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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Char patients suffer
The lone water ambulance meant for carrying patients from char (landmass emerging from riverbed) areas of
8 November 2016
Broken classrooms drive students outdoors
From students of 38 primary schools in Nilphamari's Jaldhaka upazila there can be few complaints of stuffy
8 November 2016
HC questions legality of Jessore youth’s imprisonment
The High Court questions the legality of sentencing a youth to two years imprisonment by a mobile court in Chaugachha upazila of Jessore for having drug.
8 November 2016
37 Bangladeshi job seekers held in Libya
At least 37 Bangladeshi fortune seekers, who tried to reach Italy through Mediterranean Sea, are kept at a detention centre in Libya’s Gharyan town.
8 November 2016
Charges pressed against Khadiza’s attacker
Police have submitted charge sheet against suspended student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Badrul Alam in connection with the gruesome attack on Sylhet college girl Khadiza Akter on October 3.
8 November 2016
Home boss, police chief visit attacked Hindus
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and State Minister for Youth and Sports Biren Sikder visit Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar following the spate of attacks on the Hindus.
8 November 2016
65 Bangladeshi fortune-seekers rescued in Libya
At least 65 Bangladeshi fortune-seekers are rescued from the traffickers’ den in the remote area of Tripoli, the capital city of the war-torn Libya. Libyan police also arrest four Bangladeshi human traffickers for their alleged involvement in abducting these 65 jobseekers and realising ransoms from the victim families.
7 November 2016
National Service Programme for youths expanded
Bangladesh’s cabinet decides to expand “National Service Programme” in 64 upazilas across the country for youths’ skill development through training.
7 November 2016
Gaibandha Santals claim mass tyranny, cops deny
Ethnic minority Santals of Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj have claimed of mass oppression upon them as a sequel to clashes with police over land dispute. They say locals are looting their livestock and belongings. However, police deny such allegations and say peace is prevailing in the area.
7 November 2016
Mymensingh char people continue protest
Thousands of char people yesterday blocked a road demanding removal of their farmlands and homesteads from the
6 November 2016
India concerned over safety of Bangladesh Hindus
India has conveyed its concerns to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina about the security of Hindu community in Bangladesh, in the backdrop of recent attacks on the minority group in Brahmanbaria.
6 November 2016
Weakened depression crossing Ctg coast
The deep depression that formed over the Bay of Bengal weakened into a depression and started to cross Chittagong coast.
6 November 2016
40-day scheme yet to start for fund crisis
A good number of farm labourers of five upazilas in the district are going through a serious job crisis.
5 November 2016
Photos of PM, Bangabandhu torched
A college principal was arrested in Chatmohar upazila of the district yesterday on charge of torching photographs of Father of the Nation
5 November 2016
Struggle for education
The father of a girl newly admitted to a medical college is very worried as he is unable to bear the expenses of her education.
5 November 2016
6 villages under threat of erosion
Around 1,500 families of six villages in Dharmapasha upazila of Sunamganj have been passing their days in fear of erosion of their
5 November 2016
Attack on Hindus: Sayedul to brief media tomorrow
Amid widespread criticism for his comments over the attack on Hindu community in Nasirnagar, Fisheries Minister Muhammed Sayedul Hoque is to brief the media in Brahmanbaria on November 6, 2016.
5 November 2016
Attack on Hindus: Nirmul committee wants judicial probe
Ekattorer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee blames the failure of the local administrations and police behind the October 30 attacks on Hindu temples and Hindu community in Brahmanbaria.
5 November 2016
Laxmi idol found at Brahmanbaria mosque
Six days into the attack on Hindu temples and houses in Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria, police recover an idol of Goddess Laxmi from a mosque in the upazila.
5 November 2016
Maritime ports asked to hoist signal 4
Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to hoist local warning signal No four lowering local cautionary signal No three, according to the latest weather bulletin by Bangladesh Meteorological Department.
5 November 2016