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  • Dolly Parton, queen of country music, dies at 80

    Dolly Parton was around six when she wrote her first song: “Little Tiny Tasseltop,” an ode to her corncob doll with corn-silk hair. Her mother stored it preciously in a shoebox.”I loved that little doll,” Parton wrote decades later. “I expressed myse…

  • Mahdi Amin leaves Dhaka for three-day China visit

    Prime Minister’s Adviser and Prime Minister’s Office Spokesperson Mahdi Amin left Dhaka tonight for a three-day official visit to China at the invitation of the Chinese government to attend various international events and discussions on technical an…

  • What we lose when we reduce students to numbers

    Imagine a student who scores 98 in Bangla and 42 in mathematics. Which number do we notice first? We know the answer. The 42 becomes the concern, while the 98 becomes almost an afterthought.Maybe that student writes beautifully. Maybe she understands…

  • Bangladesh’s movie entry to the Oscars, what's in the film

    On her wedding night, Shahrin Dipa (Aanon Siddika) conveyed her profound sense of helplessness to her brother, describing her situation as a punishment without relief, a confinement offering no chance of reprieve. The story is set in the 1990s. Befor…

  • The story of Emmett Till

    The story of Emmett Till

    Emmet TillOn a chilly evening of 1 December 1955, at Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, an African American woman in her early 40s, boarded a city bus to return home after a long day at work. In those days, the buses were segregated, with the first fou…