Thus, reads an article published on BBC News World Edition by the BBC Reporter in Dhaka, Alastair Lawson. It paints a bleak picture of the people at the helm of Dhaka’s ‘lowest’ form of transport—the cycle rickshaw. Considering the propensity of articles that cover a

The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is.”

Growing up in Bailey Road, Shagor Publishers was the place for me. It was owned by the renowned writer M.R. Akhter Mukul who started the shop as a sort of a glorified book club. He would sit on a stool at the small entrance where he would greet readers. If I inquired of a

This letter is in reference to the cover story “How independent and effective is the NHRC?” published last week.

Just one paisa of the gas bill being paid by a consumer, means Tk 35 crores in revenue for the utility companies.

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

Our education policies are based on the three divisions—science, arts, and commerce. This is why so many of our youth are leaving the country. Abolish this policy; we’re neither giving proper education or the budget to expand/improve our science and technology sector

This is outrageous if Pathao couldn’t ensure such quality. I always wonder why, in most of the cases, Bangladeshi companies can’t keep the standards that they set at the beginning of their journey. Either they don’t know how to be stable in the long run or they are just

When it comes to allegations of human rights violations against law enforcement agencies, the NHRC claims that its hands are tied in investigating themselves and it can only ask for reports from the government.

On June 13, 2019, each of us received frantic messages from our queer community friends in Bangladesh. One of the messages said, “Another fiasco! Please someone… email her and ask her to stop this madness.” The “madness” was referring to a recently minted

Many of the animals at the Bangladesh National Zoo are passing days with immense suffering. With poor medical care, scarce food and congested cages, the captive animals look so miserable and weak that seeing them is not exactly fun for all the visitors. However, the zoo, located in a sprawling 186 acres of land in Dhaka's Mirpur section, is the 4th largest in the world in terms of area. With two picturesque lakes, a museum, two camping sites, huge gardens and orchards, this zoo has the potential to be one of the best in the world.

Earlier this week, a series of posters promoting the upcoming ‘Visit Nepal 2020’ appeared in the Underground (Tube) stations in London.

The Longqiao Cultural and Ecological Park in Sichuan, China, was due to reopen soon, but is now forced to stay closed for the remainder of the year after Chinese tourists picked all of its lotus flowers.

A museum housing fragments of imagination willed into solid reality by the ambition of Kawsar Chowdhury, Green Furniture, on Dhaka’s Pragati Sarani, is the definition of atypical. Expanding the capabilities of a mere furniture store, this is where art is juxtaposed

Myanmar has granted early release to the soldiers who were jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men and boys during the 2017 military crackdown in Rakhine.

“You will never look like the girl in the magazine. The girl in the magazine doesn’t even look like the girl in the magazine.”

Aklima is the eldest daughter of a family in Mymensingh. Her father works as a vegetable vendor; her mother occasionally helps out, but during Aklima’s childhood, she mostly stayed at home, grooming her to impress prospective husbands.

It was while shopping for jewellery for my wedding last year that I realised just how much of the gold in the glitzy, gilded shops are possibly smuggled.

Researchers in Scotland say gray seals can copy the sounds of human words and songs including “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.”

Any form of television or literature targeted towards female young adults have a few tried and tested tropes—protagonist gets a