Nahaly Nafisa Khan

A recent study has shown a significant gender gap in the use of mobile phones, the internet and mobile financial services, with women lagging behind in all parameters.

GSMA, an industry organisation that represents the interests of mobile network operators worldwide has recently published a report on the gender gap in mobile use.

Chinmay Tumbe’s The Age of Pandemics (1817-1920): How They Shaped India and the World (HarperCollins, 2020) is a timely read, touching upon three historic pandemics and the effects they had on the culture, economy, and politics of the Indian subcontinent.

It’s been quite some years since the freelancing sector has opened vast career opportunities in our country, and women, no matter how it seems, are not left behind entirely.

In this addition to this series, following up on the previous installment’s focus on nonfiction narratives of Birangonas’s lives and experiences, we recall Tarashankar Bandopadhyay’s '1971' (2015) and Shaheen Akhtar’s 'Talaash' (2004), two books that can be considered as significant exceptions to the trend mentioned above, and also as examples of the politics of representation, objectification of women, and the desensitisation of lived experiences of trauma.

Since yesterday, one of the most talked-about topics in Bangladeshi social media is industrial conglomerate Jamuna Group’s announcement of investing up to Tk 1,000 crore in the e-commerce platform Evaly. The sheer figure astounded many as it is the largest amount of investment the country has ever seen in its e-commerce industry. Initially, Jamuna Group will invest Tk 200 crore, and the rest in phases. 

The 74th Cannes Film Festival has been very special to all of us with “Rehana Maryam Noor,” directed by Abdullah Mohammad Saad being the first ever film from Bangladesh to make it to the official selections and the crew’s dazzling presence in the festival. While the hype with “Rehana Maryam Noor” is stronger than ever, there are some brilliant award-winning films at the festival that deserve the attention of cinephiles as well. Today, we bring you six such films that dazzled the audience and the critics with their cinematic brilliance at Cannes.

Google and Samsung, as well as several Chinese manufacturers, are set to introduce multiple foldable phones with flexible materials later this year, reports The Elec. The Chinese manufacturers include Honor, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi. According to reports, the devices will use UTG technology and panels from Samsung Display, BOE, or CSOT said the report.

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What was it like for our parents, who went to Dhaka University decades ago?

Earlier this month, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), the country’s telecom regulator, fixed the maximum tariff for broadband internet connection at BDT 500 a month for using a broadband connection with a minimum internet speed of 5 Mbps.

On June 6, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC), fixed the maximum tariff for broadband internet across the country at Tk 500 a month for using a broadband connection with a minimum internet speed of 5 Mbps. Behind the scenes, the credit goes to a small community of freelancers in Kushtia who have been campaigning for internet equality for the last 5 years or so. This is their story.

More than 200 Freshippo supermarkets are open in China, operating as ultra-high-tech supermarkets. In these shops, blue polo clad pickers examine shelves with iPhones, scanning barcodes to find the exact brand of oranges, or spice mixes that match online orders. Items are placed in a bag, attached to the automated conveyor system, and whisked up and out to the back of the store to the delivery motorbikes.

The books we recall today, Ami Birangona Bolchi (1994), Rising from the Ashes (2001), and The Spectral Wound (2015), are among the documentations which highlight women’s voices and their perspectives of 1971.

Last November, Google announced that as of June 1st, its unlimited photo storage service was being changed to up to 15GB on the user’s Google

While the danger of what seems to the ever-evolving variants of the coronavirus still looms large over our heads, the black fungus has made an

The debut studio album was released on June 1, 2005.

Side hustles seem like a lucrative opportunity to many, but can we really pull it off? In today’s feature, we talk about some myths regarding side hustles and share facts about what it takes to fully pull it off.

The move comes at a time when the video gaming industry has benefited from a surge in demand from gamers staying at home during the Covid-19 pandemic. Currently, Netflix has more than 200 million subscribers it can reach with games.

The past year has been extremely difficult for students of all levels. The uncertainty and academic loss, getting used to online classes and missing out on campus life have taken a toll on both the mental and physical health of the students.