August 1, 2015 started differently for the children of Distressed Children & Infants International's (DCI) Sun Child Home orphanage as they greeted Sabina Yasmin, the internationally acclaimed Bangladeshi singer with bright smiles to an eye screening camp in Kallyanpur, Dhaka.

The world is going through speedy urbanisation and Bangladesh is not an exception from this.

Contact lenses have become very popular in our country over the past 10 years or so.

Today, concrete structures are rising up, as if conscious of their aggressive contest to outgrow their neighbours, ever inclined to reach the highest skies while casting their grey gloom on the forgotten earth below.

Every two years the Asia and Oceania Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (AOFOG) holds the SS Ratnam- Young Gynaecologist Award (SSR-YGA) to honour gynaecologists from all over the world.

The lack of playing fields in our city has been a major reason for concern among Dhakaites, especially for parents and children.

Prelude to a Monsoon Evening

There is an apparent apathy in the nation's collective psyche towards the most precious lives of our society, the very soul of our future-- our children. Even unwittingly depriving our children of their physical and psychological nurture is a form of abuse.

Last month my sister got married and we hired a group of professional photographers for the event.

Dave Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, and producer.

What would have happened if Yamin Khan remained trapped in the role of a banker, typing away on his computer? The country would have missed out on his comedic genius, exhibited through his shows – that's what would have happened.

When she was just a child, her father used to frequently say, “My daughter is going to grow up to be a barrister one day!”

Whenever there is a crisis, there is a challenge faced by the nation; the youth of Bangladesh have come forward.

Eric Clapton is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

Torrential rain-triggered landslides and deaths are nothing new to us. Every year, at the beginning of the rainy season, the port city is forced to face the same catastrophe.

Organic molecules never previously observed in comets, a relatively varied structure on the surface but fairly homogeneous interior, organic compounds forming agglomerates rather than being dispersed in the ice: these are just some of first results provided by Philae on the surface of comet Churi.

Just a day after Eid-ul-Fitr, the country's biggest religious celebration, we woke up to the news of the unfortunate deaths of a woman and five children, in three separate incidents of landslides and wall collapse at Bayazid and Lalkhan areas of Chittagong due to heavy rainfall. Following the incident, the voice of concerned government officials could be heard over loudspeakers, as they requested people to move to safer places.

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

My passport (I want to always have the option to fly off), my phone (for very practical and not so practical (facebook) purposes) and my car.

Under the blue velvet clouds