I would like to thank Naziba Basher for her article regarding why one should read published on August 26, 2016. Reading really is something that helps people achieve perfection.

Dhaka city has a specific identity of being called 'the City of Mosques'. According to a 2008 survey of Islamic Foundation, there are more than 2.5 million mosques in Bangladesh, whereas around six thousand of them are in Dhaka city alone.

With the onset of a generation of virtual reality users, and with online shops becoming an important part of our lives, Eid-ul-Adha - the festival of sacrifice - is enjoying a renaissance.

I see most of my movies at festivals.

I was in my office in Lotus Kamal tower-2, busy doing my usual office work, when suddenly I felt a heavy tremor.

Carlos Irwin Estévez, popularly known by his stage name Charlie Sheen, is an American actor.

Showing an unusual plant species, 8-year-old Subah Salam desperately asks her mother, “What is the name of this tree?” Her mother Shahrina Salam (35) eagerly introduces the Ulatkambal plant (one kind of medicinal plant) to her daughter, and shows some interesting looking cactus to her as well.

There's this absolutely brilliant ad on TV, that starts with a girl taking her mother out to a fancy hotel after getting her first salary.

71+ is the number of people killed in Yemeni city of Aden. An explosives-laden car rammed into an army recruiting centre in 29th August, 2016 and the explosion killed more than 71 people and injured another 98 people. It is the deadliest terrorist attack on any Yemeni city in over a year.

Fourteen-year-old Suraiya Akter Risha was just another Dhaka teen – a happy child who would plan a fun weekend with friends and family members, a top achiever at school, maybe even a crazy cricket fan and a music lover – she was just another girl from next doors.

The first time I saw The Vagina Monologues being performed, was at a women's day event in Yorkshire in 2009.

On the occasion of the 40th death anniversary of Kazi Nazrul Islam, a major exponent of Nazrul and a famous Bangladeshi singer of Nazrul compositions, Sadya Afreen Mallick was recently awarded the Nazrul Award 2015.

There are more than fifty restaurants, countless food carts in Satmasjid Road of Dhaka's Dhanmondi neighbourhood alone.

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When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them.

Monsoon and Dhaka have always had a love-hate relationship. Whenever it comes, rain brings along with it a number of troubles

The article titled “Don't be a Bystander” dated 19 August, 2016, shocked me a lot. Is this the Bangladesh in which we believe?

During the last decade, Dhaka has experienced enormous changes in terms of architecture, lifestyle, and also the job market.

We have come a long way today and think of a career beyond medical, engineering and architecture – all noble professions of course. Today we have corporates, accountants and marketing professionals on the rise.

This week, we have lost one of our finest -- a person whose poems started a new revolution in terms of urban poetry.