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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Relocate chemical, medicine factories out of Barisal city
Inhabitants of Barisal city yesterday formed a human chain demanding that chemical and pharmaceutical factories be shifted
2 April 2015
StanChart, Star to celebrate country's heritage this year
With a call to capture the essence of the Bangladeshi identity in their lyrics, photographs and films, The Daily Star-Standard Chartered
2 April 2015
Manage Langalbandh bathing ritual like Biswa Ijtema
Rights defenders yesterday urged the government to manage the Hindu pilgrimage at Narayanganj's Langalbandh where several lakh
2 April 2015
River bank erosion could be curbed by forecasts
Damages and losses due to river bank erosion each year in the country could be minimised significantly through disseminating bank
1 April 2015
Nor'westers fizz out heat, create traffic nightmare in capital
Nor'westers accompanied by moderate rainfall lashed the capital and some other parts of the country including Chittagong and
1 April 2015
Nor’wester beats down heat in Dhaka
A nor’wester hit Dhaka triggering a thunderstorm accompanied with sudden torrential downpour that beat down heat in the city ahead of summer.
1 April 2015
Catching of hilsa fry goes unabated due to illegal use of gillnets in Bangladesh
A ban on jatka fishing is in place. Drives are being regularly conducted to prevent fishermen from catching the hilsa fry. And
31 March 2015
Dr Kamal demands protection of Langalbandh
Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday demanded a national committee to protect Langalbandh, a place on the bank of the
31 March 2015
Rajshahi college students protest exam fee hike
Students of Rajshahi Government College demonstrated on the campus yesterday protesting fee hike in the final examination of honours
31 March 2015
Blogger Oyasiqur's killing protested in Barisal
The activists of Barisal Gonojagoron Mancha yesterday formed a human chain in front of Aswani Kumar Hall of Barisal city demanding
31 March 2015
Somoy TV’s backpack seized
Police this evening seized a portable video transmission backpack of Somoy Television near the Gulshan office of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Dhaka.
31 March 2015
Power cut hits Bangabhaban
A grid failure at Haripur in Narayanganj resulted in shut down of a number of power plants in the country leaving many areas in the capital including parliament and Bangabhaban without power for up to an hour.
31 March 2015
Muhith faces MPs’ wrath over development project fund allocation
Finance Minister AMA Muhith today faced wrath from lawmakers in parliament repeatedly for his claim that projects below Tk 25 crore from block allocation are being implemented in various parts of the country.
31 March 2015
Attacks on journos, intellectuals worry UN
United Nations expresses deep concern over attacks on journalists and intellectuals in Bangladesh in the recent days.
31 March 2015
France condemns blogger Oyasiqur killing
France condemns the killing of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, who was brutally hacked by cleaver-wielding youths under broad daylight in Dhaka.
31 March 2015
7,500kg jatka seized at Karwan Bazar
Rapid Action Battalion seizes 7,500 kg of jatka and fined 11 people Tk 5000 each for selling those at Karwan Bazar wholesale fish market in Dhaka, Rab sources say.
31 March 2015
Int'l CHTC slams 'alarming trend'
International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission (CHTC) yesterday strongly condemned the “alarming trend” of attacks on indigenous
30 March 2015
‘Burst tyre caused accident, I was at wheel,’ says Salman’s driver
Salman Khan's driver today appeared in court for the first time and said that he - not the actor - was driving the SUV that crushed people sleeping on a pavement in Mumbai in 2002.
30 March 2015
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
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