Jamil Mahmud

School teacher Nurun Nahar Tanjila saw her life turn upside down barely a week into her marriage with college teacher Anwar Hossain.

In one corner of Bangladesh National Museum, Rafiqul Islam is painstakingly assembling small metal blocks on a specialised

In the last five years, as many as 2,733 people have been rescued from the clutches of human traffickers in Cox's Bazar. And 242 cases were filed against some 1,355 people over the incidents. However, not a single one has been disposed of.

Born without arms and legs, Janis McDavid, a 25-year-old youth from Germany, spent a large part of his childhood convincing himself that he was like everyone else.

The day started full of hope and enthusiasm for the family of Tajera Begum but turned tragic before noon.

A year has gone by but law enforcers could not even properly identify the people responsible for the sexual assault on women on Pahela Baishakh last year.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has come up with some dubious forms, asking house owners and tenants in different areas to fill in those with personal details, creating confusion and panic among the public. Police say they are doing it for security reasons. Three types of forms -- for house and flat owners, tenants, and mess owners and dwellers -- are available at the DMP headquarters and different police stations in the capital. Police members have also been going door to door, providing forms and collecting information, said DMP officials.

Arwa, aged five, stands still for long staring at a photo of her father, Sajedul Islam Suman. She hasn't seen him or been caressed by him in two years. Although she has begun to faintly feel a sense of loss, she still does not understand why her father disappeared the way he did. "She doesn't cry. But we can sense a vacuum has been created in her,” said her aunt Sanjida Islam. Suman, along with seven others, has gone missing from the capital since December 2013. Their families allege all of them were victims of “enforced disappearance” by Rapid Action Battalion.

Police allegedly have kept three people, two of whom helped the constables injured in Ashulia checkpoint attack last week, in their custody for several days "under the pretext" of questioning.

With badly fractured legs, Kawsar was rushed to the capital's National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor) around 2:00am on September 15.

Mango traders in Chapainawabganj and Rajshahi use toxic chemicals to ripen the fruit. They also do so to get the produce out on the market sooner and to increase its shelf life.