family

When parents get better at parenting, but for your younger siblings

Parents can be nicer to younger siblings as they learn the art of parenting, but how does that make you feel?
4 September 2022, 17:00 PM

The Connotations Around “Broken Family”

Raising a child is no easy feat. Single parents have to fulfil the roles of both a mother and a father.
1 September 2022, 00:00 AM

4 Types of People Who Weaponise Facebook in Family Feuds

Bengali folks who seek refuge in Facebook in times of domestic war.
4 July 2022, 11:31 AM

The responsibility of taking care of ageing parents

Your parents ask for you at their hour of need, how do you respond?
26 May 2022, 00:00 AM

Growing up a third culture kid in Bangladesh

Third culture kid describes children who grow up in cultures other than those of their parents.
11 May 2022, 19:12 PM

Gift ideas for sick family and friends

Here are some gift ideas and creative gift basket ideas for a sick friend or family member.
27 February 2022, 11:43 AM

When a Loved One Has Dementia

What if someone you love lost the ability to cherish memories?
7 July 2021, 18:00 PM

Middle Child Myths, Debunked

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

Our Relationships With Our Fathers

The relationship we have with our fathers is beyond complicated.
3 July 2019, 18:00 PM

Football: Van Gaal ends coaching career after family tragedy

Former Manchester United and Netherlands manager Louis van Gaal has ended his coaching career following a family tragedy, Dutch media reported on Tuesday.
17 January 2017, 09:17 AM

Cricket: Proud Cook admits to wrench of leaving family

Alastair Cook admits to questioning how much longer he can extend his record-breaking England career, torn between the pride of playing for his country and the wrench of being parted from his young family.
19 October 2016, 08:16 AM

Cricket: Angered family walks out on final day of Hughes inquest

The family of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes walked out of an inquest into his death after a submission from the lawyer for Cricket Australia that the coroner should not rule on claims the batsman been subject to threatening language.
14 October 2016, 06:25 AM

Girls face broken dreams as Nepal fails to curb child marriage

Child marriage is illegal in Nepal, yet the impoverished Himalayan nation has failed to put in place policies to curb the practice with almost 40 percent of girls married before the age of 18.
9 September 2016, 08:52 AM

The changing Bangladeshi family

The conventional family structure is changing, but our constant need for their support and love is ever present. As we become more and more nuclear and independent, the greater is our need for family bonds.As we celebrate the International day of families, let us take a glimpse into the lives of changing family dynamics.
15 May 2016, 06:49 AM

Compensate Jihad's family

The High Court yesterday ruled that the government would have to compensate the family of Jihad, a four-year-old who died falling down a 300-foot well shaft in the capital's Shahjahanpur in 2014.
18 February 2016, 18:00 PM

SQ Chy's wife, son indicted

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against the wife and son of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and five others for allegedly leaking the draft verdict of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that sentenced him to death.
15 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Families now threatened

Families of the two tortured children received threats of “eviction” from their houses at Chowbaria village in Poba upazila two days after filing of a case over the torture.
15 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Gas crisis hits city

Tahmina Afaz is a schoolteacher and lives at Ulan in the capital's West Rampura. She doesn't start for work until 7:30am, but since winter began, she has been waking up long before sunrise. "If I get up any later than 5:00am, I cannot finish cooking for my family before I go to work. The gas supply falls after sunrise, so much so that sometimes I cannot even turn the stove on," she says.
23 January 2016, 18:00 PM

11-year-old house help dies of burns

Eleven-year-old domestic help Joba Akhtar, who on Friday suffered severe burns inside a city flat, died at a hospital yesterday, leaving
9 January 2016, 18:00 PM

3 kids burnt to death in Jhenidah

Three children were burnt to death in Kabirpur village of Shailkupa upazila last night as one of their family members allegedly set fire to their house over family feud.
3 January 2016, 18:00 PM