As a young boy growing up in a tiny village close to the city of Sylhet in eastern Bangladesh, Bulbul hated his name so much that he started to refer to himself simply as “BB” once he hit puberty.

TIRUCHY: In what could change the dwindling popularity of cycle rickshaws in the city, which once used to see as many as 500 of them in the 1970s, a private institution based in Kerala is gearing up ...