Opposition not in parliament for idle talk or history lessons: Jamaat ameer
1 May 2026, 19:32 PM
Politics
Porsche to launch all-electric Cayenne Coupe
24 April 2026, 15:15 PM
Tech & Startup
Shift / F1 2026: How a rule change turned motorsport into 'Mario Kart'
15 April 2026, 15:33 PM
Tech & Startup
Shift / Avik Anwar wins UAE touring car title after final-round victory
12 April 2026, 18:17 PM
Tech & Startup
Jamaat alleges voting irregularities in Bogura-6 by-polls, Sherpur-3 election
9 April 2026, 15:02 PM
Bangladesh
'If one can't be appointed without party affiliation, that is unfortunate'
7 April 2026, 17:42 PM
Parliament
Artemis crew reaches the moon, approaches record-breaking distance from Earth
6 April 2026, 16:39 PM
Science
Govt to import 2 lakh tonnes of urea
18 March 2026, 02:40 AM
Bangladesh
Khrushchev’s Secret Speech: The 4 hours that shattered Stalin’s empire
25 February 2026, 19:08 PM
Historical
Man stabbed to death in Jashore
20 February 2026, 23:03 PM
Crime
Right policies to tackle crisis vital
With global food and fertiliser prices alarmingly high already, the government must come up with policy responses to offset the increase in
27 July 2022, 18:00 PM
‘Persuasion’, ‘Bridgerton’, ‘Emma.’ What’s missing from these quirky period dramas?
Studios seem to think female characters need to be glossed with a “zany” and “feisty” persona in order to be relevant.
27 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Ali Riaz’s ‘More than Meets the Eye’ and a writer’s responsibility
Writers and intellectuals are obligated to stir moral indignation at gross injustices and the plight of the masses.
27 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Mundanities, magic realism, Bangladesh—Shahidul Zahir’s novellas
The personal space is the same as the political sphere, the individual on the same strand as the collective.
27 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Unconventional narrators dominate the 2022 Booker Prize longlist
Glory is narrated by a vivid chorus of animal voices, while Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is partly told by the malevolent cancer travelling through the body of protagonist Lia.
27 July 2022, 12:10 PM
Stocks rise for second day
Stocks in Bangladesh continued to rise for the second consecutive day today, thanks to the buying tendency among institutional investors.
26 July 2022, 11:07 AM
July’s ULAB Literary Salon discusses Bangladeshi short story anthologies
An engaging discussion on translations unfolded at the event.
26 July 2022, 07:48 AM
Devote yourselves for the interest of people: PM to public servants
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (July 23, 2022) asked the public servants to devote themselves to the welfare of the people who pay taxes for their salaries, comforts and luxuries.
23 July 2022, 08:57 AM
Revelling in nature
If you are planning a vacation or having a break from work, there is hardly a destination better than Cox’s Bazar.
22 July 2022, 18:00 PM
1,104 new Covid cases and 1 death recorded
The health directorate yesterday reported just one death from Covid-19, down from eight the previous day.
20 July 2022, 18:00 PM
The retrospection of Christopher Isherwood: A man exploring the heart of falling Berlin
Perhaps his most significant occupation was one as a diarist who took it upon himself to document his life as he moved through some of the most interesting scenes of human history.
16 July 2022, 13:48 PM
Sudden Jamuna erosion makes many homeless
Sudden erosion by the Jamuna river has devoured several homesteads and vast farmlands within a few hours at Mazzan village in Sirajganj’s Shahzadpur upazila last week, creating panic among the villagers.
13 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Homegoers get stuck in tailbacks
People going to their hometowns from Dhaka to spend Eid suffered immensely due to shortage of buses, long tailbacks on the highways and delayed trains.
8 July 2022, 18:00 PM
9.87pc pass in DU Kha Unit entry test
Only 9.87 percent students passed in Dhaka University’s Kha Unit admission test for the academic session of 2021-22.
27 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Commentary by Mahfuz Anam: Sheikh Hasina’s ‘finest hour’
Borrowing from the title of the second volume of Winston Churchill’s six-part history of the Second World War, I would like to term the completion of the Padma Bridge as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s “finest hour”.
24 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Boy killed in landslide
A 12-year-old boy was killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Chattogram city’s Sholoshahar early yesterday.
20 June 2022, 18:00 PM
‘Let’s go home; let’s go to Myanmar’
Thousands of Rohingyas yesterday held a rally in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar -- to tell the world that they want to go back to their homeland Myanmar, marking World Refugee Day.
19 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Covid positivity rate highest in 16 weeks
As the country’s Covid-19 positivity rate yesterday stood at 5.76 percent -- the highest since February 22, Health Minister Zahid Maleque urged people to take the vaccine booster shots.
16 June 2022, 18:00 PM
15 killed in South Africa bus collision
Fifteen people were killed and 37 injured yesterday when a bus and a truck collided on a South African highway near the capital Pretoria, an emergency services spokesman told AFP.
10 June 2022, 18:00 PM
WB revises down growth forecast for Bangladesh
Taking into account the Ukraine war, the World Bank reduced Bangladesh’s economic growth projection to 6.7 percent for the next fiscal year from its January forecast of 6.9 percent.
7 June 2022, 18:00 PM