children

Around the world with Tilmund and the travel bug

Samai Haider’s Tilmund’s Travel Tales (Guba Books, 2020) is a story about a little boy named Tilmund who has a great wish to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and travel the world.
25 August 2021, 18:00 PM

Shantinagar

Where could they live happily for the rest of their childhood?
28 July 2021, 18:00 PM

Shishurai Shob: Let’s create a child-sensitive society

Shishurai Shob is a voluntary initiative, which aims to contribute to creating a child sensitive society by developing awareness and capacity of all concerned adults across all socio-economic groups. 
26 July 2021, 06:42 AM

Middle Child Myths, Debunked

What, if anything, makes middle children special?
23 June 2021, 18:00 PM

Textbooks taken away from student for failing to pay picnic fee

Headmaster of a primary school in Nilphamari has allegedly taken away textbooks from a fifth grader as she failed to pay the school’s annual picnic fee.
4 February 2020, 12:01 PM

Char children getting poor schooling

It was late March. Around 3:30pm, the Biramer Pachgachchi Govt Primary School was already closed, an hour too early. So was the nearby Kashirpara Govt Primary School. Both schools face a similar problem --neither the students nor the teachers are much interested in class.
12 May 2019, 18:00 PM

DCI and RSC organise concert to support underprivileged children

The Distressed Children and Infants International (DCI) and Rights and Sight for Children (RSC) organised a concert for underprivileged children at the Krishibid Institute Bangladesh Auditorium recently.
20 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Bringing hope to kids with special needs

Children with special learning needs, along with their families, in Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur saw a glimmer of hope when a group of around nine individuals began an initiative to provide them with free primary education. That glimmer shone brighter and brighter as the project came to fruition.
19 November 2018, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh beat India 2-1

Following an intense finish, the Bangladesh Physically Challenged Cricket team completed a 2-1 series victory against their Indian counterparts in Ranchi yesterday.
15 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Football: A North Korean Messi? Pyongyang academy hopes so

Undaunted by sanctions and hard realities on the pitch, North Korea's lone football academy has set its sights high -- producing players better than Lionel Messi, and teams that can dominate the world.
15 November 2016, 06:41 AM

Heroes in Rio, Ukraine's disabled struggle at home

Dmytro Shchebetyuk, 26, an archer on the Paralympics reserve team and co-founder of "Dostupno UA", a project monitoring accessibility for people with disabilities, agrees that he finds it hard to come back to Ukraine after travelling abroad.
23 September 2016, 05:41 AM

Mesut Ozil and Paul Pogba fund surgeries of 22 needy children

The Germany international has been involved in numerous philanthropic campaigns over the course of his career, the latest of which has included funding the surgery of 11 African children.
24 June 2016, 08:17 AM

20,000 children trapped in Iraq's Fallujah: UN

At least 20,000 children are trapped in jihadist bastion Fallujah under siege by Iraqi forces and face shortages and forced recruitment as fighters, the UN Children's Fund says.
1 June 2016, 11:04 AM

23,000 infants can be saved each year in Bangladesh

As many as 23,000 children might be saved a year in Bangladesh if women do not give birth before the age of 20, said a Unicef official, expressing concern over a high level of child marriage in the country.
3 May 2016, 18:00 PM

Move to curb sexual exploitation of children

A website has been launched in Dhaka city with a view to curb commercial use of sexual exploitation of children in Bangladesh.
28 April 2016, 10:01 AM

50 fall sick after having Panta-Ilish in Bagerhat

At least fifty people including women and children fall sick after having Panta-Ilish at a Bangla New Year celebration programme organised by the Kachua Upazila Parishad in Bagerhat.
15 April 2016, 11:32 AM

CHILDREN HELPING CHILDREN

“I want to be a medical doctor working for the disadvantaged like my dad. I do have to keep bringing everything
9 April 2016, 18:00 PM

Prime suspect of Comilla minors’ killing held

The prime suspect in a case filed over killing of two children in Comilla has been arrested from Dhaka.
1 March 2016, 05:22 AM

4 kids hurt in Ctg boundary wall collapse

Four children are injured as a boundary wall of an under-construction building collapsed in Chittagong city. The boundary wall collapses on the children in Nandan Kanon area of the city when they were playing beside it, police said.
28 February 2016, 08:38 AM

Two children strangled by 'stepbrother'

Two children were strangled to death allegedly by their stepbrother in Comilla city yesterday.
27 February 2016, 18:00 PM