murders of Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni and Abdur Rab Serniabat,

Despite repeated requests from Bangladesh to send him back, the United States granted political asylum to one of the six absconding killers of Bangabandhu a few years ago.

Accompanied by a dozen armed soldiers Major Dalim had stormed into the office of Gen Shafiullah, the then chief of army, in the morning of August 15, 1975.

It was around 11:30pm. A Dodge car screeched to a halt before the ammunition store of the 2nd Field Artillery in the moonless night of August 14.

A cafe in the Philippines is giving disabled people in the area a chance to succeed in life and break down stigma in the process.

Whenever there is a crisis, there is a challenge faced by the nation; the youth of Bangladesh have come forward.

The world is going through speedy urbanisation and Bangladesh is not an exception from this.

Today, concrete structures are rising up, as if conscious of their aggressive contest to outgrow their neighbours, ever inclined to reach the highest skies while casting their grey gloom on the forgotten earth below.

The lack of playing fields in our city has been a major reason for concern among Dhakaites, especially for parents and children.

There is an apparent apathy in the nation's collective psyche towards the most precious lives of our society, the very soul of our future-- our children. Even unwittingly depriving our children of their physical and psychological nurture is a form of abuse.

Every year during the rainy season, landslides kill thousands of people in the hilly areas of our country.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested an arms peddler with one foreign made pistol, four bullets and one magazine at Adatala

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Monira Emdad has been elected president and Sharmin Hossain general secretary of Business and Professional Women's Club Dhaka, says