With an average annual income of around $2,000 most Vietnamese does not consider themselves especially wealthy. But in the afterlife you can be a billionaire thanks to paper offerings made by your scions.

The early '80s was not a good time for young Nobo Kumar. "Because of the financial difficulties my family was going through at that time, I had to drop out from school," Nobo recollects.

The mango season is over but the craving for this delicious fruit lingers on in our taste buds.

China's He Zi receives the shock of her life when teammate and boyfriend Qin Kai rushed up with a diamond ring during the medal ceremony of the women's 3 metre springboard event, marking the second marriage proposal of the Olympics.

People from all walks of life are observing the National Mourning Day with due respect and solemnity, marking the 41st anniversary of assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The night still shadowed the whole nature with its deep black curtain. It was around 4:30am. Four people at the radio office in Dhaka's Shahbagh just fell into exhausted slumber following a late night programme that ended at 2:00am.

It was around 3:00am of August 15, 1975. Preparations for carrying out a barbaric assassination were almost done. Major Syed Faruk Rahman, one of the masterminds of the massacre, was sitting on a stool in front of the lancer unit headquarters in Dhaka Cantonment. An operation map was open on his knees. Execution of which would send a massive blow to the newly independent Bangladesh. Major Khandaker Abdur Rashid, another mastermind, was standing beside him.

It was not dawn yet. A false dawn spread its pale light across the sky. At House 677 of Road 32 in Dhanmondi, it was time to change guards while everybody was still in deep sleep: President Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, wife Begum Mujib, sons Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal and Sheikh Russell, daughters-in-law, and brother Sheikh Naser.

In early July, Betsy Davis emails her closest friends and relatives to invite them to a two-day party, telling them: "These circumstances are unlike any party you have attended before, requiring emotional stamina, centeredness and openness."

The other day I was going to my office in Motijheel by a rickshaw. As I was having a conversation with the elderly rickshaw

Ayub Bachchu is a singer, a lyricist, a composer and also the founder of the country's one of the leading bands, the LRB. He

The number of athletes who are representing Bangladesh in the Rio Olympics in Brazil this year. Bangladesh had made its debut

On July 28, 2016, we lost a mother – a mother who taught us to dream, who coached us to speak for the rights of others and

I do not know how many times I passed by Ramna Park, but unfortunately I never thought of learning it’s history.

“Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.” – Pablo Neruda

This year, one of the most devastating floods in the last ten years of Bangladesh has affected 3.4 million people mostly in the northern districts of the country.

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As scientists and policymakers around the world try to combat the increasing rate of climate change, they have focused on the chief culprit: carbon dioxide.

During the drier seasons from November to March, anybody visiting the northern districts of Bangladesh will come across a

It was ten minutes past nine, however, the populace outside Shahjalal International Airport showed no signs of lateness of the night.