Michelle Keegan has recently offered a glimpse into her marriage with husband Mark Wright, candidly discussing the changes that have taken place over the years. Nearly a decade after they exchanged vows at a grand ceremony at St. Mary’s Church in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, the couple has settled into a more routine, quieter life…
Miscreants allegedly set ablaze 350 acres of jhum land at Rengyenpara, Langkompara and Joychandrapara on 26 April 2022, following which several people were arrested. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) ordered the district administration and the superintendent of police to take legal action against the rubber company and rehabilitate the people of Mri and Tribura.…
Bangladesh is a country of natural beauty with world’s largest mangrove forest, longest sea beach and other tourist destinations like Kuakata and lovely Chittagong hill tracts. But the country has never successfully attracted foreign tourists. Especially after the 2016 terrorist attack in a Dhaka restaurant which targeted non-Muslim foreigners, the country suffered a huge blow.…
A team lead by archeologist Shahnaz Hossain has discovered two temples near the northern town Panchagarh. These temples are situated at sixteen kilometers away from the Panchagarh town. Archeologist Shahnaz Hossain has taken his PhD degree from India. His team has been doing excavation work since 2009. More excavation is needed to fully unearth these…
Legendary Indian actress Suchitra Sen was born in Pabna, the northern district of Bangladesh. She also spent her childhood there. Her family was migrated to India after the separation of India in 1947. Then their house was finally taken as vested property by the government. Now that house is being used as Kinder Garten School.…
Bangladeshis buy gorgeous new dresses on religious, social and national occasions like Eid, Puja, Pahela Baishakh, mother’s day or father’s day. But solvent consumers were buying foreign dresses some decades ago. Now most of them are choosing local brands. These dresses by local brands have the quality to compete with foreign brands and they are…
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF) are the border security force of Bangladesh and India respectively. The relation between the two forces was not always at the level as it should be. Many times BSF tried to take some portion of Bangladesh territory, ignorance of international law, shooting unarmed civilians including innocent…
The nation celebrated its 41st victory day today. On this day in 1971 about ninety three thousand Pakistani occupation forces surrendered to the joint forces comprising by Indian army and Bangladeshi Mukti Bahini. It was a war of only nine months, but it is one of the bloodiest wars of independence in modern history. Many…
Today is Martyred Intellectuals Day. It’s a day of sorrow for the Bangladeshis. In this day in 1971 India – Bangladesh joint force was on the verge of victory. Sensing the fact the Pakistani force and their local collaborators decided to kill some frontline intellectuals of the country. Doctors, University academics, journalists engineers were among…
Second edition of fourteen part Banglapedia is released. Banglapedia is known as national encyclopedia of Bangladesh. This encyclopedia contains information on history of Bangladesh, literature, culture, science and technology. First edition of Banglapedia was released in 2003 after thirty two years of liberation. Many prominent personalities tried to make an encyclopedia on this region. But…
Eid-ul-Azha is the second biggest Muslim festival. Employees of government, semi government, autonomous and private offices enjoyed three day long Eid holiday. Offices reopened today but attendance is lower than usual. Everyone is in festive mode. They are exchanging Eid greetings and hugging each other. Usual scene of traffic congestion is vanished. But some places…
Jasimuddin is famous for his poetry and other literary works on the village life of Bangladesh. Especially he highlighted the poverty and inequality. He dreamed a society of justice and equality. Many of the characters of his literature were from his observation of village life. Rupai and Asmani were two of them. Rupai died few…
Dhaka, specially old Dhaka has a long tradition of delicious Iftar items. Chawkbazar is synonymous to Iftar market of Dhaka. It has a long tradition, during the holy month of Ramadan residents of Dhaka swarm to the Chawkbazar Iftar market. As if this is the only one Iftar market in Dhaka. Many delicious Iftar items…
In 2004 Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ((ISESCO) taken a ten year long program to highlight Islamic culture and establishments around the globe. At that time it was decided that Dhaka will be celebrated as the capital of Islamic culture of the Asian region in 2012. Dhaka is a city of mosques; no other…
National committee for safeguarding oil and gas is a citizen’s committee formed by some prominent personalities in Bangladesh. This committee believes that natural resources of Bangladesh should be explored by the local companies. If there are some technical limitations, the local companies should take foreign help. But if the foreign companies get the full contract,…