Perspective / What can the price of an iPhone Duo buy in Bangladesh?
16 September 2026
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Life & Living
Opinion / Why Ducsu’s faculty evaluation move matters
16 September 2026
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Campus
NRB entrepreneur's fintech startup raises $20 million seed round
16 September 2026
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Technology
The internet is for everyone, so its governance must belong to everyone: Charles Mok
15 September 2026
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Technology
Social Issues / The untold stories of bagh bidhobas, tiger widows of the Sunderbans
14 September 2026
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Life & Living
Interviews / Porcelain Kiss: Inside an indie artist's dark electronic soundscapes
13 September 2026
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Interviews
Shift / Curated Cars 2.0: Back again to show the standards
15 September 2026
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Technology
Profile / In conversation with Gobinda Basak: A life woven in crafts
14 September 2026
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Life & Living
No government is ready for AI's impact, warns Bill Gates
15 September 2026
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Technology
Scholarships / Chevening 2027-2028: Fully-funded master's degree in the UK
13 September 2026
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Scholarships
Instagram updates its wordmark for the first time in a decade
Instagram unveiled a redesigned, sharper wordmark logo—its first update in nearly a decade—drawing mixed reactions over its stylized cursive letterforms.
17 August 2026
Investors sue Selena Gomez and Wondermind, alleging fraud and broken promises
Investors filed a fraud lawsuit against Selena Gomez and her mother over the collapse of Wondermind, alleging $1.2 million was lost to unfulfilled commitments.
17 August 2026
The people behind Dhaka’s unlikely skateboard revolution
Overcome urban challenges through Bangladesh Street Kids Aid in Dhaka, where street-involved youth like Reshma Akter learn skateboarding to escape child marriage and substance abuse while developing essential life skills, confidence, and community resilience.
17 August 2026
Giving children a voice through fashion
Empower underprivileged youth through Bangladesh Street Kids Aid, where creative professionals at Kay Kraft and Craftsman Footwear transformed street children's drawings into custom fashion, fostering confidence, self-expression, and freedom through skateboarding and personalized style.
17 August 2026
Nvidia's $500 billion plan to keep ageing GPUs valuable is a gamble with its own balance sheet
Nvidia backed a $500 billion AI data center initiative with a 25% collateral value guarantee to create a secondary market for aging GPUs.
17 August 2026
Competency based BCS viva: how candidates can prepare
Bangladesh's civil service recruitment system is moving towards a competency-based approach to the viva voce, changing the emphasis from what candidates know to how they have applied their skills in real-world situations.
17 August 2026
AI coding startup Cognition in talks to raise new round at $40 billion valuation
Cognition is in talks for a new funding round at a $40 billion valuation as its AI coding agent Devin approaches $1 billion in annualised revenue.
17 August 2026
Vibe-coding startup Lovable raises $400 million
European vibe-coding startup Lovable confirmed a $400 million Series C funding round at a $13.3 billion valuation to expand its AI app development platform.
17 August 2026
Astronomers discover a black hole pretending to be a star
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope identified MoM-BH*-1, a "black hole star" that may explain the mysterious "little red dots" in the early universe.
17 August 2026
AI backlash is a crisis of trust, says Anthropic CEO
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei recently said in a series of posts on X that public hostility toward artificial intelligence reflects a deeper erosion of trust in institutions, rather than safety warnings from industry leaders.
17 August 2026
SpaceX completes acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor
SpaceX has officially completed its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding assistant startup Cursor, integrating its team and technology into the SpaceXAI division.
16 August 2026
Claude will watermark AI text. Here’s how it works
Anthropic detailed how its invisible text watermarking system for Claude models works to comply with EU AI Act transparency rules.
16 August 2026
Chowrasta brings Bangladesh’s hip-hop community together
Celebrate hip-hop's fifty-third anniversary through Chowrasta, a Dhaka cultural gathering hosted by Street Spirit pioneers Bijoya Das and Sketch. Local breakers, rappers, graffiti artists, and DJs unite to transform street art into empowered Bangladesh storytelling.
16 August 2026
The hidden language we speak through jewellery
Discover how ancient shell beads and traditional ornaments evolved into symbolic communication. From African Maasai beadwork to Bangladeshi nose rings, handcrafted jewellery expresses unique identities, social status, and cultural connections across human history.
16 August 2026
Bangladeshi companies look beyond chatbots with agentic AI
Known as agentic AI, these systems are designed not only to generate responses but also to plan, make decisions and execute actions across multiple software applications. A small but growing number of Bangladeshi companies are beginning to develop products based on the technology.
15 August 2026
Meet the hawkers carrying Nakshi Kantha through Dhaka
Discover authentic Nakshi Kantha as street hawkers navigate Dhaka neighborhoods like Banani and Gulshan, bringing hand-stitched quilts by rural craftswomen directly to homes, offering accessible heritage craft that bridges traditional Bangladeshi stories with everyday urban life.
15 August 2026
The unspoken burden of being the head of the family
Uncover the silent burden of becoming a family head through the lived experiences of Bangladeshis like Saikat Barua and Musfiq Fuad, navigating parental expectations, heavy duty, and quiet resilience to support their loved ones.
15 August 2026
When numbers don't add up: Understanding dyscalculia
Research shows that the prevalence of developmental dyscalculia in the school population ranges from three to six percent, a frequency similar to that of dyslexia and ADHD.
14 August 2026
The types of students at a university library
Theoretically, the university library is supposed to be a quiet, distraction-free, and sacred space for focused studying and other academic work. However, in reality, it’s like a Hunger Games arena.
14 August 2026
The inevitability of Mother Mary and Arundhati Roy
Mother Mary Comes to Me is about the unrelenting Mary Roy, but it is also about the acknowledgement that our deepest inheritances are neither material nor sentimental.
13 August 2026