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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Director suspended for irregularities in buying machine
The health ministry has suspended Dr AKM Mujibur Rahman, director of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, on the charge of irregularities in
2 July 2015
‘Al-Qaeda was planning countrywide attack’
Law enforcers claim arrest of 12 militants of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent including its Bangladesh chief coordinator from Dhaka.
2 July 2015
Rajabazar in hell (video)
Rajabazar dwellers in Dhaka face intolerable sufferings due to the ongoing construction works of sewage system, which has continued for months.
1 July 2015
2 Bangladeshis, 7 Myanmarese held in Malaysia
Seven Myanmarese and two Bangladeshi men were arrested for their alleged involvement in a regional human trafficking syndicate from
30 June 2015
Advance ticket sale for Eid travel starts Friday
Private bus operators will start selling advance tickets on Friday to assist holidaymakers in reaching their destination ahead of Eid to
30 June 2015
Human rights situation worsens
Compared to the same period last year, the overall human rights situation in this year's first half worsened as power abuse by law
30 June 2015
Cops 'torture' RU BCL leader
Police allegedly tortured a Bangladesh Chhatra League leader of Rajshahi University after detaining him on the charge of "verbally
30 June 2015
Savar RMG workers protest 'unpaid overtime'
Several hundred RMG workers yesterday demonstrated at their factory in Dhaka Export Processing Zone in Savar of Dhaka protesting
30 June 2015
Razzak’s health improving: Doctor
Brushing aside the confusion over the “death” of Bangla film actor Razzak, the doctor under whom the film star is being treated says Razzak is not dead.
30 June 2015
Appeal for help
Six-year-old Folehera Tanzina Mithi has been suffering from blood cancer for over two years.
29 June 2015
Movie star Razzak’s condition improved, says family
The condition of renowned Bangla film actor Abdur Razzak has improved, his youngest son Samrat says.
29 June 2015
Fake note gangs on the go again in Bangladesh
Money counterfeiting gangs are active again ahead of Eid, when people spend a lot in shopping and fake notes change hands often undetected.
28 June 2015
Convict dies at N'ganj jail
A convicted prisoner, who had been serving jail term at the district jail in a drug case, died at Narayanganj General Hospital on Saturday afternoon.
28 June 2015
Recover Gazipur forest land from grabbers
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts yesterday asked the forest department to soon recover forest land in Gazipur from grabbers.
28 June 2015
Renowned film actor Razzak in ICU
Renowned film actor Razzak, also widely known as “Nayak Raj Razzak”, was shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the capital's United Hospital yesterday.
28 June 2015
Current gas reserve to last 16 yrs
With measured use, the country’s current gas reserve will last for about the next 16 years, Nasrul Hamid, state minister for power says in the parliament.
28 June 2015
Down in downpour
Life in the capital and elsewhere in the country was in an utter shambles yesterday due to incessant rain for the last four days.
Thirteen more deaths in rain-induced incidents were reported in Cox's Bazar yesterday, raising the toll to 21 in the coastal district in the past couple of days. Two others were killed in Bandarban on Thursday.
Flash floods inundated more areas, leaving several thousand people marooned in Narayanganj and Chandpur.
27 June 2015
Appeal for help
A 10-year-boy Sourov Sikder, only son of Govinda Chandra Sikder of Madaripur, has been undergoing treatment for cancer at
27 June 2015
Kamal president, Moslem secy of newspaper hawkers union
Mostafa Kamal and Moslem Mian have been elected president and secretary of the managing committee of Dhaka Newspaper Hawkers
27 June 2015
Man's body recovered from Karnaphuli river
Police recovered the body of an unidentified man, aged around 48, from the Karnaphuli River near Avoy Mitra Ghat in Chittagong city on
27 June 2015