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A young farmer couple in Gujarat killed themselves by beheading using a guillotine like device, probably for a black magic ritual.

The first time I saw Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury was in 2007, for a story in our weekend magazine in The Daily Star, on his Nagar Hospital on Mirpur Road, where anyone, no matter how poor could get medical care at subisidised costs.

This India inspired collection could have opened floodgates for a genuinely high moment in fashion history In 1947, six months before India got independence from British colonial rule, Christian Dior unleashed another kind of revolution…

Senior journalist and human rights activist Husain Naqi will never forget that day in 1971 when he was sitting among other journalist friends and one of them mentioned that the breakup of east and west Pakistan into two separate countries…

It has not been possible to prepare an accurate and full list of freedom fighters over the past 52 years since the independence of Bangladesh. The Jatiyo Muktijoddha Council (Jamuka), which exercises legal authority to prepare the list of…

Rashmi Saksena recalls the scenes of horror and revelries she witnessed after Bangladesh won its Independence from Pakistani rule. She writes about cheering as well as the people in Khulna who seemed to be carved in stone after the horrors…

For decades, Mohammad Karim Dastagir thought of India as a ‘second home’, a country he travelled to for work, and the country where he met his wife Rifaut.

Despite a bumper harvest, prices down by half this year; contradicting laws also prevent implementation of MSP for the minor forest produce

As Khatera Hashmi smoothed the creases from her new salwar kameez—a confection in red and gold that she got for Eid—and arranged her daughter on her lap for a family portrait, a small frown appeared on her smooth brow. “I had told you,…

From Golden Retrievers, Dobermans to Labradors, all of Kolkata Police's dog squad are now beating the heat in style