It was only the other day, some six decades after my mother's family left Pakistan, that I learnt about how they travelled to India in the aftermath of Partition.

A special train was arranged for Mr Appu's family and all of the workers in his father's factory to migrate from Lucknow.

Ten years ago I met Gazi in Bangladesh's Satkhira region, in a small island called Koikhali. He had come with his immediate family about 60 years back, at the stroke of midnight, with nothing but the clothes on his back.

"It took me a long time to realise that my family and I, like every other citizen of the current state of Bangladesh, were directly and indirectly a by-product of the Partition to the extent that even our daily struggles sometimes evolved around it," writes Meghna Guhathakurta.

An Indian court gives a woman permission to divorce her husband because their home did not have a toilet, forcing her to seek relief outdoors.

Incarcerated in the camps in (West) Pakistan after the surrender of General Niazi and the capture of over 90,000 Pakistani soldiers, the Bengali Armed Forces Officers and their families counted the days and months as they eagerly awaited repatriation to their newly liberated motherland.

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The number of students pursuing science is decreasing at an alarming rate

The article titled 'How safe are our schools?' published in the Star Weekend on August 4, showed us that we have willingly blindfolded ourselves about the vulnerable condition of fire safety in our educational institutions.

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." — Frederick Douglass

A Canadian woman who lost her engagement ring 13 years ago while weeding her garden on the family farm is wearing it proudly again after her daughter-in-law pulled it from the ground on a misshapen carrot.

A giant tortoise that made a break from a Japanese zoo is found safe and sound two weeks after it escaped -- just 140 metres from the park.

For a few days this week a goat will be king of a small town in Ireland's rural south west.

Sazeda visits every home in the village regularly and educates parents and other family members about the harmful effects of child marriage and the importance of educating female children.

With no democratic student governments in private universities, what recourse do students really have?

Dhaka University in its golden era of students' organised movement contributed to upholding the democratic values and rights of citizens whenever peace was endangered and democracy threatened throughout the history of Bangladesh.

“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”

The fatal shootings of several cows in southeastern New Mexico spark fears of a serial cattle killer running loose.

With rising urbanisation and rapid industrialisation in Bangladesh, the demand for electricity has increased and the pressure on resources is burgeoning.

With cities, it is as with dreams: everything imaginable can be dreamed, but even the most unexpected dream is a rebus that conceals a desire or, its reverse, a fear.