Police for People

If we peel back the layers of the most recent crimes such as the killing of children and the disturbing prevalence of violence against women...
2 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Of heroes and sedition

Two days ago, Ashis Nandy, the political psychologist, social theorist, critic, and a trained clinical psychologist...
1 March 2016, 18:00 PM

Sona Masjid Parjatan Motel in state of disrepair

The authority is yet to start repair work of Sona Masjid Parjatan Motel in Shibganj upazila under Chapainawabganj, three years after men
29 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Quick implementation for quick results

WITH the fiscal year crossing its halfway mark, discussions on the implementation status of annual development programmes (ADP)
28 February 2016, 18:00 PM

The next stage of global climate change policymaking

THE 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), which was successfully concluded in December 2015 with the adoption of the Paris
27 February 2016, 18:00 PM

The art of bullying

It is perhaps a primal instinct in all animals, to exercise control and power over the weak and the helpless. It is pretty much how the world has worked in the last few thousand years. Even among the earliest humans, it was the stronger group or tribe that dominated the physically less able, sometimes even
26 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Low cost herbal pesticide sees success

Use of herbal pesticide developed by a local farmer is gaining popularity among the farmers of Katabari union in Gobindaganj upazila
25 February 2016, 18:00 PM

The language problem

German painters are, therefore, more likely to paint death as a man while their Russian counterparts, as a woman.
24 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Outlaws active again in four SW districts

Cadres of outlawed parties killed at least 14 people since January 1 in Kushtia, Jhenidah, Meherpur and Chuadanga districts.
24 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Tobacco farming reduced in Jhenidah

While in many parts of the country hazardous tobacco farming is on the increase, from Jhenidah there is good news. Government officials and civil society activists have achieved considerable success in convincing the district's farmers to say no to tobacco.
24 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Accidents on rise as safety work incomplete

Different 'black spots' on Panchagarh-Dinajpur highway in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila see frequent accidents as work for construction of new jersy barriers (generally called road dividers) has remained half-done for around six months, making the road too narrow and risky.
24 February 2016, 18:00 PM

This was black and this was white

An op-ed can never afford a fiction. But then when real times across the globe are closer to fiction, one has the freedom to add colour and paint the canvas to share with the readers.
23 February 2016, 18:00 PM

The mad maddening election malaise

A SMS notification at two in the dead of the night would obviously, you think, be a text message of utmost importance, probably (pray
20 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Missing out on the zeitgeist experience

BRAVING the horrendous city traffic, I arrived at the 2016 Dhaka Art Summit (DAS) at Shilpakala Academy on a Sunday afternoon.
20 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Villagers suffer as road, culvert in awful state

Around 10,000 people of eight villages of Athorogachia union in Amtali upazila under Barguna district are suffering as the work for
18 February 2016, 18:00 PM

School students played glorious role in Language Movement

A large number of boys and girls of two high schools, inspired by their headmasters, joined the 1952 Language Movement in the then
18 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Feel the Bern

ALL bets are off - by winning New Hampshire's 2016 Democratic presidential primary, Bernie Sanders has done what was once
17 February 2016, 18:00 PM

You can't pass a donkey as a horse!

AT the risk of sounding “anti-growth” and “anti-exports” – and heck, of damaging the “image” of the country (because, apparently,
17 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Guardians demand removal of headmaster

Guardians formed a human chain in Goddimari area under Hatibandha upazila of the district yesterday, demanding removal of the
16 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Cooperative firm vanishes with depositors' money

Officials of a cooperative firm in Dumki upazila under the district have disappeared after embezzling several crore taka from over a
16 February 2016, 18:00 PM