Reading Bengal beyond religious boundaries
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Graphic modernity: Bengali artists and the politics of book design
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Echoes of Karbala: A personal journey through Muharram in Old Dhaka
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500 years after Babur's victory / How the Mughal legacy continues to shape South Asia
16 June 2026, 00:01 AM
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The lost world of Dhaka's courtesans and baijis
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Early Bengali advertising / Ghosts, gods, and swadeshi pride
14 June 2026, 17:09 PM
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Love, faith and family: Inside World Cup players’ tattoos
11 June 2026, 16:05 PM
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Can migration help win a World Cup?
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A crime history of Bengal: When rivers became a haven for dacoits
9 June 2026, 09:00 AM
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Mohajir manuscripts: Field notes from Dhaka Aliya Madrasa
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Schoolboy’s death sparks protest in Bogra
Traffic movement on Dhaka-Rangpur highway remains suspended for one and a half hours as locals put up barricade protesting death of school student in Bogra road crash
30 March 2015, 05:07 AM
1.21cr new electricity connections by 2015, state minister for power tells parliament
The government will provide new electricity connections to 1.21 crore people within this year by setting up 3.23 lakh kilometres of transmission line and 650 sub-stations, says State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid Bipu.
29 March 2015, 15:16 PM
WB to construct 330 new disaster shelters by 2017
The World Bank will construct at least 330 new cyclone shelters in the cyclone-prone areas of Bangladesh by 2017.
28 March 2015, 18:46 PM
Abducted Comilla boy rescued in Ctg
Police rescued a 13-year-old boy, who was kidnapped from Comilla last week for ransom, and arrested a man with whom he was found in
28 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Militants spreading wings
Amid a slack monitoring in recent months, the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh and a few other militant outfits have become active
27 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Salahuddin not under arrest: IGP
BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed's wife yesterday again sought the prime minister's intervention in tracing him while Inspector General of
27 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Rejoinder, our reply
Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) yesterday issued a rejoinder against a news headlined “Consultant set to become builder” published in The Daily Star Tuesday.
27 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Women not portrayed as Freedom Fighters on Screen
The overall theoretical framework of covering war in mass media gives evidence that to justify war the political leadership uses fragile
27 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Blame game lets illegal parking thrive in Dhaka
While illegal parking continues causing traffic chaos in the capital, the two city corporations and Dhaka Metropolitan Police are
26 March 2015, 18:00 PM
The War of Liberation and Maulana Bhashani
It was late afternoon of 25th March. Professor Govinda Chandra Dev, along with a junior colleague of his from the philosophy department, was crossing the road near TSC of the University of Dhaka to go to Ramna Race Course for his regular stroll.
25 March 2015, 18:00 PM
A note from Simon Dring
It was at this hour 44 years ago today that the first Pakistani army units began moving into Dhaka - and a night of unimaginable horror
25 March 2015, 18:00 PM
No end to killings
Both of them were landless. One of them, Khorshed Alam, was a day labourer and the other, Yadul Mollah, a truck helper. But they had
25 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Adivasis again demand relocation on eve of Independence Day
“I want my daughter to grow up in my own home. I will not accept any (compensation) offer. Nothing is as good as returning home,”
25 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Tax association officials protest attack on NBR member
Members of BCS Customs and Vat Association and BCS Taxation Association protested the attack on Barrister Jahangir Hossain, National
25 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Freed Bangladeshis return to employer
2 Bangladeshi workers, freed by Libyan militants yesterday, will be taken to Tripoli from Sirte Hospital where they are staying now
25 March 2015, 05:37 AM
2 more arson victims die at DMCH
Two more arson victims, who suffered severe burns in separate firebomb attacks in Chandpur and Magura, die at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital
25 March 2015, 04:56 AM
Boy dies, 3 of family fall ill after eating puffer fish
A boy died and three of his family members fell ill after eating puffer fishes during their lunch in the capital's Hazaribagh yesterday.
24 March 2015, 20:29 PM
Workers torch bus for injuring fellows
Garment workers yesterday torched a bus which hit two of their fellow workers on Dhaka-Tangail highway at Ziranibazar in Ashulia,
24 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Nur Hossain's aide remanded
A Narayanganj court yesterday granted a seven-day remand for Raham Ali, an accomplice of Nur Hossain, the prime accused of the
24 March 2015, 18:00 PM
400 illegal structures demolished
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday demolished around 400 illegal structures on DCC market premises at Gulshan-2 and
24 March 2015, 18:00 PM