Bishakha Devnath

It was when Bangladesh opened its doors last year to Rohingya refugees escaping genocide at the hands of army personnel and

Rahima Begum returned to Dhaka from Saudi Arabia on March 21 with nothing but the scars and memories of the torture back in Riyadh. Her husband, refusing to accept her back, had left.

Sahanara had brought her daughter Samia Akhter Sumaiya, 6, to Dhaka for treatment at the Nitor, commonly known as Pongu hospital. As soon as she reached the public hospital at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, a broker lured her to Crescent Hospital and Diagnostic Complex Limited in Mohammadpur, promising better treatment at a cheaper cost.

Rani Bala cannot remember much about her life before she was brought to a shelter home at Abdullahpur in the capital. After her daughter and son turned her away, homeless Rani wandered around the streets of Shanir Akhra for two years.

If a rape victim is an adult woman or a mother, it is highly difficult for her to get justice because of the existing evidence law.

The HC, while delivering the judgment, pointed out a few loopholes in the investigation and the case the prosecution presented. Coupled with the absence of medical evidence, the court decided to acquit the accused.

At the tender age of 13, when she should be out playing with friends or studying, her life now revolves around tending to a son born out of rape.

In 2007, a villager was killed as two groups clashed over the theft of a cow in Companiganj upazila of Sylhet. It took one year to complete the investigation of the murder case. Another seven years was taken to finish the trial. The pursuit of delayed justice resulted in nothing; in the verdict delivered in 2015, no one was punished.

Shahana Chowdhury kept going back to the story of her 25-year-old son’s recent Hong Kong visit and repeatedly said how proud she was to have seen her autistic child along with 10 others win the best performance award in a cultural programme there. Her excitement was mixed with gratitude for Begum Nur Jahan Dipa, special educator at the Parents Forum for the Differently Able (PFDA)-Vocational Training Centre, who made it possible.

Access to education is now just a click away and diving into it can be fun too.

Community-driven initiatives can bring about real changes to the scenario of child marriage in the country.

The world's first ever vaccine to prevent dengue fever works just fine on those who had contracted the disease before, but brings trouble to the people who were never infected by the virus.

Ezazur Rahman Chowdhury started his online business in 2013 selling perfumes and watches. The idea struck him during his post-

On a busy September evening last year, Limana Solaiman, a private service holder, waited at Kakoli in the capital for about one and a half hours to hail an auto-rickshaw home.

A foul-smelling narrow corridor, housing a cluttered drug store, an office room and a pathology lab on one side and consultants' rooms on the other.

Garment waste management exemplifies the idea of one man's trash being another man's treasure. If tapped correctly, it has the potential of bringing in $4 billion annually.

"Why did the intellectuals kill?"

Alamgir jumped out of a human haulier inside Dhaka Cantonment and kept hollering at the top of his voice, "Jahangir Gate, Jahangir Gate".

When the afternoon sun was shining down around 2:15pm yesterday, Sagor Hossain started for Farmgate from Shantinagar. He chose that particular time for the journey mainly to avoid the rush-hour traffic.

Sixty-five-year-old Fatema Begum lives deep into Madan upazila of Netrakona, where formal healthcare is an inconceivable luxury. So, when an itch broke out all over her body, she ignored it at first. But things got severe; she found herself scratching her skin until it swelled and began aching.