Across the country, red-green flags were fluttering over buildings -- euphoria was in the air following the end of a nine-month-long bloody war.

Imagine the land border between India and Bangladesh. What do you think it is like? A fence that runs for miles? A craggy, clearly demarcated line like the one seen on maps? Communities living along the border will tell you otherwise. To many of them, the border is an invisible line anyone can step over without a visa.

Just one paisa of the gas bill being paid by a consumer, means Tk 35 crores in revenue for the utility companies.

"The commissioner has not done anything ... Why are you killing him?" Repeating these words, a female voice kept screaming over a mobile phone moments after hearing a gunshot during a phone call, according to an unverified audio clip.

Hearing stories that are not heard otherwise

In January this year, a woman in her early twenties named Sonia Akhter was brought to Dhaka Medical College Hospital haemorrhaging from a botched abortion.

The land mass that rose from the sea bed from the siltation of two mighty rivers, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, supports a

A prisoner in Dhaka Central Jail has to spend around Tk 30,000 a month for food and other services which the state is supposed to provide for free.

A lot has been said about whether to eat Hilsa fish during this Pahela Baishakh. But how much do we know about this interesting, often enigmatic fish Bangalis are so proud of? Do we know why we never find any Hilsa without eggs, why they die as soon as they are taken out of water?

The booming cafe culture that we now see in the major cities of the country is anything but a new development. Bengalis have a rich political heritage and 'storm in a teacup' is a concept we are all too familiar with. From the historic Madhur Canteen at the University of Dhaka, to a not-so-famous neighbourhood tea-stall, we love to indulge in a piping hot cup of tea and equally engage in heated political debates.

We have used Pakistani sources--books written by Pakistani military officers involved in the operations in East Pakistan in 1971 and the report of a chief justice of Pakistan--to compile these reports to show the extent and complicity of the Pakistan Government and its military in the genocide, destruction, and uprooting of tens of millions of Bangalis in 1971. The facts speak for themselves.

Pakistan not only lied by denying its atrocities in Bangladesh in 1971, it deliberately twisted facts to deny the genocide it committed on the Bangali people during the nine-month Liberation War.

These chilling words came from no other person than the chief of Pakistan army for its eastern command, General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi.

This mighty mixed-evergreen forest spanned 1,645 square kilometers, starting from the tip of Myanmar in the south and east and touching Assam and Tripura in the east and north. It was the richest natural forest that the country could ever have.

We took a short walk at the back of the station. Thick thorny hetal bush had spread all the way to the keora forest.

The bright celestial pinheads reflected all around us in the rippling water. And the sky's face was occasionally streaked by a sudden shooting star, which glowed for a few evanescent seconds, carrying the wishes of so many people.

As our cameras clicked away documenting this amazing show, Siraj could not hold himself any more and wanted to save the dying bird.

These four political parties are Muslim League and all its factions, Pakistan Democratic Party, Nezam-e-Islam and Jamat-e-Islami. In addition to these the government has also banned the Pakistan People's Party. The announcement was made by the Bangla Desh government in a radio broadcast.

According to the Red List of International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the animals in the pictures are however not endangered worldwide.