During the fall of 2009, a young 20-year-old participated in a winter cloth distribution campaign in his hometown Saidpur and was left baffled.

“Poka” is a Bangla word for insects. It is also the name of a social enterprise initiative taken by three young entrepreneurs. The lead entrepreneur, Md Mehedi Hasan, explained the reason behind choosing the name.

On Wednesday morning, the comfortable cabins of the top floor of Bangladesh Eye Hospital were cleaned, aired and the floors were mopped extensively for the arrivals of guests.

Project Trishna is a volunteer-driven social venture created by Footsteps Foundation, a youth-based social enterprise. Its aim is simple: to provide free access to clean drinking water for the general public, especially the low income groups.

My three-year-old niece giggles when I tell her the story of the dragon, Ree Fu Zang, who rose from a lake to save the world.

You might have a preconceived notion that Instagram is a social network consisting solely of selfies and badly cropped pictures of food...

To me, he was a man who loved my country like I did, who had the same concerns as any levelheaded and educated citizen...

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the death penalty of banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activist

Thousands of years before the fancy term surfaced, startups have been agents of social and economic progress.

The one thing that every event has in common is the volunteers. Without volunteers, organizing a successful event is next to impossible.

These words spoken by the writer about the fame of her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, ring in my ears as numerous sites flooded with the news of her recent demise: Author Harper Lee, aged 89, dies in sleep. The wound is fresh and raw enough to incite Hannibal Lecter.

Among the many things Facebook has made easy is business.

This is the umpteenth time I have erased every word and started to rewrite this article.

The Telenor Youth Forum 2015, which concluded in December of last year, brought back the highly popular arena for debate, discussion and experience sharing. This time, the Telenor team scoured through 13 countries with Telenor’s presence to find 25 of the brightest young minds.

A necessary and common appliance in the Bangladeshi household is the stove. The stove that is used is usually a single or double burner, depending on the requirement.

“It's easy to find your passion, really. You have to identify what attracts you – to the point that you start feeling selfishly possessive about it,”

Teen Tekka is a radio show on Colours FM101.6 for the teenagers of Bangladesh. It is the first of its kind and airs every Tuesday night at 11 PM.

We shush girls into acceptance, a reminder for them to know that harassment is only normative and something as fundamental as speaking out ...

I've been following LinkedIn Pulse for a while. It's amazing to see how the great social media giants are battling it out in the “era of customers” through innovative strategies of empowering, engaging and connecting customers. This is the 4th installment of my series on innovation.

Detective Branch (DB) of Police on Monday night arrested a youth from Singair upazila for his alleged involvements in robbery and drug