Millions mourn
The entire city stood in solemn tribute to Bangladesh’s first female prime minister yesterday.
31 December 2025, 21:00 PM
31 December 2025, 21:00 PM
Political parties must tolerate dissent and embrace diversity
Justice and accountability for the egregious human rights violations of the past is crucial, but the challenge lies in ensuring this is not done by repeating patterns of reprisal and retaliation, warned Sara Hossain, a senior lawyer at the Supreme Court, as she spoke about the role of political parties in protecting human rights.
9 December 2025, 18:00 PM
9 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Unsafe storage, system failure behind airport fire: probe
Automatic fire detection, suppression systems recommended
8 November 2025, 18:10 PM
8 November 2025, 18:10 PM
Journalists trapped in legal maze
More than a year since July uprising, at least 296 journalists and media managers remain entangled in cases linked to deaths and violence
1 November 2025, 18:00 PM
1 November 2025, 18:00 PM
Ministry drops independent commission from journo protection law
A draft ordinance prepared by the information ministry has omitted any reference to an independent media commission as proposed by the body tasked with media reforms.
28 October 2025, 18:11 PM
28 October 2025, 18:11 PM
NCP weighing its paths to JS
Nearly half of the NCP’s central leaders favour forging an alliance with the BNP ahead of the 13th national election in February.
11 October 2025, 18:00 PM
11 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Govt plans to form paramilitary force for airports
Named Aviation Guard Bangladesh (AGB), the force would comprise 7,650 personnel
29 September 2025, 18:02 PM
29 September 2025, 18:02 PM
Govt plans sweeping overhaul of NHRC
The government has drafted an ordinance to unshackle the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) from a 15-year bar on probing members of the security forces.
20 September 2025, 18:21 PM
20 September 2025, 18:21 PM
Not seen, not heard, not believed
Hearing stories that are not heard otherwise
7 December 2017, 15:40 PM
“Punish him, punish him!”
"I was so happy when I saw the madam of the house, I told her I'd do whatever she asked of me,” described Moyna. “She took me to a room and asked me if I wanted to shower after my long flight from Bangladesh.” Moyna said yes.
23 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Creating local armies in Old Town to fight for the environment
"How many of you are going to turn up if we do clean-up activities around the Buriganga river?" a panel speaker asked a room of
16 November 2017, 18:10 PM
Bangladesh's silent service to the world
Quite out of the public eye, a health organisation has been routinely sending experts to manage the diarrhoea and cholera epidemics that break out in conflict zones.
9 November 2017, 18:00 PM
How Trump is endangering undocumented Bangladeshi-American youth
A group of undocumented Bangladeshi-Americans are in a fix but there is no talk of it in their country of origin.
2 November 2017, 18:00 PM
Prison babies: childhood behind bars
What is it like spending the formative early years in one of the most overcrowded prison systems in the world? What protections are there in place to ensure they develop like any other child?
19 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Rohingya babies: To which country do they belong?
On May 18, 2008, the High Court granted citizenship to the Biharis who were brought over to Bangladesh as minors, or were born after independence. This brought an end to their statelessness, and opened up prospects of education, employment and travel to a community that had been cooped up in camps and refused repatriation.
11 October 2017, 18:00 PM
Why your drugs don't work
There are drugs that come as tablets or capsules and can be kept at room temperature. Then there are drugs that patients will not usually handle—reagents used by diagnostic centres to conduct tests or intravenous drugs administered by medical professionals.
21 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Early detection of birth defects – a far cry
This is the moment in history when Bangladeshi medical science marked a milestone by successfully completing the remarkable surgery separating the ten-month-old pygopagus twins Tofa and Tahura. Twenty-four doctors spent nine hours inside an operating theatre operating on the spine of the twins.
17 September 2017, 18:00 PM
What happened where [INFOGRAPHIC]
We map the shortest possible distances Rohingya families needed to take to reach Kutupalong Refugee Camp, as well as the destruction at Maungdaw and Rathedaung.
14 September 2017, 18:00 PM
Whimsical, political, subversive: A review of 'Tasher Desh'
There are no bright lights, no potted greens artistically arranged around the entrance, no indication that an exhibition is going on somewhere here in Arambagh.
7 September 2017, 18:00 PM
This time Dhaleshwari
Leather factories polluting again
31 August 2017, 18:00 PM
Separating morality from service
Learning about sexual rights from Uganda
17 August 2017, 18:00 PM
The government's got your tongue
Years of majoritarian Bangla education means that certain minority communities only speak their mother-tongue, and neither read nor write.
10 August 2017, 18:00 PM
The school across the river
Every time the weather takes a turn for the worse, school-going children in the haor are among the first to be affected.
13 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Finding the superbug, the invincible bacteria
Scientists find invincible bacteria resistant to all antibiotics in city locations
6 July 2017, 18:00 PM
Nobody to blame for the landslides
As the landslides wreaked havoc over Chittagong division in the last two weeks, there was one thing that everyone was at a consensus about – this was a man-made disaster.
22 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Before cancer: Treating arsenic early
First comes the wheezing. It happens decades before the skin lesions appear – the tell-tale signs of arsenic poisoning.
10 June 2017, 06:15 AM
Child abused at home, teachers helpless
Teachers are struggling with cases of sexual abuse and they do not have an effective social welfare system to turn to for help.
8 June 2017, 18:00 PM
Guilty of what?
With the court dismissing all the other complaints, the narcotics claim is the main battleground now. However, when the case is analysed, what comes up is that the law enforcers found only 45 yaba tablets. Twenty-eight men were sent to jail for it. Breaking down, it is 1.6 tablets per person only
25 May 2017, 18:00 PM