Taking a trip to the older part of Dhaka is always refreshing; the walls, colours, the narrow lanes and of course the age-old

A small asteroid has been discovered in an orbit around the sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth, and it will remain so for centuries to come.

"The hardships that my mother, like other mothers in our country, went through- she did not deserve it,” says Dr Sayed Saikh Imtiaz, Chairperson and Associate Professor, Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Executive Director (Honorary), Center for Men and Masculinities Studies (CMMS).

To introduce Bangladesh in the World Wide Web as the most densely populated country in the world, probably the most used

It was around 10 o clock at night near the city's Farmgate intersection. A curious crowd was gathering around a canvasser who

An injured elephant in Zimbabwe motions for assistance when help arrives after it wandered around a park for weeks with a massive gunshot wound on its head.

Ernestine Shepherd, world’s oldest female bodybuilder just celebrated her birthday, but can you guess her age?

I was born in Homs and I wanted to live there until the end, but this vicious war left us no other choice but to leave all behind… For the sake of my children’s future we had to take the risk.

Saransika, a 14-year-old refugee from Sri Lanka, lost her family on the high seas and struggles to come to terms with her loss.

Sahara had to flee Somalia and later was offered resettlement. We met her on her way, in the Emergency Transit Centre in Humenne, Slovakia.

She endured violent storms, pirate raids and severely unsanitary conditions to make it to Indonesia, only to find herself stranded on an uninhabited island for almost three months until being rescued by the UNHCR.

Hailing from Bangalore, R. Basil is an Electrical Engineering graduate from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum who did his M. Tech in Power Systems Engineering from Cochin University of Science & Technology. Since then he has worked in three different sectors — Power Systems Engineering, Medical Systems and Healthcare Management.

We drank sea water to survive. In the middle of the sea, the boat’s GPS broke down.

Abdullah closes his eyes as he recalls the terrifying journey he made after escaping from Rakhine State, in Myanmar.

Like so many others, 34-year-old Jihan was willing to risk everything in order to escape war-torn Syria and find safety for her family.

I grew up with all the rules, fears, responsibilities and restrictions that are imposed onto refugees or that refugees impose on themselves, being strangers in a new land.

In Malta he might have had a steady job, but what’s the use of having one when you can’t live with your family?

Like every year, the festival of Eid-ul-Fitr has everyone excited and enthusiastic to buy new clothes, accessories and watches.

Adventure and travelling has recently seeped into our society, be it among the upper or middle class. Weekend getaways have

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