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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Mass hysteria in Barisal schools again
At least 36 schoolgirls from Charkawa Nayani High School and Charkawa Azad Government Primary School in Barisal Sadar were admitted
24 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Abducted girl rescued after two days
A schoolgirl was rescued in Rajshahi yesterday morning, two days after she was kidnapped from Tongi.
24 August 2015, 18:00 PM
125 to return from Myanmar today
A total of 125 Bangladeshi trafficking victims who were rescued by the Myanmar authorities from the Bay of Bengal in May will be brought
24 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Public univ teachers strike for 3 hours for second day
Teachers abstained from work for three hours at Chittagong University and Sylhet Agricultural University yesterday protesting the
23 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh police chief defends law enforcers over ‘gunfights’
The inspector general of police yesterday defended the incidents of gunfights involving law enforcers, a day after an Awami League lawmaker hit out at Rab over the killing of Hazaribagh Chhatra League President Arzu Miah in a
23 August 2015, 18:00 PM
More public awareness needed to boost tax collection
Creation of more mass awareness for boosting tax collection has to be stressed in the greater interest of making the country
23 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Insecurity mirrors Pak regime days
Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad yesterday demanded protection of religious minorities against repression and torture.
22 August 2015, 18:00 PM
TV reporter sent to jail for 'torturing wife'
A Dhaka court yesterday sent senior reporter of ATN News Atiqur Rahman Khan to jail in a case filed for torturing his wife.
22 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Sammilita Sangskritik Jote protests murders of bloggers, children
Sammilita Sangskritik Jote held a rally at the Central Shaheed Minar in the capital yesterday protesting murders of children and bloggers
22 August 2015, 18:00 PM
People must know about RTI Act for optimum use
Benefits of the Right to Information Act need to be highlighted to ensure its optimum use by citizens, said speakers at the country's
22 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Journo Shawkat Mahmud sent to jail after remand
A Dhaka court yesterday sent to jail Shawkat Mahmud, an adviser of the BNP chairperson and president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal
22 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Death under tiger statue: People demand justice (video)
Angered over the tragic death of a man under a tiger statue at Karwan Bazar of Dhaka yesterday, people demanded justice.
22 August 2015, 10:06 AM
REMEMBERING YASMIN
A 14-year-old girl got on the wrong bus on her way to Dinajpur from Dhaka. Upon realising her mistake, she stepped out of the bus, and was looking for another way home, when a police van stopped in front of her.
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Nilphamari train derailment halts communications for six hours
Rail communications on Parbotipur-Chilahati route in Nilphamari remained snapped for six hours as the locomotive of a Rajshahi-bound
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM
India extends Taslima Nasreen's visa by a year
Author Taslima Nasreen's Indian visa was extended yesterday for another year, effective from July 23, following an intervention of Home
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Bull fattening going on in Rajshahi ahead of Eid
In addition to Monira Begum, more than 11,500 rural people most of them women in Rajshahi region are now passing their busiest
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Ctg transport strike called off after leader's rescue
Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Federation called off its indefinite strike as transport worker leader Nurul Islam was rescued from
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM
7.64 lakh painkillers seized
Rapid Action Battalion seized 7,64,100 painkillers from a pharmaceutical factory in Barisal city early yesterday.
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Rain worsens flooding in Kurigram
Incessant rains and the water rolling down hills have inundated about five hundred shoals and low-lying areas of all nine upazilas of
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Tourism industry turned into threat for Adivasis
The tourism industry has appeared more as a threat to indigenous peoples' cultural integrity and to their right to the land and forest
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM