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Dubai floods / Thousands of Bangladeshis stranded at Dhaka, Dubai airports
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'Genuine' SSC, HSC certificates for sale!
1 April 2024, 15:14 PM
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Counterfeiting currency / Learning from YouTube, he sells them on Facebook
28 March 2024, 14:43 PM
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Up close and personal with Nabela
It was some random night, while swiping through Instagram stories, and I saw Nabela Noor light up my screen and announce she was flying to Dhaka for a meet and greet on 14 September at the Lakeshore Hotel.
23 September 2019, 18:00 PM
How democracy backslides
We are living in a time which can no longer be described as a democratic era. Almost 61 percent of the global population now live
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Bangla natok and chill
There are over 40 privately run TV channels in the country, of which four are news channels, one music channel, and one is for
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Machines whirring at migratory bird sanctuary
Around halfway through the Jahangirnagar University campus one would notice age-old rusting signboards with caution warnings like
19 September 2019, 18:00 PM
9 prison doctors for 90,000 inmates
Over 23 inmates are dying every month, amid a shortage of doctors, nurses, and ambulances, and poor medical facilities in 68 prisons of the country.
16 September 2019, 18:00 PM
No rest in peace!
An Australian scientist has proved that human bodies move around significantly for more than a year after death, in findings that could have implications for detectives and pathologists around the world.
13 September 2019, 18:00 PM
The issue of Kashmir hits close to home
Ahmad Shafi* sensed the unrest in Kashmir before it happened. An MBBS student in Bangladesh, he was in class at Dhaka’s Green Life
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Revolution, Amity, and Decline
His role from the 1990s—Mugabe, the West’s all-too-convenient bogeyman and hobgoblin—tended to outweigh other considerations.
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Caught Between Life and Traffic
The 17-year-old girl had overdosed herself with multiple drugs. She was first taken to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College in
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Primary education in Bangladesh: All exams and no learning
Most of the time, however, one of her parents takes her to school and they carry her schoolbag for her. On the way to school,
12 September 2019, 18:00 PM
French rooster triumphs in battle over right to crow
The owner of famed French rooster Maurice emerged victorious on Thursday from a legal battle with her neighbours over his early-morning crowing, with a court upholding the bird's right to sing in the day.
6 September 2019, 12:21 PM
About Town
Organiser: National Crafts Council of Bangladesh and Bengal Foundation
5 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Traitor memories
“They say when you take a picture, you end up saving that moment forever. They are wrong.
5 September 2019, 18:00 PM
From victims to villains: The changing discourse on Rohingyas
Yet another attempt to send Rohingyas back to Myanmar ended up in an embarrassing debacle last week: Not a single Rohingya
5 September 2019, 18:00 PM
We are what we remember
When Nana was 24, he saw Muslims slaughtered in prayer. As men prostrated before God, the cold of steel met the warmth of flesh,
5 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Miscarriage in the tea gardens
“We can read it ourselves inside our homes but we can’t organise a reading circle to share the contents of the manual, without
5 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Chinese firm creates first cloned kitten
Seven months after Huang Yu’s pet cat Garlic died, the British shorthair was given a 10th life.
Born on July 21, the new Garlic was created by Chinese firm Sinogene, becoming the Beijing-based company’s first successfully copied cat.
5 September 2019, 18:00 PM
Amazon to offer help for customers who search about suicide
Amazon.com Inc plans to promote helpline phone numbers to customers who query its site about suicide, the company tells Reuters, after searches on its site suggested users search for nooses and other potentially harmful products.
30 August 2019, 07:24 AM
Life after a fire
Sitting on a bench on the premises of Bangabandhu Bidyaniketon, 50-year-old Majeda Begum was crying. She wasn’t the only one.
29 August 2019, 18:00 PM
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
A tiny red gate jostles for space among shops, apartments, and the flurry of traffic in Block F of Lalmatia in Dhaka. Like the name
29 August 2019, 18:00 PM