In Focus / What Begum Rokeya knew about changing Bengali Muslims from within
7 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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A British witness to Bangladesh genocide: Val Harding’s 1971 story
30 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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Abul Hashim’s Bangalistaan
13 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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DHAKA, THE CITY OF ELEPHANTS / The lost history of Pilkhana’s elephant depot
5 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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156th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi / Gandhi’s search for harmony in Noakhali
28 September 2025, 18:00 PM
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Sandwip’s forgotten wars
21 September 2025, 18:00 PM
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Bridging the Partition through Education
17 August 2025, 18:00 PM
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Satyajit Ray’s ‘Tagore’ Films
11 August 2025, 18:00 PM
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Sound of the July uprising
3 August 2025, 18:00 PM
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Sandwip and the collapse of Portuguese ambition
27 July 2025, 18:00 PM
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BTRC shuts 178 unauthorised news portals
The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has shut down 178 unregistered news portals.
13 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Theft of garment items rising on Dhaka-Ctg highway
Highway theft is becoming a growing concern for garment exporters.
12 October 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Terror Attack Plot’: NRB gets 5-year jail in Australia
A Bangladeshi-origin man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison by an Australian court for planning a terror attack in Bangladesh, reports The Sydney Morning Herald.
12 October 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Who decides what’s popular?’
Being popular in Bangladesh is not an arbitrary process. Rather, players such as state organs, international and national non-government organisations, finance and business groups, and the media decide what and who will be popular,
12 October 2021, 18:00 PM
All screen and no play?
We are all familiar with the sight by now: everyone in a family—adults, children, parents—sitting together, but each concentrating on their personal device, usually a smartphone or a tablet.
12 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Can the regional be the national in Indian politics?
As India inches towards fresh general elections in 2024, there is a wind of change in the political landscape.
12 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Two Tangail villages lie neglected for decades
Sartiagazi and Pachh Arda still remained the two most neglected villages in southern part of Nagarpur upazila.
12 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Monem Khan shot dead
While commenting on Pakistan President Yahya Khan’s broadcast of October 12, 1971, a spokesman of the Government of Bangladesh stated today that the broadcast was another exposition of his own desperate situation in West Pakistan.
12 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Total debt to GDP hit a 13-yr high at the end of FY2020-21
Bangladesh is taking on increasingly higher levels of debt to fund its infrastructure spending, crucial for the economy to level up to a middle-income one by 2041.
12 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Khaleda Zia hospitalised
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was again admitted to Evercare Hospital yesterday for treatment and medical tests.
12 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Maxwell, Christian slam online trolls
Australia's Glenn Maxwell and Dan Christian on Tuesday slammed online abusers following their side's unceremonious exit from the Indian Premier League.
12 October 2021, 10:04 AM
‘I have given my 120% to RCB’
"I have given my best. I don't know how the response has been, but I have given 120% to this franchise every time, which is something I will now do as a player. It is a great time to regroup and restructure for the next three years with people who will take this ahead," the outgoing skipper said.
12 October 2021, 06:27 AM
Ireland's Amy Hunter becomes youngest international centurion
Ireland's Amy Hunter became international cricket's youngest centurion on Monday after striking an unbeaten 121 against Zimbabwe on her 16th birthday.
12 October 2021, 06:02 AM
Germany qualify for Qatar 2022 but Belgium made to wait
A Timo Werner double on Monday helped Germany stamp their ticket for the 2022 World Cup with a 4-0 win over North Macedonia, but Belgium will have to wait until next month after Wales carved out a narrow win in Estonia.
12 October 2021, 05:47 AM
DU Dormitories: The ghost of ‘Gono Rooms’ still haunts
Although Dhaka University authorities recently spoke of their desire to get rid of “Gono” rooms at dormitories, first-year students had no other choice than to cram into such rooms again as the residential halls fully reopened on Sunday after a Covid-induced closure of a year and a half.
11 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Swedwatch organises training programme on business and human rights
Swedwatch, a Sweden based non-profit organisation, organised a four day long online training programme on business, human rights and environment for youth in Bangladesh.
11 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Human Rights Council recognises the right to healthy environment
On 8 October 2021, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet urged states to take steps to implement the right to healthy environment.
11 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Laws protecting victims from cyber harassment
Even though Bangladesh claims to be a digitally progressive country, the cases of cyber harassment are continuously on the rise. In the view of recent public outcry against cyber harassment, people need to be made aware of the relevant laws to protect themselves.
11 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Apex court guidelines to ensure quick compensation for accidents
Accident is undoubtedly a regular phenomenon in the country. Families or well-wishers of accident victims approach the higher court of the country seeking appropriate compensation.
11 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Protected Forest: HC stays land allotment for civil service academy
The High Court yesterday stayed for three months a government order on allotment of 700 acres of protected forest in Cox’s Bazar for building a civil service academy.
11 October 2021, 18:00 PM