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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UK fears fresh attacks on westerners

The United Kingdom is apprehensive about more attacks on westerners in Bangladesh, saying those could be indiscriminate.
9 October 2015

Barisal hospital interns abstain from work for 4hr after attack

Attendants attacked interns of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barisal yesterday following the death of a
8 October 2015

Family to meet Mojaheed at Dhaka Central Jail today

Family members of condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed will meet him at Dhaka Central Jail today.
8 October 2015

Int'l standard education must for development

Global Study, an education consultancy firm in Dhaka, celebrated its 11th founding anniversary in the capital's The
8 October 2015

Belarusian writer Alexievich wins Nobel Literature Prize

Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize yesterday, honoured for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime.
8 October 2015

Mawna OC accused of beating driver

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was hospitalised yesterday after the Mawna Highway Police Station o%cer-in-charge
7 October 2015