The many worlds of Ghulam Murshid
7 HOUR(s)
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Operation Jackpot: How Bangladesh’s naval commandos struck at Pakistan’s lifeline in 1971
21 August 2026
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The Yellow Butterfly: How Sheba shaped my world growing up
18 August 2026
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What Bangladesh’s historic Test victory in Australia means for Bangladeshi-Australians
17 August 2026
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Remembering Sumit Sarkar, a historian who questioned orthodoxy
17 August 2026
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The unfinished histories of Partition
16 August 2026
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In conversation with William Dalrymple / ‘Britain didn't conquer India’
15 August 2026
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Sheikh Mujib’s killing: What the newspapers told and what they omitted
15 August 2026
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Mirrors of Empire / The bureaucrats and intellectuals who shaped the Mughal Empire
14 August 2026
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To feel Bengali, to think beyond Bengal: Dipankar Gupta in conversation
11 August 2026
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Abducted N'ganj bride rescued
Rapid Action Battalion rescued a bride from Gazipur's Jamalpur Mirpara Sunday night three days after she had been abducted from Araihazar in Narayanganj on the wedding day.
9 November 2015
JSC examinee's death on road sparks protest
Two, including a JSC examinee, were killed and another was injured when a bus rammed into a rickshaw on Dhaka-Mawa highway in Kuchimora of Munshiganj while they were going to the examination centre yesterday morning.
9 November 2015
Violence against children on rise for impunity
Incidents of child repression have increased alarmingly this year mainly because of the culture of impunity, claims a non-government report.
9 November 2015
DEPZ factory shuts sine die over workers' demand for benefits
The management of an Indian owned garment factory in Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ), on the outskirts of the capital shut down the factory for an unidentified period yesterday following workers demonstration for service benefit.
8 November 2015
Textile engineers demand arrest of two Noman Group officials
Textile engineers will observe a daylong work stoppage at all garment factories on Sunday if the managing director and the director of Noman Group, who allegedly beat up their fellow engineer, were not arrested by Thursday.
8 November 2015
Clear Tejgaon terminal by Nov 27
Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq issued a November 27 ultimatum to the truck owners to clear the illegal infrastructures from Tejgaon terminal to increase parking space to reduce traffic congestion of the area.
8 November 2015
Hasina sees local, foreign conspiracy
Denying the existence of Islamic State in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said a local and foreign conspiracy is afoot to establish that cohorts of IS are active in the country.
8 November 2015
Four to die for killing Rajon
Rajon and Rakib. The teen boys, both aged 13, from Sylhet and Khulna were killed by some brutes in July and August. The barbaric murders shook the nation to its core and stirred massive outcries in the social and mainstream media. Yesterday, two courts in the two districts sentenced six people to death for their murders.
A Sylhet court yesterday handed down death penalty to four people for the brutal killing of 13-year-old Rajon that stirred a huge outcry all over the country.
8 November 2015
Four Pakistanis among them
Detectives claimed to have arrested seven Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members, including four Pakistanis, in the capital's airport area on Friday night.
7 November 2015
Massive drives conducted by Ctg cops, 481 arrested
As a part of countrywide drives, police arrested 481 persons, including 24 Jamaat-Shibir activists, in Chittagong district early yesterday.
7 November 2015
16 Ctg citizens worried over delay in bringing attackers to book
Sixteen eminent citizens in Chittagong yesterday expressed grave concern over the murder of a publisher, and attack
7 November 2015
It's hope they get
She cannot see the colours and wonders of the world, yet she never stopped dreaming, and yesterday she found a
7 November 2015
Wang Ming still unconscious, Lily recovering
In development of the “burglary gone wrong” attack on Taiwanese couple in Dhaka, the man Wang Ming Chee is still unconscious at the hospital.
7 November 2015
14kg gold seized at Dhaka airport
Customs officials seize 120 gold bars weighing around 14 kilogrammes from under a seat in a flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
6 November 2015
Kids under 5 at more risk of pneumonia
Children, under the age of five, exposed to arsenic have two-times higher the risk of developing pneumonia than children not exposed, said a new study.
Scientists arrived at this conclusion after looking at arsenic concentration in urine samples of 153 children aged between one month to five years with severe and very severe pneumonia, said a statement of icddr,b.
5 November 2015
Field-level officials urged to post positive aspects of govt on Facebook
The cabinet division has advised field-level public servants to share on Facebook items on invention and showcasing positive aspects of the government instead of irrelevant and personal matters.
5 November 2015
Control of madrasa education urgent
Adopting the constitution of 1972, banning and trying Jamaat-e-Islami for war crimes in 1971 and enforcing control over madrasa education's curriculum are required to stop the current onslaught on fee thinking by fundamentalist, terrorist forces, speakers told a discussion yesterday.
4 November 2015
Dog squad deployed at Sylhet airport
After Dhaka and Chittagong airports, a dog squad was stationed at Osmani International Airport in Sylhet yesterday to
4 November 2015
Two selected from Barisal region
Two women won the Barisal regional round of Rupchanda-The Daily Star Super Chef-2016 held at Barisal Club
4 November 2015
Netherlands to help fight floods in Bangladesh
Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Environment Melanie Schultz van Haegen yesterday assured Bangladesh of assisting in the implementation of its Delta Plan 2100.
4 November 2015