“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” – Camille Pissarro

Last week's spotlight was a pleasant read as it was full of information about one of our unsung heroes, Kamal Lohani. The article helped me a lot to know about Kamal Lohani who has dedicated his life to the prosperity of the country. His strong patriotism and

Nine people were shot dead by a white gunman during a bible study class at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina. This attack at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is being viewed as a hate crime.

Randall Jarrell was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate.

An Awami League leader of Benapole municipality unit was abducted from Aricha Ferry terminal in Manikganj district early yesterday.

The law enforcers arrested an alleged human trafficker from Kamargaon village under Shibpur upazila of the district on Sunday night.

It would have been an unforgettable, joyous day for BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak.

While working with one of the civil society organisations in Egypt in 2005, American citizen Rebecca Chao and her three Egyptian

It was a fine morning on June 25th, 2013. RagibHasan reached his office atthe University of Alabama in Birmingham, USA and started

Plant first, ask later. This is what a handful of volunteers in an ordinary town in northern England did, and from it sprang a worldwide

This July, a Muslim, a Jew, a Christian and an atheist will take off on a year-long journey around the world, the second

Russian developer Mikhail Pozhidaev, himself visually impaired, has created a free operating system for the blind, which is simple

In India’s Barefoot College, rural women learn to make and maintain solar panels, bringing clean power to their villages and creating

Generating electricity through play. That’s the simple but inspired idea of an American humanitarian organisation: Empower

At the end of 2011, a group of friends saved 12 cheese pies left over at a bakery in a poor neighbourhood of western Athens and

Filled with stamps from the 15 or so countries he has visited, Brandon Cobone has an impressive passport for an 18-year-old. Even

The free iPhone app Be My Eyes connects blind users with sighted volunteers. When a blind user needs help, he accesses the app and

When Dave Hakkens’ camera broke during a vacation in 2012, the Dutch design student took it apart to see what had gone wrong.

Belete Tura straps a large, lightweight pack to her back before starting her short walk to a nearby biogas facility in ArsiNegele, in the

He was 17 when a car accident left him without his right leg.Walter Aguilar Turcios thought his life was over, that he would never be able