Reign in errant BCL cadres

Some Bangladesh Chhatra League men's continuing heavy handedness, we believe, is a direct result of the impunity being enjoyed by the errant party cadres.
23 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Another classmate arrested

Rapid Action Battalion arrested another classmate of slain schoolboy Md Rasheduzzaman Leon from Kewatkhali area in the town on Tuesday night.
23 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Invisible felons

The court appearance and subsequent bail of two former Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) cadres accused of brandishing and using firearms in an incident in Dhaka on October 27 is indeed a shocker to all.
22 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Youth builds solar-powered tricycle

Yousuf Sardar is a young electrician from Chandpur district who spent six months and Tk 17,000 to build a tricycle that runs on solar power.
22 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Five teachers for 700 students

A clever country invests in education. There can be no surer road to a nation's long-term betterment. But in remote
22 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Liakat's hobby

Liakat Ali, 60, of Porra village in Manikganj Municipality has collected more than three thousand historical metal
22 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Missing for 38 days!

We are shocked at the disappearance of Dr Muhammed Iqbal Mahmud, a medical officer of the Directorate General of Health Services, who was abducted 38 days ago from the heart of the capital by a gang of people riding a microbus.
21 November 2016, 18:00 PM

White canes for visually impaired

About 16 visually impaired people of Lalmonirhat Sadar and Rajarhat upazilas have received white canes for their
21 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Bogra parks safe haven for truants

The parks of Bogra town have turned into meeting places of students of educational institutions of the town during
21 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Boldness saves her from early marriage

A Class IX student of Basail upazila in the district has prevented her early marriage with the help of local
21 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Organic vegetables get popular

Enterprising farmer Shakhawat Hossain Liton, 40, from Shatbaria village in Jhenidah's Kaliganj upazila had a simple
21 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Visa for men, only if women go

It is with bewilderment and disappointment that we have learnt from this paper that the Saudi Arabian embassy in Dhaka is refusing to issue visas for male migrant workers because recruiting agencies are not sending enough female migrant workers.
21 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Netherland ambassador’s bag ‘stolen’ from DU

A handbag of Leoni Margaretha Cuelenaere, ambassador of the Netherlands in Bangladesh, has been allegedly stolen in a programme on Dhaka University campus today.
21 November 2016, 15:47 PM

40 lakh people will be climate refugees for Rampal plant: Anu Muhammad

Around 40 lakh people of the coastal belt near Sundarbans will be climate refugees if the much-talked-about coal-based power plant is implemented in Rampal, prof Anu Muhammad says.
21 November 2016, 13:11 PM

Expatriate Bangladeshis without passport

The irregularities and corruption that allegedly vex the passport sector have reached a new level with about 50,000 expat Bangladeshis in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Malaysia unable to get machine readable passports (MRP) although they paid the requisite fees more than a year ago.
20 November 2016, 18:10 PM

Justice for a murdered freedom fighter

Abdus Salam Khan, a freedom fighter, who not only fought to give this country freedom, but had also continued to fight for social justice and simply provide people with a ray of hope, was brutally murdered recently.
20 November 2016, 18:05 PM

Sukhi finally sits for exams

Sukhi Akhter, 10, who continued receiving death threat from the alleged killers of her father, took part in the Primary
20 November 2016, 18:00 PM

MMCH shifts panicky patients

The authorities of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) started shifting hundreds of patients to different
20 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh 3rd most peaceful country in South Asia: report

Bangladesh retains its position in the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2016 as it is the third most peaceful country in South Asia. Although the position remains the same the last year, the index puts Bangladesh on the 83rd spot globally, up on the 84th in last year’s GPI.
20 November 2016, 14:12 PM

'Faraaz always led from the front, we have all joined the battle he has begun'

On the dark night of July 1 in a Dhaka cafe, Faraaz lived up to his mother's teaching when he refused to desert his friends, though the terrorists gave him a chance to leave as he was a Muslim. He grabbed the sword in his right hand but was eventually killed for standing up to the brutes.
20 November 2016, 13:30 PM