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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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
Buet teacher questioned over Avijit murder
Detectives question Farseem Mannan Mohammedy, an associate professor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), in connection with the killing of blogger-writer Avijit Roy
24 March 2015
Owners in Ctg want one more month to wrap business
Responding to the latest government move to remove illegal battery-run rickshaws from Chittagong City, the owners and drivers
23 March 2015
Govt to set up two medical universities in Ctg, Rajshahi
Two more medical universities would be established in Rajshahi and Chittagong to create more specialist doctors and nurses.
23 March 2015
Ctg city's potentials untapped
Chittagong has all potentials to become a modern megacity but those were not exploited properly in the past, ruling Awami League-
23 March 2015
NHRC decries cop torture on journo of Prothom Alo
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Mizanur Rahman yesterday condemned the reported torture on ABM Mizanur
23 March 2015
Restrictions in CHT to go
The government is withdrawing the wholesale restrictions banning foreign nationals and Bangladeshi citizens from meeting or talking
23 March 2015
Appeal for help
Habiba, 15, daughter of poor farmer Habil Uddin of Bijoynagar village in Singra upazila of Natore, is suffering from blood cancer.
22 March 2015
'Return' Salahuddin or face dire consequence
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has warned that the government will face “dire consequences” if it does not return missing BNP leader
22 March 2015
‘Hijacked car’ driver found dead from Turag
The body a chauffeur who went missing after the hijacking of a private car from Mirpur area in Dhaka was recovered today from the Turag River in Tongi
22 March 2015
No water supply for twelve days
Inpatients of Barisal General Hospital have been undergoing untold sufferings due to suspension of water supply for the last 12 days
20 March 2015
Double blow for arson victims
Five microbuses and two ambulances carrying three arson victims, two of them in critical condition, from Chandpur came under a
20 March 2015
Global cotton summit begins in Dhaka
A two-day global cotton summit began in Dhaka yesterday.
20 March 2015
No headway in probe frustrates father
Prof Ajay Roy could not help but wonder about the investigators' failure to come up with a list of suspects even after nearly a month
20 March 2015
Withdraw proposal of conditional 16yrs
Women's rights activists yesterday reiterated their call for the women and children affairs ministry to withdraw its proposal to relax
20 March 2015
Cyber security key challenge
Moving ahead with its digitalisation vision, Bangladesh's key challenge now is ensuring proper cyber security, said CTO Forum,
20 March 2015
Protecting the Witness
The importance of protecting people who put themselves at risk by assisting law enforcement agencies as witnesses is widely recognised worldwide.
20 March 2015
Their Lips are Sealed
Every Thursday evening, the TSC area of Dhaka University becomes a crowded public place where visitors from all
20 March 2015
Ctg Wasa to meet 70pc water demand by Oct: Officials
The construction of a water treatment plant, with a capacity of supplying 143 million litres per day (mld) to mitigate water crisis in
19 March 2015
Battery-run rickshaws in Ctg must go off road by Monday
Chittagong Metropolitan Police yesterday directed owners and drivers of battery-run rickshaws to remove batteries from their vehicles or
19 March 2015