It was sometime in June of 1974. Some army officers including Major Faruk and Major Rashid had gathered at the residence of Major General Ziaur Rahman, then deputy chief of army.

Being the foreign minister he engaged in a conspiracy to foil Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971 and wanted to keep Pakistan united. In independent Bangladesh, he joined another conspiracy to overthrow Bangabandhu's government.

The government is going to give back law enforcement agencies the responsibility of investigating fraud cases filed by private citizens, a job the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has been doing since 2013 despite manpower shortages.

Malaysia has always acted mysteriously when it came to hiring workers from Bangladesh.

The killers are doing their work. Are we doing ours? Need we answer?

Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (Brri) has successfully developed a second breed of zinc-rich rice which grows faster, gives better yield and is of better nutritional values than its predecessor.

Import-export firm AVIATE International was in desperate need of Tk 15 crore loans since the start of 2012 to keep its business afloat. Its owner somehow came to know that Sheikh Shariar Panna, younger brother of the then BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu, could arrange a quick loan for the firm.

The government has decided to purchase modern equipment worth more than Tk 200 crore to step up mobile phone, email and social network surveillance.

The inhabitants of an erstwhile Indian enclave in Lalmonirhat never had the courage before to raise their voice against the land grabbers as they had no legal protection and feared attack by the culprits.

Now that they have a country to belong to after nearly a seven-decade wait, a new struggle begins for the people of Dashirchhara, a former Indian enclave in Kurigram. They now have to find jobs. Hoping that Bangladesh government would allocate funds for the development of the newly acquired areas, people of Dashiarchhara have started putting up signboards of educational institutions all around.

Ratan Miah and his neighbours in Banshkata had good reasons to be happy yesterday. They not only became citizens of Bangladesh, after the enclave exchange, but Ratan also got to marry the girl of his dreams.

As the only floating guava market in Jhalakathi, Vimruli attracts orchardists keen to sell their daily harvest from across the district.

Economic emancipation and professional success can be achieved through reading textbooks but creative and sophisticated non-

I thought she was long dead.

As the deadline nears for the enclaves to cease, things are changing fast.

For years, they were best friends. They used to hang out together as their circle of friends was the same. They shared their joys and

“We can go to hospitals now. We will find jobs. We won't have to go to India in search of work.”

It is nothing compared to the greatest migration in history when people moved like ants to cross borders into Bengal and Punjab. There will be no violence and death stalking them at every footstep. And yet there will be many similarities.

It was like any other mundane day for Aziza Rahman, the sixty-year-old man - except that he landed in jail.

He led a band of ruthless killers and teamed up with the Pakistan occupation army to massacre over a hundred unarmed civilians and loot and destroy village after village in Chittagong during the 1971 Liberation War. The brutality of the self-proclaimed brigadier gained such notoriety that people in their thousands fled the country fearing for their lives and took shelter in India.