We often lament, especially on days like our Independence Day, about how little our people (particularly the younger generation, always the younger generation) know about our history. We talk about how people conflate the day with the Language Movement,

The paradox of silence is that it only accentuates the sound of things you may not want to hear. The silence I am talking about here is the institutional refusal to acknowledge, let alone address an unsavoury truth.

The first round of the French presidential election was on April 23, 2017. This time the opinion polls were right and the results came out as predicted.

Let's face it, if there is anyone we love the most, it's ourselves. It is probably the biggest waste of human cells to have a pair of ears –

Very often, we walk away from our losses and just expect to recover. Well, we don't. Memories last forever, especially if they are torturous in nature and form. The best way is to work around the pain and address it the way we ought to.

Possibility of war in the Korean Peninsula has always been a source of deep concern. The peninsula came to be divided along the 38th

The readymade garments (RMG) sector of Bangladesh has undertaken significant compliance measures to ensure safety of factories...

Yet another Pahela Baishakh, the 1424th in fact, with lots of fanfare, merriment and of course hullabaloo came to pass. But one matter was confined in deafening silence for the second year running – the 20 percent bonus (of basic pay) for employees of all government, autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions disbursed as per a gazette.

When a mother claims that her son could have achieved a grade of A though he actually earned B+, we understand the son performed below his potential and did not work to his fullest capacity for the test.

This is because the US War Powers Resolution act only authorises the President to introduce US Armed Forces into hostilities...

My show hosts in Dallas, Texas treat me to a sumptuous biryani dinner. Being a wise man with an early morning flight the following

This article has been animated by a comment of Sean Spicer, the constantly self-destructing White House press secretary.

Apart of the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change, agreed in 2015, was the pledge by developed countries to provide a...

Bangladesh-India relations are not only multifaceted but also very complex. Currently, political understanding between Prime Minister...

Social sector budget traditionally receives less attention amidst big allocation for the hardware part of the economy. Infrastrucutre,

A lot has been made of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to India. After all, it was her first bilateral visit to the neighbouring country in seven years.

We ‘gloriously' occupied the 125th position among 136 nations of the world in the Tourism Competitive Index 2017 – we have been ranked the worst place to visit in South Asia.

The Pahela Baishakh festivities bring out the best in us Bangladeshis. Apart from its creative and cultural aspects, Pahela Baishakh

Bangladesh's long dynamic relationship with India has many facets, ranging from economic to social to political.

I have to admit that after all these years of marriage, I still haven't given my wife the legendary football sized, ok, cricket ball sized, ok, ping pong ball sized, ok, marble sized, ok, pellet sized diamond ring.