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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Hazaribagh tanners must relocate to Savar by Dec 30: Amu
Hazaribagh tanners must relocate to Savar by December 30 otherwise all sorts of utility services including gas and electricity supplies will be cut off from their establishments.
16 October 2016
Mahaa Wagyawai Powe festival begins today
Traditional Mahaa Wagyawai Powe festival, the second largest festival of Marma community in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, will begin in
15 October 2016
Try killers of Pradip
Speakers at a rally in the district town yesterday demanded trial of the killers of school student Pradip Dutta and punishment to them.
15 October 2016
Zafar Iqbal, wife receive death threat
Eminent writer and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) Professor Dr Muhammad Zafar Iqbal and his wife Dr Yesmeen Huq receive death threats via two separate text messages from an unidentified person claiming to be affiliated with banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT).
15 October 2016
Wild elephant kills Sherpur woman
An old woman is killed in an elephant attack at Tawakucha village in Jhinaigati upazila.
15 October 2016
The wonders of ancient China
China is one of the birth places of human civilisation. With an exotic historical past, China has attracted travellers and tourists from around the world for hundreds of years. In a recent trip to China, Shamsuddoza Sajen of The Daily Star has tried to get a glimpse of the grandeur of Ancient China through his visits to the Great Wall, the Shimao Site and the Terracota Warrior Sites.
14 October 2016
Bird poachers make quick buck as actions rare
Illegal catching and sale of birds especially parrots, goes on under the nose of the authorities concerned in Lalmonirhat.
13 October 2016
ACC suspends its official for negligence
Anti-Corruption Commission has suspended one of its assistant directors on charges of negligence in duty and abuse of power.
13 October 2016
Shutdown of settlers in CHT underway
Bangalee organisations have clamped a shutdown across the three districts of Chittagong Hill Tracts in protest against the latest changes to the local land dispute settlement body.
13 October 2016
Wild elephants destroy paddy fields
Some wild elephants have been attacking villages in the new Muroicherra tea garden area under Kulaura Upazila of Moulvibazar and
11 October 2016
Three villages without roads in Khagrachhari
Three villages in Khagrachhari Municipality sees very little development due to absence of roads.
11 October 2016
Four dist roads in sorry state
Several important roads in different districts have remained in awful conditions for long, much to the nuisance of a large number of commuters and traders.
11 October 2016
Jhenidah shoppers at risk of death
With 350 shopkeepers busy at work, the covered market in the centre of Jhenidah's Kaliganj town has a lot to offer. Hundreds of
11 October 2016
Farmer dies in elephant attack
A farmer was killed and two others were injured in an attack by wild elephants in Bakura area under Jhinaigati upazila of Sherpur on
11 October 2016
Radha Mandir without electricity
Sree Sree Radha Govinda Mandir at Hindu para of Jail Road in Lalmonirhat town has been without electricity as the 200-
10 October 2016
Business suffers as road in sorry state
The five and a half kilometre road from the district headquarters to Mahendranagar-Borobari has been in awful
10 October 2016
Council approval must for university degree
The cabinet approves a draft law with a provision that no university would be able to offer certificates without the approval of a council to be formed by the government. A chairman will lead the 13-member council.
10 October 2016
Search operation at Tampaco formally ends
The search operation at Tampaco Foils Ltd factory that was reduced to rubble in a massive fire triggered by explosions in Tongi of Gazipur on September 10 concluded formally.
10 October 2016
Tamed elephant dies of electrocution in Ctg
A tamed elephant that escaped from a group of three was electrocuted in Hathazari upazila of Chittagong last night.
10 October 2016
8 doctors run 500-bed Pabna Mental Hospital!
When the world will be observing the 24th World Mental Health Day today, the lone specialised hospital for mental diseases in the
9 October 2016