Sifat Afrin Shams

Women's health research is inequitable despite physiological differences. This is a social injustice.

Amid unprecedented levels of suppression, legal hurdles, and personal risks, journalists in Bangladesh stood firm against the fascist government of Sheikh Hasina during the July uprising.

The days are short and the sun is playing hide and seek. It is a brand-new year and instead of feeling hopeful, you are feeling rather down.

Mosquitoe-bites are a menace for everybody. Especially, during this season, due to the risk of dengue, chikungunya etc.

Elon Musk has said that he wants to see Twitter fulfil its “extraordinary potential”. Is that why he has been so interested in owning the social media platform?

We Bangladeshis love to eat and cook. However, with the increasingly busy schedule of urban life, we have started to forget our traditional recipes and heritage of delicate cooking.

Leonard Norman Cohen was born on this day in 1934 in Quebec, Canada. His work explored religion, politics, isolation, depression, sexuality, loss, death, and romantic relationships.

Sufi Faruq Ibne Abubakar, former IT head of a multinational company, started Gurukul Online Learning Network with a dream to minimize the quality gap between education available to city and rural students.

Dhaka’s air saw significant fall in pollution level during the three days following Eid-ul-Azha.

Let us try to dig deep into the myths and realities of chickenpox, the tropical disease of the season, with the help of experts.

As the New Year waits with new things in store, let’s take a tour back to the good movies the passing year presented us with.

Inland fish producers are incurring heavy losses as the market price of fish remains stagnant amid spiralling costs of production.

The history of Rajshahi University (RU) convocation has not been an easy one. The 64-year old educational institute has had only nine convocation ceremonies for its graduates so far.

During the last two months, anticipations and suspense regarding the Chikungunya viral fever caused by Aedes Aegypti mosquito have gone viral. Half of the Dhakaites still are in physical pain left by the virus, half are half-relieved that they have been spared so far, and half-anxious about being the next victim.

Eid is a very special occasion to exchange gifts. We convey our feelings to our loved ones through the object we present. Ever thought of making those gifts on your own to make them more special?

“I am the man who can”, says Diana aka Wonder Woman. DC Comics’ new movie “Wonder Woman” makes it huge for all the right reasons in theatres since it is released.

Born in Sri Lanka, the cyclone got its name from Thailand. “Mora” is a Thai word, which means “star of the sea” or “sea star”.

Remember Anisha, the two to three days’ old baby recovered from a dustbin in Dhaka last month? What grave mistake could she have made in such short life to deserve the punishment that shatters our faith in humanity and makes us question the sanctity of the parent-child bond?

We Bangalis have our own unique sense of humour and are very famous for it. Making jokes about almost everything and anything in subtlest to not-so-subtle and lamest ways is part of our characteristics.

For the last three years, the air quality in Dhaka remains consistently unhealthy during the dry season according to the Department of Environment (DoE). DoE states that 58% of the particulate pollutants responsible for the smog in the air of Dhaka city comes from the orthodox brick kilns around and inside Dhaka.