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Signs are very alarming

The recovery of a sophisticated sniper rifle and military suits in Chittagong yesterday and Friday's suicide blast at an Ahmadiyya mosque in Rajshahi are alarming additions to the country's security situation, says a security analyst.
27 December 2015, 18:00 PM

STUPID REMARK, SCATHING REPLY

“Political speech over it [figure of Liberation War martyrs] is very unfortunate and unwarranted. This is a settled issue. There is no scope to argue over it. No one should give political speeches about it.”
26 December 2015, 20:25 PM

Goyeshwar goes crazy

In a flurry of outrageous remarks, BNP leader Goyeshwar Chandra Roy on Friday described the 1971 martyred intellectuals as "anti-
26 December 2015, 20:20 PM

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh will reunite to form 'Akhand Bharat': BJP gen secy

BJP general secretary Ram Madhav says that parts of India - including Pakistan and Bangladesh - which were separated 60 years ago, will reunite to form "Akhand Bharat" (undivided India).
26 December 2015, 13:49 PM

Richard Marx and Daisy Fuentes tie the knot

Richard Marx and Daisy Fuentes wed in a pre-Christmas ceremony in Aspen, Colorado.
26 December 2015, 08:38 AM

How smartphone light affects your brain and body

Checking your phone at night and before going to sleep seems like a normal habitual act, but it is some harmful than you think.
26 December 2015, 05:03 AM

United Hospital’s ‘sex offender’ nurse arrested

Rapid Action Battalion members arrest a staff nurse of United Hospital in Dhaka, suspected of sexually harassing a female patient, from the capital's airport area.
25 December 2015, 06:40 AM

Modi walks during national anthem, Russian official nudges him back

In an unusual incident, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was pulled back by a Russian official as he walked past the guard of honour accorded to him while Indian national anthem was being played soon after his arrival at the Moscow airport.
24 December 2015, 04:46 AM

Have faith in you

A hall room of Scholastica was abuzz with excitement as students were waiting yesterday to meet Bangladesh-origin British lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, a former student of the school.
23 December 2015, 18:00 PM

A murder in cold blood

He went out of his Mugdapara house in the capital for work around 7:00am yesterday like any other day.
22 December 2015, 18:00 PM

Nargis Fakhri’s Pakistani ad sparks online outrage

Bollywood actress Nargis Fakhri's advertisement on the front page of leading Pakistani Urdu newspaper Jang creates a stir over social media where people have condemned it by calling the advertisement "absurd".
21 December 2015, 14:20 PM

Khaleda kicks up controversy over 1971 war death toll

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia raises questions about how many people were killed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.
21 December 2015, 13:55 PM

Steady progress shows hope

Bangladesh showed an extraordinary progress in human development index (HDI) with an average annual growth of 1.64 percent in the last two and a half decades, which is the highest among the eight South Asian countries. Despite the progress, Bangladesh remains behind Sri Lanka, the Maldives and India on the latest global ranking with a static 142nd position in the HDI, according to the 2015 Human Development Report (HDR) released by the United Nations Development Programme at the planning ministry in Dhaka yesterday.
20 December 2015, 18:05 PM

Waste, but not useless

Many raised their eyebrows, some thought he was out of his mind when they came across Mohammad Elias' new business idea some 20
19 December 2015, 18:00 PM

16,000 tea workers face uncertainty

Hunger brought them here. They slashed and cleared the jungle, braving snakes, tigers, and malaria and set up the tea estates.
19 December 2015, 18:00 PM

Hoax: US woman ties knot with Bangladeshi rickshaw puller

A false post regarding an American woman falling in love and marrying a Bangladeshi rickshaw puller over his honesty spread like wildfire on the internet.
19 December 2015, 10:08 AM

Fixed price for Shakib, Tamim of Bangladesh at PSL draft

Bangladesh’s ace allrounder Shakib Al Hasan and his teammates Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Mustafizur Rahman and others will be selected at a fixed price at the player draft of Pakistan Super League (PSL) on December 21 and 22.
19 December 2015, 06:54 AM

A Changemaker's Journey

Two elderly women were seen crying near the Chandra intersection of Gazipur district which is one of the busiest highway intersections
17 December 2015, 18:00 PM

DU female student sets herself afire

A female student of Dhaka University allegedly tries to commit suicide by setting herself on fire at the Teacher-Student Centre (TSC) on the campus following a quarrel with her boyfriend.
17 December 2015, 15:26 PM

No freedom to poke fun?

On December 10, the government opened Facebook again possibly in view of proxy servers circumventing the ban and widespread
16 December 2015, 18:00 PM