Sanjida Islam Nova, first girl of her class at Uttara's Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Government High School, killed herself on May 8, 2017.

Malik Sajad's Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir takes all preconceived notions about Kashmir and breaks them into pieces.

That a man such as Professor Abdur Razzaq can give rise to contention is no surprise. He had been a teacher in some way or another to almost every brilliant mind in this country since independence.

LOST IN THE ARCHIVES

Report after report have been published analysing the effects that the Rampal power plant would have on the environment since as early as 2015. We've compiled a timeline of the major concerns that have been raised against Rampal.

It really does not seem fair. This man, who ruled the roost like no other from early 2005 to late 2007, then gave up a bit of his...

Reality TV has long been a fixture of regular television. Shows like Queen for a Day and Cash and Carry introduced the concept in the 1940s, testing the waters.

It's a truth universally, and perhaps, grudgingly acknowledged, that a production does not work without its corporate sponsors; and that is precisely where the corporations play their big hands. Beginning from picking the director, producer and actors, they also influence how their products are integrated into the story.

When I read some of the introductions of myself, I see that people see me as actor-director, TV personality, social activist, entrepreneur, etc. Yes, I wear many caps. And these are things I do.

Banu Begum, a 38-year-old garment worker, leaves home at 7.30 in the morning, drops off her two daughters at a nearby madrasa and then walks to her factory a few kilometres away.

SAFETY FIRST

Not long after he subscribed to a weekly paper that assembles job advertisements, Didarul Alam, desperate for a job, noticed a lucrative ad—from “Village Save The Children”.

We begin at a time after the battle of Karbala, where the traitor Simar is carrying Hazrat Hossain's disembodied head to Damascus in the hopes of getting a sizeable bounty.

What is in the eggs you eat? On April 9, the Supreme Court looked for the answer to this question and did not like what they found.

When the whole city is caught up in the debate of whether local or sitting service is more conducive to commuters...

A timeline of the major industrial accidents in Bangladesh in recent years.

Rana Plaza. The murder scene of 1,129 Bangladeshi workers, and burial ground of numerous “missing”. A national shame, an international spectacle.

The Rana Plaza collapse wasn't just the worst mass fatality disaster in the history of the garment industry; it was the worst mass fatality disaster in the history of all manufacturing.

I have known the site of Rana Plaza in Savar for almost four decades now. I have to cross Savar to and from the Jahangirnagar campus

There is an age-old proverb, “Out of sight out of mind”. This, I fear, is what is happening to the 1,134 workers who died in Rana Plaza, and the thousands who have been injured and are barely surviving.