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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Tigers on verge of making history
Bangladesh will stand on the verge of history when they take on the visitors in the third T20I at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
500 Indian MPs urge Thant to save Bangabandhu’s life
About 500 Indian MPs from all parties, except the Muslim League, addressed a memorandum to UN Secretary General U Thant urging him to save the life of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Tale of an upazila in throes of extremism
It was mid 2017. A group of about a dozen young men in Araihazar, Narayanganj, suddenly started telling their neighbours that the way of saying prayers at their local mosques was not right.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Delhi for quick implementation of agreement with Dhaka
India has called for quick implementation of the memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the field of disaster management resilience and mitigation.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Sheikh Kamal faced malicious campaign
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Sheikh Kamal used to lead a very simple life but faced a malicious campaign after surviving a futile assassination attempt in 1974.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Fizz the main hurdle in Australia’s challenge to adapt
“Man, he is a difficult customer. He is really good,” Ashton Agar said while wearing a smile that recognised that his side had its work cut out in dealing with Mustafizur Rahman’s cutters. Even for a spinner like Agar, it was something different.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Metaverse’: the next internet revolution?
Welcome to the metaverse: a vision of the future that sounds fantastical, but which tech titans like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are betting on as the next great leap in the evolution of the internet.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
AI whiplash: navigating the surprising aftermath of the pandemic
As the pandemic began to upend the world last year, businesses reached for every tool at their disposal—including AI—to solve challenges and serve customers safely and effectively. While every organisation will need its own playbook to recover from the AI whiplash and optimise its investment in the technology, a comprehensive plan should include five components:
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
What’s new on Netflix in August
Throughout August, Netflix will offer a stellar lineup of movies and series. There’s an exciting amount of mystery and action titles with Beckett but lighter stories and rom-coms like the Kissing Booth, Vivo and K-drama Hometown Cha-cha-cha are not to be missed as well. We’ve got lots in store for you this month, so keep reading to find out.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
The French revolution
Necessity indeed is the mother of all inventions, and the Renault 5 Turbo. Renault had to annoyingly road legalise the R5 Turbo in order to homologate the gravel going, rally racing variant in order to play with the other kids over in FIA group 3 and 4 rally racing (let me save you the recap, Quattro turned out to be a bully).
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Starting your career during a pandemic: the diary of a management trainee
For recent graduates, landing their first professional job in a virtual office amid a pandemic can be chaotic and confusing, as they transition from online classrooms to online meetings.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Pandemic muffles the music of musicians
The members of local orchestras commonly known as band parties in Tangail have been passing hard days as the number of programmes in which they are invited to play their musical instruments has reduced drastically since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Positive Side of Lockdown: Baby boom at Rangpur Zoo
Thanks to a quiet and peaceful atmosphere resulted from the absence of visitors due to lockdowns enforced to stem the Covid-19 pandemic, a good number of wild animals in Rangpur Zoo are giving births to offspring.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
How did authorities miscalculate the duration, scope of mass vaccination program?
The government has moved from the six day long mass vaccination program scheduled to begin from August 7 because the country lacks enough vaccine doses in stock.
5 August 2021, 15:39 PM
Moderna says Covid vaccine durable for at least six months
Moderna said Thursday that protection from its Covid-19 vaccine remained strong for at least six months, and the variant-specific boosters shot it is testing generated a "robust" antibody response to Delta.
5 August 2021, 14:57 PM
Govt orgs better than NGOs at disclosing info under Right to Information Act: TIB
Government organisations are doing better in comparison to non-government organisations in terms of proactive disclosure of information on the basis of Right to Information Act, according to a Transparency International Bangladesh study.
5 August 2021, 14:19 PM
Movement restrictions almost non-existent despite extension of lockdown
The ongoing lockdown has been extended till August 10. But, on the streets, restriction on movement is almost non-existent.
5 August 2021, 14:06 PM
Two associates of Piyasha placed on remand
A Dhaka court today placed Shariful Hasan alias Mishu Hasan and Masudul Hasan alias Jisan, associates of model and former TV presenter Faria Mahbub Piyasha, on different terms of remand in five cases filed under different acts.
5 August 2021, 13:36 PM
Central bank relaunches Bangladesh Bank Bill to mop up excess liquidity
The Bangladesh Bank today took a decision to mop up excess liquidity by way of allowing banks to invest their idle fund at an instrument namely “Bangladesh Bank Bill”.
5 August 2021, 13:04 PM
Cases against Pori Moni and Raaz handed over to DB
The two cases filed under Narcotics Control Act against Pori Moni and movie producer Nazrul Islam Raaz were handed over to Detective Branch of Police for further investigation.
5 August 2021, 12:35 PM