Engineering resilience into every structure
5 October 2026
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Resilient Homes
Building Better Begins with Making Better
5 October 2026
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Resilient Homes
Use of Suitable Bricks and Blocks in Building Construction
5 October 2026
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Resilient Homes
Housing a changing Bangladesh
5 October 2026
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Resilient Homes
A blueprint for Bangladesh's manufacturing future
4 October 2026
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Supplements
Rooftop solar is turning property owners into power sellers
4 October 2026
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Your Property Guru
The city that follows you home
4 October 2026
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Your Property Guru
Bringing EV charging home
4 October 2026
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Your Property Guru
The architecture we live with but never notice
4 October 2026
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Your Property Guru
When is a painting worth the splurge?
4 October 2026
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Your Property Guru
Dairy industry in Bangladesh: Prospects and roadblocks
It may appear alien to many that traditional milk collectors and sellers, known as Goalas, used to visit households with their milk containers every morning to sell fresh milk. And households used to buy from them.
31 May 2018
Milk Facts
Milk contains...
31 May 2018
Ice cream delight
Summer, definitely not the most wonderful season in the country. Days are long and hot—not the perfect conditions outside, but we
31 May 2018
Why milk matters
For all stages of life, milk is nature's elixir for good health. Milk and other dairy foods are densely packed with antioxidants, vitamins
31 May 2018
Menstruation matters to everyone, everywhere
14-year-old Jamila woke up with a cramping sensation in her lower back and lower abdomen. Initially the pain was dull but it was something she had never experienced before.
27 May 2018
Breaking the bloody taboo
Bangladesh has seen cascading changes in terms of women's empowerment, setting an example of herself among other developing nations.
27 May 2018
Educating men and boys
How would you feel if you bled for a week straight with severe cramps and extreme irritation? Needless to say, your agony would surpass your tolerance level.
27 May 2018
Why we need to talk about mental health and menstruation
She feels energetic and determined to do all her work. She has got the urge to work hard and give her best. She is proactive about her submissions and feels confident about her ideas. Her performance chart has reached its peak and she has never felt so positive.
27 May 2018
“Bangabandhu” - An illustrious leader
In 1973 at the Algiers Non-Aligned Summit, embracing Bangabandhu, Cuba's Fidel Castro remarked, “I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.”
25 March 2018
Only Sheikh Mujib could deliver
The month of March is a turning point in our history for this is the time when we achieved our independence from colonial Pakistani rule. Incidentally, this is also the month in which (on March 17) was born the father of the Bengali nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
25 March 2018
Why should a hero remain unsung?
I came across a facebook positing of Mrs. Bilkis Mohiuddin, wife of an illustrious diplomat Mr. Mohiuddin Ahmed, that a veteran of diplomatic front in 1971 has not yet been recognised by the State for his historical contribution in the diplomatic front of the war. He is no other than Mr. Amjadul Huq, an Assistant Press Attaché of Pakistan Embassy in New Delhi in 1971.
25 March 2018
Operation Kalachara Tea Garden
After a series of delaying battles at Ujanishar, Akhaura, Kharampur, Rajapur in April, 1971, my forces i.e. D Company, 4E, Bengal and two assorted platoons consisting of EPR, Mujahid and volunteers were forced out of Bangladesh. We crossed the border at Narsingarh opposite Singerbil of Bangladesh in the first week of May, 1971. For obvious reasons we were battle-fatigued and exhausted.
25 March 2018
Memories of the angry March
February 1971 President Yahya Khan in a military conference had directed his subordinates “Kill three million of them and the rest will eat out of our hands”. Quoted from Massacre: The tragedy at Bangladesh and the phenomenon of mass slaughter throughout history by Robert Payne.
25 March 2018
1971: Resistance, Resilience and Redemption
1971: Resistance, Resilience and Redemption by Major General Md Sarwar Hossain, BSP, SGP, ndc, ldmc, psc, PhD is another addition to the existing literature on the most glorious phase of our history—the Liberation War.
25 March 2018
Indian army's support structure
If your house is set on fire, and my house is adjacent to yours, I cannot rest in peace. That was precisely the case for India in March 1971, when East Pakistan was set on fire by the Pakistani brute military. There were massacres, rapes, destructions and lootings in East Pakistan, forcing millions of Bengali people to search for safety elsewhere.
25 March 2018
The Liberation War and the Provisional Government
In the wake of the crackdown on March 25, the Awami League leaders felt bereft and were left to their devices. Senior leaders fled from their houses to take shelter either in remote villages or in India. Among them was the Awami League General Secretary Tajuddin Ahmed. The Indian authorities gave them safety and shelter. On the evening of April 1, Tajuddin and Barrister Amirul Islam were put aboard a Russian-
25 March 2018
Editor's note
As we step into our 47th year of independence, we commemorate March 26 with joy and gratitude. Our becoming independent was the inevitable conclusion of decades of struggle against subjugation that had left us bereft of our most fundamental cultural, economic and political rights. It is a day that is remembered as a monumental transition from a state of oppression to that of an independent state which was
25 March 2018
Play Summit 2018
The crowd stepped onto a colourful platform of the BRAC Centre for Development Management (BCDM), Savar, Dhaka. They were there
16 March 2018
Women entrepreneurs kept away from loans
Women entrepreneurs are still lagging behind in access to SME (small and medium enterprise) financing due to
7 March 2018
Women's participation in the job market
Women's participation in the labour force has increased manifolds over time in Bangladesh. Compared to 4 percent
7 March 2018