Three shot at in a house, two survive
Sanjida was hit with a bullet in the lower abdomen as she turned to step inside the room with her daughter, who stepped out onto the balcony a while before...
Tags : student-mass uprising
Left with none to earn bread and board
Syed Mostafa Kamal Raju, a father of three, left his house at Siddhirganj in Narayanganj after he had heard helicopters hovering above and gunshots on July 20. He was shot in the head...
Girl orphaned 75 days after birth
Sumaiya Akter stepped out onto the balcony at her parents鈥� house at Siddhirganj in Narayanganj in the evening of July 20 as a helicopter was flying past amidst the sound of gunshots.
Managing change in cultural sector
CULTURE is the聽integrated聽pattern of human knowledge, belief and behaviour, as the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines, that depends on the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations. True it is that the existence of culture depends on its power of dissemination. Dissemination of knowledge can be of two types...
Public servants should stand equal as others in eyes of law
THE police have decided not to arrest any public servants without specific information and evidence in cases filed in connection with the student-mass uprising that spanned July and August. The police have also decided to drop the names of public servants and other individuals accused in such cases if their involvement is not proved in preliminary...
Death came calling for Rabbi
Asma stared at a photograph, mounted in an album that she spread out, sitting on the bed in a rented one-room house at Dayaganj in Dhaka on September 9.
The last smile at mother
He stopped short for a while only to glance back at his mother with a smile before stepping out of the house near Dhupkhola field in Old Town of Dhaka at about...
Mother wants聽state to recognise son鈥檚 sacrifice
Bibi Ayesha had toiled day and night as a household services worker to rear her four children in Dhaka, the city she had hardly known.
Father to never call little daughter 鈥榤y princess鈥�
Clothing trader Muhammad Zan Sharif will never anymore call his eight-year-old daughter Zara 鈥榤y princess鈥� as a bullet took his life during the student movement for quota reforms in...
Little Tasfia left orphaned
Bappy Ahmed loved his daughter Tasfia, four years and a half old, so much that he used to take her wherever he went and would do anything to make her every wish come true.