Publishers of Zafar Iqbal to hold sit-in over Sust assault today

Publishers of noted writer Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal will hold a sit-in at the Central Shaheed Minar today, protesting the assault on his
1 September 2015

Nepalese envoy visits Scholastica

Nepalese Ambassador to Bangladesh Hari Kumar Shrestha on Monday visited the Scholastica senior campus in the capital's Mirpur.
1 September 2015

Ctg city under water again

Most of the low-lying areas of Chittagong city again went under knee- to waist-deep water after the heavy shower since Monday night.
1 September 2015

Proposal on stopping re-survey worries officials

Private launch owners yesterday put forward two new proposals that aim to make large profits, but also put passengers' lives at risk.
1 September 2015

RU teacher barred from exam activities

A Rajshahi University teacher has been barred from taking part in any examination related activities for tampering a tabulation sheet and forging a thesis paper
31 August 2015

SCBA demands re-election to Bar Council

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), dominated by pro-BNP lawyers, yesterday demanded suspension of the results of recently held elections to Bangladesh Bar Council, and holding its re-election citing "unprecedented irregularities."
31 August 2015

Only 1hr rain waterlogs low lying RCC areas

Due to a lack of proper drainage system, most of the low-lying areas have been waterlogged after only one hour of incessant rain in Rajshahi city yesterday causing untold sufferings to the dwellers.
31 August 2015

Taher, Nani implicated in Netrakona freedom fighter murder again

A prosecution witness yesterday corroborated testimonies of previous witnesses that Obaidul Haque Taher and Ataur Rahman Nani killed freedom fighter Dabir Hossain in Netrokona town during the Liberation War in 1971.
30 August 2015

Public univ teachers strike for third day

Teachers continued demonstrations and observed a three-hour work stoppage at public universities across the country yesterday demanding cancellation of the proposed eight national payscale and a new one for them.
30 August 2015

Prof Zafar Iqbal shell-shocked as students swoop on teachers

Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal perhaps could not believe what had just happened -- some students of his university swooping on their teachers right before his eyes.
30 August 2015

Bench asst on three-day remand for 'issuing fake bail orders'

A Dhaka court yesterday placed a bench assistant of Dhaka Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, on a three-day remand in a case filed for
30 August 2015

UN chief calls for refugee action

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed yesterday to governments to step up their response to Europe's migrant crisis following more drowning at sea and the discovery of migrant bodies in an abandoned truck in Austria.
29 August 2015

Mahatma Gandhi Smarak Sadan holds discussion in capital

Mahatma Gandhi and Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam were poles apart, but they both had a common dream to free their motherland from British
29 August 2015

Rescuing water bodies from grabbers an imperative

The government must immediately reclaim the designated flood flow zones, water retention areas and canals from realtors and
29 August 2015

Sold my property to Khandker Mosharraf willingly at fair price

Dayamoyee Asram owner Arun Guha Majumder yesterday said he willingly sold his Jheeltuli house in Faridpur to LGRD Minister Khandker
29 August 2015

Dhaka river choked as authorities remain silent

A spinning mill now stands on a flood plain earmarked as conservable in the capital's master plan with the authorities playing the role
28 August 2015

Reading Nazrul Islam after Walter Benjamin

‘Early in his life, Kazi Nazrul Islam, the most notable Muslim poet of modern Bengal, edited and published a weekly Bengali journal named Dhumketu, the Comet.
28 August 2015

Kazi Zafar's family wants to bury him on JS premises

Family members late Kazi Zafar Ahmed, chairman of a faction of Jatiya Party and former prime minister during HM Ershad's regime, sought
28 August 2015

Land erosion worsens

The flood water started receding from Lalmonirhat and Gaibandha but erosions by the rivers Dharla and Jamuna, which were triggered
28 August 2015

Female blogger seeks police protection

A blogger files a general diary with Mohammadpur Police Station in Dhaka this afternoon seeking protection as she fears for her life.
28 August 2015