Once again the debate over Bengali nationalism
31 March 2026, 12:58 PM
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Does South Asia need secularism?
30 March 2026, 00:44 AM
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Did Jinnah lose faith in the Two-Nation Theory after 1947?
26 March 2026, 16:02 PM
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The black flag at Rajshahi and the officer who chose conscience
26 March 2026, 13:39 PM
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At Highgate, remembering Karl Marx
22 March 2026, 15:00 PM
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Celebrating Eid: Thousand years of history in three embraces
21 March 2026, 10:00 AM
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Historical glimpses of Eid processions in Dhaka
20 March 2026, 10:00 AM
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The Biryani excavation
19 March 2026, 10:00 AM
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My mother’s letter during the Liberation War
16 March 2026, 11:10 AM
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In Focus / A journey through Bangladesh’s Islamic inscriptions
28 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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Agitators start fast unto death
Candidates protesting the leak of the medical college admission test question started a fast unto death at the
14 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Transport strike in South Ctg on Monday
Transport leaders and workers will enforce a dawn-to-dusk strike on 19 routes of South Chittagong on Monday demanding immediate
13 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Agitators to go on hunger strike today
Candidates protesting the leak of the medical college admission test question will start a fast unto death at the
13 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Legal barriers obstruct demolition
Secretary to the disaster management and relief ministry Shah Kamal yesterday said earthquake is the biggest challenge for Bangladesh
13 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Tweets were 'from Bangladesh'
The tweets claiming the responsibility of killing two foreigners and the bloggers were uploaded from Bangladesh, said an official of Information and Communication Technology ministry.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Another prisoner flees from custody
A prisoner escaped from police custody in Chittagong Court Building area yesterday.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM
12 countries seek extra security
At least a dozen countries have sought additional security from the Bangladesh government for their diplomats and citizens.
12 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Stringent security measures taken for Durga Puja
Law enforcement agencies have taken all-out security measures to maintain law and order during Durga Puja, one of biggest religious
11 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Police yet to make headway
Police are yet to make any headway in the murder of former Power Development Board chairman Khizir Khan.
11 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Passengers speak up against harassment at public hearing
College student Zunayed Ahmad used to travel by bus from Mirpur-10 to Farmgate for Tk 10-12. But for the last couple of days, he was
11 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Prisoner dies at Rajshahi jail
An elderly prisoner, sentenced to life-term imprisonment in a murder case, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital yesterday.
10 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Who said what after the killings
Investigators have yet to make any headway in the probe into the recent killings of two foreigners in Bangladesh. Police officials refrain
10 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Work for entertainment village starts next March
Two international and two local companies have primarily qualified to set up the first ever exclusive tourism resort and entertainment
10 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Medical question leak: Protestors call for independent probe
Protestors demand for an independent probe into allegations of question leak that marred this year’s medical and dental admission tests.
10 October 2015, 08:58 AM
Abdul Karim's discoveries - Origins of modernity in Bengali literature
Abdul Karim discovered that there existed also Muslim writers of quality in Bengali literature and, what's more, their quantity also is far from negligible. In diction their works, for instance, those of the 17th century lauraetes Kazi Daulat (1600-1638) or Syed Alaol (1607-1680) are no less 'elevated and dignified,' i.e., Sanskritized in measure than Bharatchandra Ray's (1712-1760) or Madhusudan Datta's (1824-1873) of later fame.
9 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Plan for partisan polls a conspiracy
The plan to make the local government elections partisan is a strategy to send BNP's demand for a fresh national
9 October 2015, 18:00 PM
UK heightens alert, fears further attack on westerners in Bangladesh
The United Kingdom apprehends more attacks on westerners in Bangladesh and those could be indiscriminate.
9 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Tunisia activists win Nobel Peace Prize in boost to fledgling democracy
Tunisian civil society groups won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for helping to create the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring, at a time when the country is under threat from jihadist violence.
9 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Probe medical admission test question leak
Academics, intellectuals, and cultural activists yesterday joined the cause of medical college hopefuls and called for
9 October 2015, 18:00 PM
Mojaheed's family meets him in jail
Condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed's wife Tamanna-E-Jahan hoped that the authorities concerned of the state including the president, prime minister, chief justice will play roles in ensuring justice for her husband in review of the Supreme Court ruling that upheld his death penalty.
9 October 2015, 18:00 PM