UNB A furniture shop was gutted by fire which broke out at Dhalagaon Bazar in Sadar upazila on Friday night. Mantu Biswas, warehouse inspector of Munshiganj fire service, said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at the furniture shop around 10 pm and spread soon.
UNB A septuagenarian man was killed in an attack allegedly by a young man over a trifling matter at Baruikhali village in Morelganj upazila on Friday night. Tarek Biswas, officer-in-charge of Morelganj Police Station, said Jabed Ali Mallik, 70, of the village, had an altercation with Razib Khalifa, 18, brother-in-law of Jabed’s son over a…
UNB A retired Sonali Bank official was found dead at a hospital in the city after family brought him there citing stroke early Saturday. Family members brought Gias Uddin Khan, 62, a retired official of Sonali Bank Ltd, to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital around 1 am saying he had suffered a stroke, said…
NUSRAT JAHAN PROGGA “Short Term 12” brings to the table a collision of emotions, with its tear jerking story of deprived and lost children hoping to be found. These kids are not like the typical runaway, cocaine-sniffer rebels you see in other movies. No, these kids represent us and people around us. The young and…
Md. Taqi Yasir Going all through the journey of Ralph Ellison’s first ever published masterpiece “The Invisible Man” was one heck of it. This is one of the greatest works of fiction about The Negroes, which Ellision portrayed beautifully. Random House publications first published this book in the year 1952. Ralph Ellison was born in…
Nusrat Jahan As I write this review I am thinking to myself “Is there a point to this”? I am sure that most of you book worms out there have already read the book and have fallen in love with it (unless you are Ursula and have a black hole instead of a heart). Hence,…
Md. Taqi Yasir T.S. Eliot was a pioneer to the English poetry who added a new level of dimension towards it. He included his poem into each and every part of his daily activities and a diversified worldly sense. T.S. Eliot’s poems influence many other writers and poets, to clarify out the cavernous meaning of…
Tarannum Sattar (Tarannum Sattar is a journalist and poet. Also, she has a cat named Miserable.) The room still smells of the perfume phial that you broke. The stench of cigarettes still haunt the blanket. As I sit in one corner of the four walls, They all remind me of you. I want to escape….
Nusrat Jahan (Nusrat Jahan claims to be a majestic unicorn who loves singing, writing, listening to rock music, and fangirling over actors from various Korean dramas ) He used his hands to pick up the earth. It was a dark hole, a grave, that he dug. He looked at his “friend” one last time, flashing…
Nusrat Jahan A dead life After months, Simone had finally stepped outside the box of concrete she was used to calling “home”. Her face was as insipid as usual and there was lassitude in every breath she took. Even the little Petunias that she adored failed to make her smile. Nothing but a rusty old…