Nilratan Halder 2018-03-09 20:28:16
On the eve of the International Women's Day, this city was witness to a number of sexual assaults on girls. In one such incident a girl student forced to walk on because of scarce transports was encir...
Nilratan Halder 2018-03-03 00:22:48
One of the tiniest insects, mosquito has many feats to its credit. A poignant story of its lethal power concerns the insects' mission to enter into the brains of Nimrod, a tyrant and disbeliever livin...
Md. Atikur Rahman 2018-03-03 00:21:54
The free flow of information and its sharing are the basic element of modern democracy. It plays a special role in increasing public awareness and making the right decisions. In the nineties, the then...
Pamelia Khaled 2018-03-03 00:20:48
Question leaks at the every level of Bangladesh's education system have panicked the students, parents and the civil society. What is happening actually? How can it be stopped? Why does it need to be...
Shara Arzooman 2018-03-03 00:19:53
Russia lately declared a 'truce' (ceasefire or a pause of five hours on daily basis) to stop fresh violence and deadly bombardments in Eastern Ghouta of Syria. However, even after such a humane and as...
Shahidul Islam 2018-02-24 00:00:00
People are using education as a tool for bettering their lifestyle. The aim of life cannot be materialised, if one fails to identify the aim of education. Education is the way to reach the goal of lif...
Asjadul Kibria 2018-02-24 00:00:00
When the month-long Ekushey Book Fair is going on amid a lot of enthusiasm, a very few people know that a library played a vital role in shaping up the concept of book fair in the country. The library...
Nazim Iqbal 2018-02-24 00:00:00
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) in a report recently raised its forecast on Bangladesh's rice import to 3.4 million tonnes in 2017-18, which is more than double its earlier prediction of 1.6 m...
Nilratan Halder 2018-02-24 00:00:00
What kind of life the average citizens the world over aspire for? A life that is successful, may be. Successful but on which count? It is mostly success from the materialistic point of view. But there...
Muhammad Abdul Mazid 2018-02-20 21:43:47
The Bengali Language Movement which gave birth to the incident of 21st February in 1952, known popularly as Ekushey, sixty six years ago was a socio-political-cultural attempt in the then East P...
Forqan Uddin Ahmed 2018-02-20 21:25:03
Since 2000, February 21 is observed globally as the International Mother Language Day. This follows the decision made at the 30th General Conference of the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cul...
Muhammad Quamrul Islam 2018-02-20 21:19:35
History was on the making when students in Dhaka, capital of erstwhile East Pakistan, brought out processions on February 21, 1952, demanding Bengali as a state language, which was spoken by the major...
Nilratan Halder 2018-02-16 23:58:07
What a time! Two consecutive days' celebration of colour. First the yellow heralds the month of Falgun, the onset of the season of Spring in this part of the world. The next day is Valentine's Day --...
Naimul Haq 2018-02-16 23:57:15
Although Bangladesh has made remarkable recent strides like building green factories and meeting stringent safety standards, garment workers here are still paid one of the lowest minimum wages in the...
P. R. Datta 2018-02-16 23:55:54
Over the past decade, the story of the Bangladesh retail industry has been nothing less than a revolution shaped and developed by high quality service provisions, world class design and sizeable local...
Media OutReach 2018-02-16 23:54:54
One of the most elusive dating tactics since the beginning of time has to be 'playing hard to get'. While Socrates famously advised courtesan Theodote to boost her attraction by withholding her affect...
Nilratan Halder 2018-02-10 00:01:39
The killing of a man under the wheel of a BMW car speeding recklessly on the wrong side of the road made news in some of the newspapers. But it did not create more than a few ripples. The man who was...
Rafiqul Islam Sarker in Chatra, Rangpur 2018-02-09 23:58:18
Just before sundown on Jan. 30, a group of women day labourers from the Shantal indigenous community are in a rush to wind up their work harvesting potatoes in a field in the village of Boldipukur, so...
Md. Mazadul Hoque 2018-02-09 00:00:00
Once upon a time, not so long ago, the people had always been watchful waiting for delivery of money through the postmaster or Runner. This had been in vogue for decades. Then this had been the lone m...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman 2018-02-09 00:00:00
Switzerland has all the elements to generate envy among other nations. It is a heaven of democracy, governance and integrity where rule of law reigns supreme. On the other hand, as a nation the Swiss...
Nilratan Halder 2018-02-03 00:16:10
The venue is the grassy open lawn of the Teachers and Students Centre (TSC) of the University of Dhaka. Someone bald-headed from among the crowd comes forward to embrace you. Overcoming the disbelief...
Asjadul Kibria 2018-02-03 00:14:53
They all gathered there to welcome her back. Despite being a brilliant Nazrul Sangeet exponent, she had stayed out of the limelight for almost two decades. But the solo musical evening at a cosy corne...
Mohammad Tarikul Islam 2018-02-03 00:12:04
Human security, a non-conventional security, denotes the human dignity. The term human security propagated by UNDP in the post-cold war era is intended to focus on individuals coming across values and...
Prottoya D.S Chowdhury 2018-02-03 00:10:51
As citizens are living in a globalised world where physical distance is not a limiting factor to dissemination of information, it is appalling to note that we attach little importance to the mutilatio...
Nilratan Halder 2018-01-20 12:20:46
Purnima Rani Sheel, the girl from Ullapara in Sirajganj, has conquered the evil of the vilest form. The 14-year old girl's transition from the most abject state of life to a woman of 32 years and the...
Mohammad Tarikul Islam 2018-01-20 12:19:45
Bangladesh, a country of tropical weather, enjoys moderate winter. Conversely in the last couple of years we witnessed numerous cold waves during winter in the country. Cold wave causes serious suffer...
Md Nahidujjaman 2018-01-20 12:18:53
What do you do first when you wake up? For many teenagers the answer will be checking the facebook. Currently the facebook is a family of more than 2.0 billion active users and teenagers. Even f...
Maruf Zakaria 2018-01-20 12:17:47
Greeks were great builders. They developed their structure and architecture through many stages of Greek civilization. The architecture of ancient Greece is the architecture produced by the Greek-spea...
K.A.S. Murshid 2018-01-11 08:11:15
The Istanbul Programme of Action set a difficult goal in 2011, namely to quicken the pace of LDC graduation and reduce the number of Least Developed Countries (LDCs) by half by 2020. That goal is clea...
Nilratan Halder 2018-01-06 12:11:34
That Bangladesh came within a whisker of winning the Country of the Year title is likely to produce a mixed feeling among its people. Mixed feeling because of the near miss and the solace that the cou...
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