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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BGB man shot on Myanmar border
Myanmar border force opened fire on a Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) patrol team near the Naf river of Cox's Bazar early yesterday. A BGB member was bullet-hit and another one was “abducted” by the Myanmar Border Guard Police (BGP).
17 June 2015
Barking deer dies at Ctg Zoo
A male barking deer died at Chittagong Zoo yesterday, hours after it was injured in a fight with another deer.
17 June 2015
Abducted boy rescued, one held in Ctg
Police yesterday rescued an abducted boy from Abdupara area of Chittagong city.
17 June 2015
Top Quote!
This verdict is the answer to his claim that there is no war criminal in Bangladesh
16 June 2015
Bring end to Adivasi exodus
The indigenous people of Sylhet division are increasingly migrating out of Bangladesh, into India, in the face of land grabbing and
16 June 2015
Atiqur Rahman
Atiqur Rahman, managing director of Agronomy Export-Import (Pvt) Ltd and proprietor of Wafi Agro International, died in a road accident
16 June 2015
Rony denied bail
Dhaka court rejects the bail petition of Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of AL lawmaker Pinu Khan, in a case filed against him on charge of shooting and killing two people on April 14.
16 June 2015
Nahid to consider univ teachers' demands
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday assured taking into consideration demands of teachers of the country's 37 public universities over the
15 June 2015
14 billboards, 6 mini poles pulled down
A mobile court of Chittagong City Corporation pulled down nine illegal billboards and six mini-poles and fined six billboard owners Tk 30,000 in Jamal Khan area of Chittagong city yesterday.
15 June 2015
Memo for university teachers’ separate pay scale
Public university teachers place a memorandum to the education ministry demanding separate pay scale for them.
15 June 2015
Temporary Biman staff stage demo for regularisation
Over 100 temporary employees of Biman Bangladesh Airlines staged a sit-in before the motor transport department on the Hazrat
14 June 2015
Case filed over students' death in Ctg road crash
A case was filed with Akbar Shah Police Station in connection with the road accident that killed two college students and injured another
14 June 2015
Blackout panics DMCH patients
Panic gripped patients at Dhaka Medical College Hospital following a power disruption for hours in its newly constructed 10-storey
14 June 2015
Case sees first arrest in five months
After five months of investigation, police arrested a former madrasa official on Saturday evening as prime suspect for the murder of
14 June 2015
Journo Habibur Rahman Milon passes away
Veteran journalist and chairman of Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB), Habibur Rahman Milon died due to old-age complications at LabAid
14 June 2015
No arrest yet
Police are claiming that they could neither arrest an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) nor gather information on his three cohorts centring a
14 June 2015
Top Quote!
“Prioritisation is totally missing in our budget."
13 June 2015
Road crash deaths elicit little public reaction
Due to high frequency of road accidents in the country, around 15 to 20 persons die every day, but it elicits little reaction from the
13 June 2015
Demand for arrest of BCL leader still on
General students, teachers, and cultural activists of Rajshahi University continued their protest for the fourth day yesterday, demanding
13 June 2015
Salahuddin's wife returns home
Hasina Ahmed, wife of BNP joint secretary general Salahuddin Ahmed who is facing a case in India over illegal entry, returned home from
13 June 2015