If you find a group of pedestrians staring, transfixed by a subtle yet imposing graffiti on a wall, don't be surprised. In parts of Dhaka,

As soon as the clock strikes 12:00pm, an army of workers descend upon the footpaths and roads in front of Chawkbazar Shahi

I remember my failed attempts to draw the convoluted coast of Bangladesh during art classes possibly 25 years ago.

Though the country was liberated on December 16, 1971, Mirpur was freed much later -- on January 31, 1972. As the area was pre-dominantly inhabited by Biharis, the intensity of killing of Bangalees here was grave. Mirpur was also the last battlefield of the Liberation War.

Shahin is no Priyanath Bose. Nor does his outfit come anywhere near the Great Bengal Circus. Yet he is carrying forward the legacy of circus in Bengal through thick and thin.

It was an evening of winter in December. The sun was hanging on top of the mound on its course to say goodbye for the day. The

After its founding, Dr Rashmohan Chakravarty and Mahesh Chandra Bhattacharya himself worked to expand it

This is the beginning of the Hollywood film – Spotlight -- that won the Oscar as the best picture of 2015. To win the

King Bhumibol Adulyadej's pivotal role in modern Thailand's development tends to obscure the fact that when he acceded to

No one in the history of the Kingdom of Thailand has done so much to improve the well-being of its people as His Majesty

If you are an early riser and want to take a stroll around the port city before it gets busy, you can consider the

I could swear it was the same market and the same bridge where the man-eating leopard used to stroll 90 years

From designing the Swadhinata Sthamba to working on a number of award-winning projects, Marina Tabassum has come a long way. It

The narrow “main” roads filled with potholes and iron rods plunging out, the scorching afternoon heat and a destination unknown to

It is common knowledge now that the Sundarbans is home to globally endangered species like the Bengal Tiger but it is news to most that our Sundarbans also supports critically endangered species like the River Terrapin or the endangered Fishing Cat. Both of these species are undergoing a sharp decline and disappeared from most of their ranges throughout Asia.

Just past the bridge that connected the Tea Estate to Chunarughat Upazila, however, you could hear loud voices

Right now, we can only see celestial objects that emit electromagnetic radiation -- visible light, X-rays, gamma rays, and so on. Visible light can get absorbed or reflected before it reaches our telescopes, leaving us with a cruddy view of things.

There was this pretty clever guy 100 years ago who said this is happening all the time. But we didn't know for sure until we finally managed to build a machine – like a giant ear – so we could to listen to it.

1915 - Albert Einstein publishes general theory of relativity, explains gravity as the warping of spacetime by mass or energy

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is designed to open the field of gravitational-wave astrophysics through the direct detection of