Imagine a small family in Dhaka: two working parents, two school-age children, and a modest apartment with a decade-old refrigerator, a forty-inch television, a thirty-litre storage geyser and several incandescent bulbs.

Dr Rabbee's Morris Minor car stands as one of the most powerful symbols of his bravery. He used it to transport injured freedom fighters, deliver medicines, and quietly support underground networks.

Rashidul Hasan was a beloved teacher of English at Dhaka University and a fearless believer in the rights of his people.

Her commitment to service soon extended beyond medicine.

A former professor of Biochemistry at the University of Dhaka, he later served as Principal Scientific Officer at the Science Laboratories in Dhaka, where his research and leadership marked him as a rising scholar of exceptional promise.

Behind prison walls, Kaiser turned confinement into creation.

When the Liberation War erupted, Raihan crossed into Kolkata—not to retreat, but to fight with his camera.

The letter was both personal intimidation and a symbol of the regime’s determination to silence intellectual resistance.

Abdul Muktadir was a gifted geologist and a deeply admired teacher at Dhaka University.

During the First World War, he served in the Royal British Army, fought in Iraq with the Bengal Infantry (Bengali Paltan), and later joined the 1919 Victory March in London, where he was awarded the prestigious Sword of Honour.

At dawn on 16 December, Rashid Talukder set out to take photographs with Michel Laurent, an American photographer from the Associated Press.

From the bustling streets of Nairobi to the serene Maasai villages and even the sun-kissed shores of Diani Beach, one thing was clear: everyone uses mobile money.

TDS: The Women’s Affairs Reforms Commission made 423 recommendations. How much has been implemented?

Every generation inherits new rights to defend. This Human Rights Day, Bangladesh confronts a frontier expanding faster than laws or institutions can manage: the digital world.

Bangladesh now needs a government prepared to confront long-standing issues such as custodial torture, extrajudicial killings, and border violence instead of repeating earlier patterns of inaction, rights activist ASM Nasiruddin Elan has said.

Years of political hostility and the misuse of state agencies have kept political violence alive in Bangladesh, and only a newly elected government with the goodwill to act can break this cycle, said human rights activist Nur Khan Liton.

Justice and accountability for the egregious human rights violations of the past is crucial, but the challenge lies in ensuring this is not done by repeating patterns of reprisal and retaliation, warned Sara Hossain, a senior lawyer at the Supreme Court, as she spoke about the role of political parties in protecting human rights.

ASK reports 29 deaths in 11 months till November this year

Human rights are “everyday essentials” for a functioning society -- the pillars of security, justice, and expression that people rely upon daily.

Noor Mohammad’s ambition extends far beyond his own fields. He sees his work as a solution to a national problem