Why Chittagong never became a maritime city
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The many worlds of Ghulam Murshid
23 August 2026
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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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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