A TRAIL OF TRAGEDY
It came without warning. Ferocious and violent. It lasted for just a few very terrifying minutes…and then it was gone. The unreal calm that followed
The Chahma are too small to be so fragmented and scattered, but there is little incentive for anyone to try and redress their condition.
On 15 August 1947, the Indian
As squabbling politicians paralyse the country, will popular demand bring the army out of the barracks?
For a company that once ousted both the party presently in power as well
History, climate, and the Bengali way of doing things conspire against a Bangladeshi presence in World Cup cricket.
More than a billion eyes are now glued on the Subcontinent, with
According to official figures, about 98 per cent of the 110 million people of Bangladesh are Bengalis — part of the larger Bengali population in the Indian states of West Bengal,
When Bangladesh became independent in December 1971, it turned to the international community for assistance to shore up the Tuined economy and to usher in "development" at last.
Like people, cities have phases of life: childhood, youth, old age. New York, for example, is an old man of a city: a dirty, cranky old man smelling of stale
Experts at the Floods Information Centre in Dhaka began to get concerned towards the last week of August because of heavy rainfall in Bangladesh and in the catchment areas of
