The quintessential red and white has been revamped and is all set to blow fashion sirens for Boishakh. Pohela Boishakh is no longer limited to a hearty breakfast and a morning spent at the 'Botomul' musical soiree.

One of the minor mysteries of this teenage century is how a toddler American President managed to win the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2008 after just weeks in office.

THERE'S many a slip twixt the cup and the lip,” goes the old English proverb.

DATELINE New Delhi, 27 February 2015: BCCI's side-lined president N. Srinivasan (World Cup's booed trophy handler) apologised unconditionally to the Supreme Court for presiding over the February 8 BCCI Working Committee meeting in breach of the January 2015 Court order.

PARDON me, if this reads like a gossip column. For, this is no grapevine stuff, if you should look at it up close.

We have known of many deaths over many years. In fact, we are running the risk of becoming desensitised about it all as if unnatural

IT'S almost like a ritual killing that will happen every now and then. The word 'blogger' has become the most hateful word in the dictionary of religious extremists.

THE people of Bangladesh do not take any insults hurled at them lightly.

Here we publish a letter written by Kamruddin Ahmad to the Law Minister on November 21, 1972. Kamruddin Ahmad was a Language Movement hero, politician, lawyer and diplomat.

Here we publish an excerpt from Air Vice Marshal ( Retd.) A. K. Khandker's speech on the strategy and tactics of the Liberation War.

Here we publish Mr. Tajuddin Ahmad's speech addressed to the nation on December 8, 1971. He was the Prime Minister of the Mujibnagar government.

Here we publish an account of Kohinoor Hossain, wife of Lt Commander Moazzem Hossain, who was killed on March 25 by the Pakistani occupation army. He was the number two accused of the Agartala Conspiracy case.

Here we publish Major Khaled Musharrof's confidential letter dispatched to Colonel Osmani in August 1971. During the Liberation War, Major Musharrof was Sector Commander of Sector-2.

THIS is my first opportunity to speak to an audience after our Independence. I convey my sincere thanks to Bangla Academy for affording me this opportunity.

There is no power in the village, but an initiative by a farmers' cooperative has boosted their hopes of bumper crop yields in the

OUR nationalist movement that led to the War of Liberation began soon after the creation of Pakistan. Since inception, the Pakistani rulers began maligning our culture to destroy our independent cultural identity.

Here we publish Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Sydney H. Schanberg's famous article titled "Pakistan Divided".

Brain drain remains a global problem, especially for many developing countries including Bangladesh. Lured by better pay and benifits

MARCH of 1971 was a month that will go down in history because, beginning on March 1, the course of history of one Pakistan changed very fast.

Back in the 80s a young woman in her early 20s used to travel regularly to different parts of Dhaka with a determination to establish her own business.