Why Chittagong never became a maritime city
24 August 2026
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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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Insecurity mirrors Pak regime days
Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad yesterday demanded protection of religious minorities against repression and torture.
22 August 2015
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Catherine Masud urges chief justice to expedite trials
Catherine Masud, widow of renowned filmmaker Tareque Masud, yesterday urged the chief justice to take measures to expedite trial
20 August 2015
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
Probir still not feeling safe
Senior journalist Probir Sikdar is still apprehensive of moving freely.
20 August 2015
Ctg students protest VAT on private university tuition fees
Students of eight private universities of Chittagong yesterday protested the government's decision to impose 7.5 percent VAT on their
20 August 2015
Mass hysteria sends fifteen schoolgirls to Barisal hospital
At least 15 schoolgirls of Durgapasa High School in Chanpasa village of Barisal were admitted to Sher-E-Bangla Medical College Hospital
20 August 2015
Transport workers go on strike in all Ctg districts
Chittagong regional committee of Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Shramik Federation enforced an indefinite strike in the five districts of
20 August 2015
Assault on journos: EC seeks withdrawal of deputy director
The Election Commission urges the government to withdraw its deputy director who beat up two journalists at his office.
20 August 2015