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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Miraz starts new innings with RAK Ceramics
Cricketer Mehidy Hasan Miraz today became a brand ambassador of RAK Ceramics Bangladesh Limited, a subsidiary of the Dubai-based multinational tiles and sanitary ware manufacturing and marketing company, said a press release from the company.
7 September 2021, 10:03 AM
Ceferin condemns FIFA’s biennial World Cup plans as threat to game’s jewel
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin on Monday said that holding the World Cup every two years, as Arsene Wenger has recently suggested, would "dilute" the tournament.
7 September 2021, 07:05 AM
Djokovic tries to put the 'Hammer' down in Slam quest
Novak Djokovic warns his Grand Slam quest faces a tough challenge from Italian sixth seed Marco Berrettini in the US Open quarter-finals as they meet in a third consecutive Slam.
7 September 2021, 05:45 AM
Oldest Test cricketer passes away at 98
John Watkins, who had been the world's oldest living Test cricketer, has died in Durban at the age of 98, Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced on Monday.
7 September 2021, 05:33 AM
Social media giants don’t listen to us
Facebook and YouTube often do not respond to Bangladesh’s requests to remove defamatory content from their platforms, said Posts and Telecom Minister Mustafa Jabbar yesterday.
6 September 2021, 18:00 PM
No Feasibility Studies Done: Ministry returns 4 railway project proposals
The Railways Ministry has sent back four development project proposals (DPP) prepared without any feasibility study.
6 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh wants to join UN session
The Government of Bangladesh wants to send a delegation to the UN General Assembly session in New York which is due to begin on September 21. Bangladesh’s Foreign Secretary Mahbub Alam discussed such a proposal today with the officials of the Indian external affairs ministry.
6 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Stay ready to tackle floods: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked all quarters concerned to stay prepared to tackle floods, as water levels of the rivers are rising.
6 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Business by day, Party by night: switching between office and party wear
Imagine a day when you are tired to the core after ‘back-to-back’ presentations at the office, but you also have to make it to a party after the excruciating hours, all because it’s your best friend’s bash and she is ecstatic about it.
6 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Good prevails
I wished I knew knitting, so that I may have used this time to knit a muffler for someone. After the lockdown was lifted in this teeming city of millions, it seemed to me that the people have come out on the streets with a vengeance.
6 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Army chief visits Indian brigade that entered Dhaka in 1971
Chief of Army Staff Gen SM Shafiuddin Ahmed visited the Indian Army’s 50 Independent Parachute Brigade, Wargaming Development Centre, Defence Image Processing and Analysis Centre and Indian National Defence College (NDC) in the last two days of his India visit.
6 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Geometry, the movie
The debut of filmmakers Piya Chakma and Shawon Khan — Geometry, the movie — is currently streaming on Amazon Prime in the USA and UK, and on Zee5 in over 190 countries.
6 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Italian food festival at Radisson Blu Dhaka
Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden presents ‘Festa Italia,’ an Italian Food Festival at its Water Garden Brasserie restaurant. Starting from 2 September until 18 September 2021, the hotel will be hosting an Italian themed buffet dinner consisting of Italian tastes, flavours and landmarks.
6 September 2021, 18:00 PM
A humanitarian cause: Chatro Somajkollan Foundation
Chatro Somajkollan Foundation seeks to aid the underprivileged in numerous ways. Founded in 25 March, 2021, it has been established to support the disadvantaged and needy in an attempt to ease their hardships.
6 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Basic Kneads – your new go-to specialty food shop
Launched in April 2021 by a group of food enthusiasts, coming from diverse backgrounds such as engineering and accounting, it is the sheer love for food that brought them together in order to start a specialty food shop. What started as a cloud kitchen after a prolonged process of product development through trial and error rapidly gained vast popularity.
6 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Amendment To Telecom Act: Govt set to clip BTRC wings
The telecom regulatory commission will be shorn of whatever independence and powers it has if the government presses on with the planned amendment to Bangladesh Telecommunications Act.
6 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Army chief's programme-packed schedule in India
Chief of Army Staff General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed, OSP, ndu, psc has visited the Indian Army’s 50 Independent Parachute Brigade, Wargaming Development Centre, Defence Image Processing and Analysis Centre and Indian National Defence College (NDC), in the last two days of his India tour.
6 September 2021, 16:42 PM
UK foreign secretary stresses on coordinated response to Afghan crisis in meeting with Momen
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has stressed on a coordinated international response on Afghanistan aimed at safeguarding regional stability, as he held a bilateral meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen today.
6 September 2021, 15:46 PM
The Impact of Unhealthy Competition on Children
Constant comparison can lead to the loss of individuality.
6 September 2021, 14:34 PM
Jamaat Secretary General Golam Porwar, 8 others arrested in Dhaka
Police detained nine leaders and activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami including its Secretary General Mia Golam Porwar from Dhaka’s Basundhara residential area this evening. He is also a former lawmaker.
6 September 2021, 14:23 PM