“Operation Jackpot brought us three steps closer to liberation”
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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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To feel Bengali, to think beyond Bengal: Dipankar Gupta in conversation
11 August 2026
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Bangladesh's visual history / The enduring allure of vintage photographs
10 August 2026
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Bus strike on Dhaka-Rajshahi route hits commuters hard
Movement of buses on Dhaka-Rajshahi route remains suspended as Rajshahi District Motor Workers' Union enforces a strike on the route.
2 December 2016
Elephants kill farmer in Sherpur
An indigenous farmer was killed by wild elephants in Jhinaigati border area in the district on Wednesday night.
1 December 2016
'Withdraw case against bdnews journalists'
Speakers at a human chain demanded withdrawal of a case filed against the editor of bilingual online news portal bdnews24.com and its local correspondent Shakil Ahmed.
1 December 2016
Potato price shoots up further in Dinajpur
Price of potato, one of the common and essential item of our daily dishes, has shot up at a rapid speed in retail and wholesale kitchen markets of Dinajpur in last one week.
1 December 2016
$31m deal inked with UNDP for CHT development
The government signs an agreement with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for a new development project, focusing on sustainable and inclusive development of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).
1 December 2016
Injured Ansar man dies in Dhaka
An Ansar member who was allegedly injured by smugglers in Benapole land port area on November 15 dies at a Dhaka hospital.
1 December 2016
Man killed in Sherpur elephant attack
A farmer is killed in a wild elephant attack in Jhenigati upazila of Sherpur.
1 December 2016
Protest continues in Mymensingh
More than 20,000 people of seven villages in Mymensingh brought out a procession in the town yesterday, demanding exemption of their homesteads and farmlands from acquisition.
30 November 2016
Disrespect to language martyrs!
Shaheed Minar commemorates the martyrs who laid down their lives during the Language Movement of 1952 in then East Pakistan.
30 November 2016
Crossing Padma a daily risk for Munshiganj students
Commuting to school should be a pleasure but it isn't always. Early morning rush and worries about homework; in the cities students
30 November 2016
Myanmar takes back 91 fishermen
Bangladesh repatriates 91 fishermen to Myanmar, who were detained by the Navy for illegally intruding into Bangladesh’s naval territory on December 8 last year.
30 November 2016
Tax return: Officials to work extra hours
The field offices will be accepting income tax returns for as long as the taxpayers keep coming today, the last day for tax return submission, according to a press release of the NBR.
30 November 2016
Drive to free Louhajang from grabbers begins
The district administration in a drive removed at least 100 structures to free the Louhajang river from illegal occupation.
29 November 2016
Fresh cracks in many houses
Fresh cracks have developed in several hundred houses of eight villages near the mine of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Ltd (BCMCL) in Parbatipur upazila of the district due to the tremors and subsidence during extraction of coal, villagers said.
29 November 2016
14 teenagers return from India after serving jail
Fourteen Bangladeshi teen-age girls returned home yesterday through Benapole check-post after serving three years in an Indian prison.
29 November 2016
Chittagong transport strike postponed
Transport workers postpone their 24-hour strike across five districts of Chittagong following the assurance from police personnel to realise their demand.
29 November 2016
Road blockade in C'nawabganj
Transport workers blocked Chapainawabganj-Rajshahi highway in the town for about five hours from 10:30am
28 November 2016
Seven-day ultimatum to repair roads
Lalmonirhat transport leaders yesterday threatened to go for a tougher movement if the authorities concerned do not
28 November 2016
Panchagarh freedom day today
On this day in 1971, valiant freedom fighters hoisted the flag of independent Bangladesh in Panchagarh town by
28 November 2016
US wants to work to resolve Rohingya crisis: Envoy
US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat says her country wants to work to put an end to the ongoing repression on Rohingya people in Myanmar.
28 November 2016