Science teacher Hridoy Chandra Mondal was arrested on March 22 for hurting religious sentiments. But at this point, can this incident be set aside as merely an isolated event, or is it not an oozing example of a rotting society and the government caving in to fanaticism? Why were the students behaving in such a manner? Who recorded the audio? And why does the plaintiff himself not know how he was brought into this case? But the question that towers above all, what does this incident and its ongoing aftermath signify? Are we as a society gradually becoming intolerant?

It is not a typical Bangladeshi village fair. Here, seeds of various plants and crops are bought and sold. For the last 10 years, a local private organisation ‘Lokoj’ has been arranging this fair in Gangarampur union under Batiata, Khulna.

Social media has made having online friends a norm. The pattern of social interaction has gone through changes. People have accepted it as the new normal. Some might be lonely, and can easily find friends online or even a life partner through various dating apps.

After his big debut with Hoichoi Bangladesh’s “Mohanagar”, Ashfaque Nipun has come back with another series titled -- “Sabrina”.

According to the Roads and Highways Department, they will complete 44 projects this fiscal year.

Over the last 24 years, the Bangabandhu Multipurpose Bridge has been facilitating road transport between the north of Bangladesh and Dhaka. Number of vehicles, commuters and the amount of transported goods on this route have also increased during this period.

From a trade union leader to an actor, the life story of Mahbub Alam is like a movie plot.

The government has undertaken a plan to conduct a survey on Royal Bengal Tigers' food and habitat in the Bangladesh segment of the Sundarbans.

In the Middle Ages, Chattogram was one of the major hubs for the wooden shipbuilding industry. Ships from Chattogram used to be exported to places like Egypt, Turkey, and Germany.  

999 is an emergency hotline number that people can call anytime to receive help at any time. That is what was supposed to happen but oftentimes people have to wait 15 to 20 minutes on average for the calls to go through. People have also claimed to have waited up to an hour at times.

Plants in exchange of plants! If you have two cactuses of the same kind in your collection, you can trade one of them for a different plant.

How great would it be if underprivileged children enjoyed the same activities as regular school-going children? Every child has the right to a happy childhood, after all.

Among myriad discussions, criticism, obscene and hostile comments, one question pops up every now and then: “Why so much fuss over a teep?”

In the river, it looks like a wide desert. This stretch of white sand along the Dharla river in Lalmonirhat cannot be described as devoid of people. Because this char has been the home for a couple in their sixties for the past one and half years. They are the only people who live on this char.

Two canals in Cox’s Bazar have been leased out to Jubo League leaders for sand mining. And now the canals along with several forests, water bodies, and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park Cox's Bazar is now at an existential threat due to rampant and possibly illegal sand mining.

Falguni Datta Roy, a resident of Kolkata, has his ancestral home in Kishoreganj, which is now in Bangladesh. The 80 years of national separation failed to uproot him from his ancestry as he has been an avid collector of souvenirs and historical documents, paper cuttings, photographs, etc of Bangladesh and the Liberation War.

Dhaka’s air is one of the most toxics in the world; pitch-black polluted water runs through its rivers, canals; tap water contains hazardous chemicals and cholera pathogens; the traffic here are unbearable, the roads are death traps -- Dhaka has now become an unlivable city stuffed with over 2.2 crore people.

Four years later, Narayani Rani met her father. When she spotted him on the other side of the barbed wire at the Lalmonirhat border, she burst into tears.

Going abroad in hope of a better life, they become subject to medieval torture. A gang of criminals kidnap migrant workers luring them with promises of better wages.

Famous director SS Rajamouli released his new film “RRR” on March 25 and it has been a commercial success since the first day of release.