Bangladesh stands at forty six today and while we celebrate it, we need to take time to introspect as we observe our Victory Day. The winds of freedom blew across the land, across the villages and towns, but we paid a very dear price. There was bloodletting,

A soldier's oath is to lay down his or her life for their own country. In 1971, the Government of Bangladesh

From December 10, 1971 with active support of the Pakistan Army the young members of Al-Badr, the secret killing squad of Jamaat-e-Islami, started its operation to pick up the leading intellectuals of the country and confine them in

Henry Kissinger meticulously evaded the tragic events of the then East Pakistan. His strange diplomatic move deferred and delayed the surrender of Pakistan Army, and paved the way to the brutal killing of intellectuals on December 14, 1971.

That was the moment when I embarked into the college life leaving the high school years. My everyday mode of transportation for the long and wearisome road was rickshaw.

In 1946, I was a student of Class VI at Pabna Zilla School. That was an era of slogans like Ladke Lenge Pakistan or Bande Mataram. In the midst of the year, a new head Mawlana (Islamic teacher) joined our school, perhaps, having transferred from Jalpaiguri. His name was Kasim Uddin Ahmad.

A book is going to be published about the engineers who sacrificed their lives in our Libeartion War. It is so unfortunate that no genuine steps have yet been taken from the Bangladesh government to remember their contributions to the country.

December 14 will always be remembered as a black day in our history. The killing of our intellectuals by the occupation army of Pakistan and their cohorts on the eve of our victory stands out as the most horrendous and atrocious of acts

The 14th of October, 1971. It was 4:25AM in the morning, in the last few weeks of the Liberation War. The calls to morning prayer were about to begin. Lying in bed I heard someone knocking on the main door of our home in Barisal.

The ceramics industry is a booming manufacturing sector in Bangladesh. Over the years the industry has flourished

Bangladesh is a natural choice for ceramic production as it offers every option including a lucrative, expanding

The ceramics industry in Bangladesh has experienced exponential growth in recent times. The local ceramics

The Ceramic Expo Bangladesh 2017 is the first ever international exhibition on the ceramics industry in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is going through a growth momentum. To sustain the growth the country needs reliable and quality supply of energy at an affordable rate. The traditional sources of energy such as natural gas and coal are not adequately reliable and have negative

The Green Energy Research Centre (GERC) of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) has proved to be

The Centre for Energy Research (CER) of United International University has become one of the leading renewable energy research and consultancy centres in Bangladesh. So far it has successfully conducted about 100 renewable energy related projects.

The second season of the export idea contest “Rise High Bangladesh”, jointly organised by The Daily Star and Crown

To realise the full potential of digital technologies high-speed internet is a basic requirement.

In the digital age libraries are no longer archaic rooms of dusty books, but a gateway that provides seamless digital access to content—both text and audio-visual. With the establishment of UGC Digital Library (UDL) Bangladesh has made a qualitative leap in this regard.

EARLIER if you wanted to digitise a magazine article or a book you had to spend hours typing the content and correcting the typing mistakes. You can use a scanner or a digital camera to create an image or a snapshot of the document but the content cannot be edited.