NUMBERS 8

Is the number of people who were killed and many injured as a truck helper, filling in for the trucker, lost control over the wheel and ploughed through a crowd in Alutila of Khagrachhari last Friday.
9 February 2017

Do Doctors Need Handwriting Classes Now?

Do you remember the times you got a prescription that looked like bad artwork? That is a doctor's handwriting. But why is it so bad? And do they need handwriting classes?
9 February 2017

MAILBOX

I felt so proud to know that Bangladesh organises Asia's first and the largest photography festival every year.
9 February 2017

SNAPSHOT

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.” – Anne Brontë, Author
9 February 2017

From Barter to Banknotes, All in One

You may have heard that eight maund (around 295 kg) of processed rice could be bought with one taka coin in the reign of Shaista Khan (popularly known as Shaista Khan-er Aamol).
9 February 2017

TRENDING THIS WEEK

Travelers from the seven Muslim majority countries can now travel to the US, as a federal judge in Seattle suspended President Donald Trump's travel ban.
9 February 2017

PEARLS OF WISDOM

“GIVE ME A MUSEUM AND I'LL FILL IT. “
9 February 2017

Indian doctor pulls live cockroach from woman's head

It's the stuff of nightmares -- a cockroach crawls up your nose in the middle of the night, burrows in and drives you mad with scratching behind your eyes. But for one Indian woman, this horror story proved all too real.
9 February 2017

Combining Dancing and Direction

“I’m nervous,” were the first words that director and writer of the film Gohin Balu Chor, Badrul Anam Saud, said during the press launch of the cinema. While he said that, all I could think was, “YOU'RE nervous?? What about me???”
2 February 2017

The Discovery of Time Crystals

Recently physicists have discovered a whole new form of matter, It is four dimensional matter called time crystal. Normal crystals, like diamonds, are an atomic lattice that repeats in space.
2 February 2017

Life without Oxygen

There is a long established idea that oxygen is the prerequisite element for the creation of life on earth.
2 February 2017

PEARLS OF WISDOM

“YOUR PHOTOGRAPHY IS A RECORD OF YOUR LIVING, FOR ANYONE WHO REALLY SEES. “
2 February 2017

Growing Up With Pen and Paper: Masud Pathik's journey as a writer

“A writer has to accept the fact that people will be against them.” This is a fact, stated and accepted by Bangladeshi film director, lyricist and poet, Masud Pathik.
2 February 2017

The Festival Prepares

“The global photography spotlight is on Bangladesh. The stars are arriving at our doorstep. It is now up to Bangladeshis to step up the podium. The world of photography beckons.” – Shahidul Alam
2 February 2017

STAR DIARY

I have always been an avid reader. When smart phones started taking over our lives, I became very agitated finding people around me looking at their phone screens all the time.
2 February 2017

Humayun Azad

Abu Kaiser, one of his fellow students in the department of Bangla, Dhaka University, remembers Azad as the student who used to don "a Bonde Ali Miah-like hair-do" and "whose reticence belied his intelligence and his goonpona (creativity)".
2 February 2017

NUMBERS 13

Is the number of people, who have been killed in a coordinated gun-and-bomb attack, carried out by al-Shabab at a popular hotel in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, according to police.
2 February 2017

Our Silence on Police Brutality

On 26th January, 2017, different socio-political organisations -- mostly backed by the left wing political parties -- called upon a strike in protest of the construction of the Rampal power plant.
2 February 2017

SNAPSHOT

Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. – Hans Christian Andersen, Danish Author.
2 February 2017

MAILBOX

Dhaka University is considered as the hub of intelligentsia in Bangladesh. However, after its establishment in 1921 Dhaka University, due to its limited resources and capacity comparing to Calcutta University, could not contribute much to the independence movement of Bengal.
2 February 2017