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2 September 2026 Footwear Craft
How the shoe factory found its feet
S. M. Tahmid
2 September 2026 Footwear Craft
Bangladesh’s Footwear Market Steps Up
2 September 2026 Footwear Craft
Six generations of consumer trust meets comfort
2 September 2026 Footwear Craft
Taking Bangladeshi footwear up the value chain
2 September 2026 Footwear Craft
The making of Bangladesh’s leather industry
S. M. Tahmid
2 September 2026 Footwear Craft
Weathering the Seasons
Sadiya Afrin Hira
2 September 2026 Footwear Craft

From Teknaf to Tetulia

Even though I did not always dream of running a triathlon, I always participated in sports and other athletic activities. An adventure club was being established at Dhaka University when I joined it.
15 February 2018

Sketching Unique Stories

Thank you. I have always loved video-making but after participating in competitions like the NSU Ad Makers, Adwiz and CreDive in 2016, I found my forte and planned to build a media production company.
15 February 2018

Allowing Yourself to Dream

My love for gymnastics dates back to 2006, when I was in grade eight. Back then, Gazipur Physical College introduced the first gymnastics course for children and adults.
15 February 2018

Life in his Words

Every Bengali family can probably pull a beautifully comforting and familiar association with food and cricket in their everyday life.
15 February 2018

Becoming Strong in Mind and Body

It is no mystery that encouraging people to become physically fit from an early age, make healthy life choices, and establish healthy routines for life has turned crucial
15 February 2018

Together for Change

Ensuring access to sports for people, from different spheres, is one of the ways of building a society with equality.
15 February 2018

Setting Their Goals High

Women's participation in sports is often thought to be less appreciated by our community since athletics are largely male-dominated and characterised by masculine qualities such as competition, aggression, and strength.
15 February 2018

Valiant Soldiers Fighting Cancer

Life is accompanied by many sad ordeals. While most individuals overcome them and move on, some decide to invest their time in taking steps to ensure these unfortunate events do not happen to others.
15 February 2018

Voice of the Voiceless

In developing nations like Bangladesh, the death of animals not only represent a loss of income for farm families, but also, family savings and investments over many years.
15 February 2018

A Career in Music?

At one point in life, many of us asked ourselves if it was possible to search for an alternative career path.
15 February 2018

Fuel to a Man's Dream

It is said that dreams are often the most profound when they are the most unusual. This certainly holds true for Muhammad Towhidul Islam.
15 February 2018

The Need for Counselling in Schools

According to experts, day by day adolescent problem behaviours are increasing harrowingly.
15 February 2018

Inside the Cha Polli

Every beautiful creation is an outcome of someone's diligence. The lush green tea gardens of Bangladesh are no exceptions. There is an entire community toiling in the tea garden, a community which is often overlooked.
15 February 2018

Making Research More Accessible

When we think of conducting a research we immediately associate it with a great deal of reading and field work. Access to research materials becomes a crucial point for many researchers and it is surprising
15 February 2018

Fulfilling the Thirst of the Masses

Water is an essential fluid on which all life depends. Even then, access to clean and safe drinking water is one of the most pressing, yet relatively overlooked issues in Bangladesh.
15 February 2018

Dhaka Hub at Davos 2018

I am very fortunate to have had three things in my early childhood that were fundamental in shaping me: a safe home, a good education, and caring parents who instilled strong moral values.
15 February 2018

Gamechanger in the Transport Industry

Hussain M Elius is the current CEO of Pathao, the popular ride-sharing platform that helps passengers reach their destinations on time. Recently, they have also launched two new services call 'Pathao Parcels' and 'Pathao Food'.
15 February 2018

Strengthening Civil Society and Promoting Localisation Agenda

On August 19, 2017 Bangladeshi NGOs for WHS and COAST(Coastal Association for Social Transformation Trust) Bangladesh in
8 February 2018

Stealing the populists' clothes

TWO cheers for US President Donald Trump. Without him, the West would still regard populism as a problem unique to Central and Eastern Europe. Yet Trump's presidency is as clear a demonstration as there could be of the fact that populism is not merely a product of the alleged “immaturity” of post-communist countries.
31 December 2017

A year of renewed climate commitments

FOR the growing share of the world's population that understands the existential threat posed by climate change, the beginning of 2017 brought a sense of trepidation. In fact, collective angst was already apparent at the 2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, which had just started when Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.
31 December 2017