Jannatul Naym Pieal

Women-only buses may offer safer journeys, but they must not become an excuse to make the rest of Bangladesh’s transport system less welcoming to women

In July 2024, a young woman in Dhaka stood in front of a police prison van, trying to stop officers from taking away a fellow male student.

Every decade, Bangladesh finds a way to bend the arc of world cricket -- not through continuous dominance, but through a seismic upset

Imtiaz Ali’s film turned memory, Partition and tenderness into an unlikely theatrical success

Most of the obituaries praise Purja's feats in climbing while skipping past a chapter that, only two years ago, made international headlines: allegations that he had sexually assaulted two women.

Today, some books are taking a very different route. They are bought in bulk, scanned into machine-readable text and, in some cases, destroyed, leaving behind digital files that can be used to train artificial intelligence systems.

Few works of literature have survived as many reinventions as “The Odyssey”. For nearly three millennia, Homer's epic has travelled almost as widely as its hero, acquiring new meanings with each age.

When more than 10,000 young Indians marched from Jantar Mantar to the parliament in New Delhi on Monday—responding to a call by the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement—police launched a crackdown on them with tear gas and batons, allegedly injuring about 150 protesters and detaining many others.