At first glance, a sigh escapes almost involuntarily.

When you’re on the streets of Dhaka, perhaps idly sitting in the backseat of a vehicle, if you take a minute to stop doom-scrolling and stare out through the windows, you will more than likely see drama unfolding before your eyes!

Development is all about enlarging freedoms for all so that every human being can pursue the choices they value and raise their voices in support of those choices.

The gig economy is rapidly reshaping urban life, yet digital labour platforms fail to provide adequate support to the workers who keep this economy running.

A year has passed since the country erupted in protests over the quota-reform movement — a wave of demonstrations that soon snowballed into a nationwide uprising.

In this ever-expanding universe of subfields, a single, generalised undergraduate degree can begin to feel like a jack-of-all-trades programme that risks giving students only superficial exposure to areas they may later wish to master.

Deshi Ballers is a pioneer. It has been seven years of constant efforts to dismantle gender stereotypes and create a supportive space where female basketball lovers can dream bigger, transforming from rookies into confident future professionals.

The latest go-to place in Dhaka is “At the Table”, a food court at the crossroads of Moghbazar Mor and Eskaton, towards Bangla Motor. This intersection is one of the most chaotic and busiest in the city, making it an unlikely place for an upmarket food court.

Entering their forties, many women experience a liberating midlife awakening — embracing authenticity, financial independence, and emotional growth. This empowering decade fosters self-discovery, supportive sisterhoods, and renewed purpose, reshaping societal narratives around aging and womanhood with grace and strength.

Kaktarua Puppet Theater is reviving the dying art of puppetry in Bangladesh, using engaging puppet shows to educate children, promote social awareness, and offer therapeutic care, despite limited funding and modern digital distractions.

I remember—it was late afternoon, the sun leaning westward. From a distance, a soft yet resolute melody drifted through the air. I was just a boy then, curious and drawn by the sound. I approached quietly.

In the shadows of booming remittance flows and the quiet resilience of Bangladesh’s labour diaspora, a disturbing reality persists: numerous Bangladeshi female migrant workers, particularly those employed as domestic help in Gulf countries, are returning home in coffins.

A coral hawkfish rests on a coral, thus the name, in the Bay of Bengal off Saint Martin’s Island.

In chaotic Dhaka, peace is possible through slow rickshaw rides, book cafés, reconnecting with friends, family get-togethers, childhood nostalgia, music therapy, and mindfulness — small joys that help urbanites recharge from everyday stress.

The key to building your career isn't a rigid five-year plan. It's building a 'flexible' roadmap, i.e. one that gives you direction without locking you into a single path. Here's how to do it.

The July Movement in Bangladesh fused protest with digital defiance, using social media to bypass media silence, mobilize voices, and challenge power. It reshaped activism, highlighting social media’s role in truth, trauma, and transformation.

Imagine if the next global fashion sensation did not emerge from Paris or Milan but quietly bloomed in a lotus pond in the wetlands of Bangladesh.

Under the vast skies of northern Bangladesh, in the corners of Rajshahi, Dinajpur, Rangpur, and the hillier terrains of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, lives a vibrant community whose roots run deep into the soil and soul of the region—the Oraons.

Around 700 private couriers form the country’s logistics backbone from cities to villages

Muradnagar rape unmasked, yet again, the cruel face of the state as a male homologue.