MINISTER CAMPAIGN FOR AWARENESS ON VIRUS, INFECTS LITERALLY EVERYONE
An arrest warrant was issued for Minister of Footpaths Abdul Kander for inadvertently spreading the newest strand of the now highly contagious Dengue virus during his awareness campaign against it.
20 March 2020, 18:00 PM
The million ants’ migration
It was supposed to be a match made in heaven. Until international politics came to the fore.
21 February 2020, 18:00 PM
What’s wrong with my finger?
Did the electronic voting machine fail to recognise your fingerprint? Were you told your fingers weren’t moisturised enough? Were you shamed for your sweaty hands? Were you called old? The truth behind why your fingerprints weren’t recognised is not that simple. Here’s the truth. Brace yourself:
7 February 2020, 18:00 PM
Just want to be loved: EVM
Osami Garbwell makes a spectacular return to interview the most talked about person in town: Electronic Voting Machine. The following are excerpts from the interview:
31 January 2020, 18:00 PM
The misleading claims
Suu Kyi: Please allow me to clarify the term clearance operation. Its meaning has been distorted. As early as the 1950s has been used against communists. It simply means to clear an area of insurgents or terrorists.
11 December 2019, 18:00 PM
The cost of citizenship
Shuttered shops and vacant alleys present quite a different picture of the usually bustling corridors within Geneva Camp, located in the capital’s Mohammadpur.
24 October 2019, 18:00 PM
Cops arrest 11 more burglars
The crackdown against burger joints around the city reached new heights after a chain of burger-peddlers, known as burglars, was
26 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Former religious, genocidal party forms new non-religious, genocidal party
Rudolph Shitler and Joseph Phony yesterday shocked the world by joining hands in what has been dubbed by the media an “unholy
9 May 2019, 18:00 PM
Murders he wrote
A politically-affiliated murderer may just be planning his big comeback. At least that is what the locals in his area believe. For them, it is a nightmare come true.
26 April 2019, 18:00 PM
Suhrawardy Evacuation: Heroes born out of blaze
Around 5:00pm, Dr Noor Ahmed Talukder along with others was in the middle of an operation at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital.
16 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Satire: SomeBODI that I used to know
The #ThoughtsandPrayers agency in heaven went into delirium on Saturday when famed anti-drug activist Baby Boudee held a milad-e-mehfil, requesting divine intervention to rid the country of the scourge of drugs.
29 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Let's Football
Football fever has reached its peak all over the world over due to the ongoing FIFA World Cup. However, Bangladesh's foray into the global sport was met with deafening criticism, owing to widespread allegations of corruption in the augural Independent Cup of Digital Democracy (ICDD).
12 July 2018, 18:00 PM
RELISHING RAMADAN
The coming month of Ramadan brings forth two widely different forms of enjoyment: one being the fast and the other the breaking of
9 May 2018, 18:00 PM
No child left behind
Ex manus capere. Detach from the hand.
3 May 2018, 18:05 PM
Bank of the bold
Bangladesh International Vote Banking brings you the opportunity to avail dead people votes, double votes, interest-based group votes, and much more, all designed in ways to suit you.
19 April 2018, 18:00 PM
New names, new solutions
Kamrul Hussain, a small trader in Cumilla, sits sprawled across a sofa in his comfortable two-room apartment in the city. He is gloating. “I cannot wait for us to become a developing country. I might actually be able to buy this place if that happens,” he says.
5 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Do you take cards?
If you like eating out, then you must have asked the title question, more than once in your lifetime. In Dhaka nowadays, the answer to
4 April 2018, 18:00 PM
Reporting Trauma Empathy Not Sympathy
The recent BS211 crash went down as one of the gravest chapters in Bangladesh's aviation history. But before the dust had settled and the survivors had a chance to process their grief, rampant media speculation turned the spotlight to the conduct of the newsmen themselves.
22 March 2018, 18:00 PM
Flight of the survivors
It was a momentary respite from a black chapter for many people. This particular Biman Bangladesh flight BG072 from Kathmandu to Dhaka was carrying Almun Nahar Annie, Mehedi Hasan and Kamrunnahar Shwarna -- three survivors of the BS211 air crash.
16 March 2018, 18:00 PM
A return no one ever expects
Almun Nahar Annie, one of the survivors, had been refusing to go back to Bangladesh. Last night though, she finally changed her mind. Annie lost her husband FH Priok and their only child Tamarra in the BS211 crash. What does she have to go back to?
15 March 2018, 18:00 PM