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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Seven die after two boats sink
Seven bodies, including that of a five-year-old girl, were recovered yesterday after two boats capsized in the Padma river and the Bay due to strong currents and inclement weather.
29 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Non-aligned plea for world action on Bangladesh
Foreign ministers of about 50 non-aligned nations today approved a communique that included a plea for international action on the Bangladesh refugee problem.
29 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Form next EC with political consensus
The next election commission should be formed on the basis of political consensus, said Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda.
29 September 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Should’ve held her tighter’
“Why did I not hold her hand tighter?”
29 September 2021, 18:00 PM
How many must die before they wake up?
When open sewers in the port city have become a death trap claiming at least four lives in the span of just three months, the authorities concerned stay in a deep slumber instead of taking measures to prevent such deaths.
29 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Tokyo Revengers: Interesting Watch with Minor Flaws
Tokyo Revengers is no magnum opus, nor is it mediocre.
29 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Teacher Appointment, Transfer, MPO: Riddled with graft
The secondary education sector is mired by various forms of corruption and irregularities including unauthorised financial transactions in appointing head teachers and assistant teachers.
29 September 2021, 18:00 PM
The Motivations Behind the Move
The reasons for are simple, and complicated, as most things are.
29 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Land wasn’t registered as I did not have bribe paid
A state minister yesterday said he could not get a piece of land registered because he did not pay bribes at the sub-registry office.
29 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Financial Aid: Winning the Battle but Losing the War
Some things are much bigger than the financial subsidy you receive.
29 September 2021, 18:00 PM
#8E1600
It was 7:40, and he’s been waiting on the other side of the glass, waiting for a certain routine to fall into place, a disassembled camera long forgotten on the counter: a minute till his father came in for his daily dose of my-son-is-a-disappointment tirade,
29 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Payra Bridge to be completed by 2025
Construction of the Payra bridge, which a fourth-grade student Shirshendu Biswas demanded for in a letter to the prime minister in 2016, will be completed by 2025.
29 September 2021, 15:52 PM
USAID hands over 200 cyclone shelters to Bangladesh after repair
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) formally handed over 200 cyclone shelters to Bangladesh.
29 September 2021, 12:32 PM
Two dead after boat capsizes in Padma River
Two people drowned after a boat capsized in Padma River at Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj this afternoon.
29 September 2021, 11:43 AM
CEO Conducts Seminar on Internship Circulars
“After your internship, you'll get exclusive certificates in JPG format."
29 September 2021, 10:42 AM
Dengue cases cross 18,000 mark this year
At least two more dengue patients died while 217 patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till 8:00 am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Of the new cases, only 43 are from outside Dhaka.
29 September 2021, 10:40 AM
Property under illegal grabbers’ possession: Century-old Shri Shri Gouri Shankar Goshala Society in crisis
Shri Shri Gouri Shankar Goshala Society, an integral part of the heritage of Lalmonirhat town, is shambling with the financial crisis as a portion of its properties has been illegally occupied by a local influential, while some other portion was acquired by the government around 50 years ago.
28 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Crystal meth creeps up on city
There is a growing market for highly addictive drug crystal meth in the capital, operated mostly through encrypted messaging apps, officials have found out.
28 September 2021, 18:00 PM
No more brokers: DIP plans licensed agents for passport services
The Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) has taken a plan to introduce licenced “agents” to help people get passports and renew them.
28 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Russia, India call for urgent political solution
The Pakistan high commission in New Delhi today lodged a “vehement protest” to India in connection with the escape of four Bangalee members of its staff with their families while being taken by road to West Pakistan.
28 September 2021, 18:00 PM