During my time at university, one of my friends, from an indigenous community, and I used to share a dorm room.

“Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.”

Data and sport have never been the most natural of bedfellows. The battle lines have been very clearly drawn by traditional culture –

There are two ways to get a driving license in Bangladesh. One involves roughly seven steps for most people.

IHF Charity Gala Night 2017

Year Zero, the first part of the Vault 7 dump, introduces the scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking programme, its malware arsenal and dozens of 'zero day' weaponised exploits against a wide range of US and European company products.

I like to think that poet Jibanananda Das derived inspiration for his seminal poem Banalata Sen during his times in Barisal.

In 1929, German mathematician and theoretical physicist Hermann Weyl predicted the existence of a massless quasiparticle that kept physicists puzzled for 86 years.

Remember the former British wheelchair racer Tanni Grey-Thompson, who received 16 medals in her Paralympics career, along with 13 world championship medals?

Sohagi Jahan Tonu, a student from Comilla's Victoria College, was raped and her dead body was dumped in the bushes on March 20, 2016. The incident happened inside the cantonment area where she lived with her family. Her father discovered her dead body.

Senwara Begum sits at the door of her small hut with her nine-month-old baby at her breast. She has three other children, but there is nothing in the house to feed them.

2000, 1958, 1535, 1396 – these are the numbers of people killed in the lawless roads and highways of Bangladesh over the last four years.

48-year-old service holder Oshim Kumar Saha had a terrible motorbike accident in 2015; at a 'black spot' near Iliasganj Bazaar of Daudkandi in Dhaka-Chittagong highway (a black spot is a place that has a record of large numbers of crashes).

The recent transfer of a police official to the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) on February 23 shocked the people of CHT, and those on the plain lands who are aware of the sensitive situation in the region.

I had recently been asked to give a talk about “being an American Muslim in the United States.” Although wary of the uses and abuses of the term, I obliged.

All in a week's work. March has barely started. We already have five men (at least) raping, assaulting and killing the women they thought were below them.

Bangladesh is an overpopulated country, which is burdened with a huge number of unemployed men and women.

The beautiful and blue Rangamati Kaptai Lake, with blooming flowers on its banks and the green mountains on each side, imbues in one a sense of peace.

As far as improbable ideas go, the thought of humans being a spacefaring race with the possibility of colonisation of other planets...

Banksy is in the news again - this time because of the Walled Off Hotel that he designed and financed in the city of West Bank, in Bethlehem.