These include Iqbal Hossain Chowdhury’s “Boli”, Shankha Dasgupta’s “Priyo Maloti”, Amitabh Reza Chowdhury’s “Rickshaw Girl”, Akram Khan’s “Nokshi Kanthar Zamin”, Nurul Alam Atique’s “Peyarar Subash”, ...

After losing her 35-year-old auto-rickshaw driver husband Shaheed Manik Mian, 23-year-old widow Most Munni Akhter is now ...

The U.N. human rights office estimates that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over three weeks last ...

The U.N. human rights office estimates that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over six weeks last summer ...

Under the new directive, drivers who demand fares beyond the meter reading may face fines of up to Tk 50,000 or a six-month ...

This is a slightly edited version of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights’ report on 5 Aug, before and after. The edits were for grammatical and stylistic reasons.

Polluted air, laden noxious gasses or tiny, invisible particles that burrow into human bodies, kills 7 million people ...

China is back at it again. According to reports, Beijing raised objections to two Bangladeshi textbooks and a map on the Department of Survey’s website for not showing the northeast Indian state of ...

In this series, we explore what a lifetime of work has brought Dhaka’s low-income professionals, starting with rickshaw pullers. We also examine how Dhaka has changed through the eyes of those who hav ...

Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, Professor, Department of Public Administration, University of Dhaka, admitted that Islamist groups ...

An auto-rickshaw driver was declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the capital early Monday, hours after a group of miscreants snatched his three-wheeler by hitting him on the head with a ...