The young radicals who challenged 19th-century Bengal
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More men are cooking. But is patriarchy leaving the kitchen?
23 September 2026
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Everyday secularism and the Bangladesh we rarely talk about
22 September 2026
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Reading Sarat Chandra at 150, with empathy
21 September 2026
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Who really owned Britain’s royal jewels?
19 September 2026
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The 25,000-year history of betel nut chewing
17 September 2026
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The world map we know is distorted. Why does it matter?
15 September 2026
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Bengal and the coming of Islam: A story of soil and spirit
14 September 2026
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Xuanzang’s travels to Bengal and beyond : The man, the pilgrim and the Monkey King
11 September 2026
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Professor Anisur Rahman: The economist who put people at the centre
10 September 2026
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Abducted bank official freed after payment of ransom
A bank official, who had been abducted from DEPZ bus stand on Monday evening, was released yesterday in Baruipara of Ashulia in
8 September 2015
40 students faint during lightning in Gazipur
Forty female students, of Boldighat JM High School in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur, became senseless during lightning yesterday.
8 September 2015
Family urges PM not to forward mercy petition
Family members of Fauzia Rahman Chapa, who was brutally killed in Barisal 26 years ago, yesterday urged the prime minister not to
8 September 2015
Public anger sparks against Shahadat
Protest against cricketer Shahadat Hossain and his wife Nrittya Shahadat spilled over onto the street yesterday from social media for torturing their domestic help.
8 September 2015
Teachers' rift widening
The sharp division between teachers of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust), created around the protest demanding the vice chancellor's removal, is becoming more prominent day by day with one group accusing the other yesterday of pursuing personal interests.
7 September 2015
IRRI DG visits BRRI in Gazipur
Director General of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Robert S Zeigler visited Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) yesterday in Gazipur, said a press release.
7 September 2015
CNG flips at Hatirjheel: 3 hurt
At least three people are injured as a speedy CNG-run auto-rickshaw flips several times after hitting road divider at Hatirjheel in Dhaka.
7 September 2015
Breakfast at Rajshahi eatery makes 30 sick
At least 30 people, mostly cattle traders, fell seriously ill and became unconscious after having breakfast at an eatery in City Bypass Haat area on the outskirts of Rajshahi city yesterday.
6 September 2015
Have passengers' reps in decision making bodies
Bangladesh Passengers' Welfare Association yesterday demanded inclusion of representatives from passengers in the government committees which fix and revise public transport fare.
6 September 2015
Solution only in free rivers, canals
The capital may face a much worse flooding in future than what it suffered last week if canals and floodplains are not reclaimed soon, cautioned noted civil engineer Prof Jamilur Reza Choudhury.
5 September 2015
Austria, Germany open borders to refugees
Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants yesterday, bussed to the Hungarian border by a
5 September 2015
Nurul president, Aminul secy of journalists' housing assoc
Senior journalists Nurul Huda and Aminul Haque have been elected president and secretary respectively of the Dhaka Sangbadik Griho Sangsthan Samabay Samity for the next three years.
5 September 2015
Cops yet to confirm nature of Gonojagoron Mancha activist's death in Sylhet
Police are yet to confirm whether the death of Sylhet Gonojagoron Mancha activist Shahriar Majumdar was a suicide or murder.
5 September 2015
Govt univ teachers to strike Tuesday countrywide
Teachers yesterday called a strike for Tuesday across all the public universities demanding revision of the proposed eight national payscale and a separate one for them.
5 September 2015
Eminent citizens again seek PM's intervention
Eminent citizens yesterday requested Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's initiative to ensure justice for the brutal murder of Tanwir
5 September 2015
Attackers of religious minorities won't be spared
There will be no place for the perpetrators, who attack on religious minorities in Bangladesh, said Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam yesterday.
“I was very shocked hearing that houses and businesses of Hindus had been attacked and grabbed in some areas. We cannot allow such things in an independent country,” he said.
5 September 2015
US-Bangla aircraft skids off runway at Syedpur Airport
Operations at Syedpur Airport in Nilphamari were halted for two hours yesterday after a wheel of an aircraft of US-Bangla airlines
4 September 2015
Save Pahartali European Club
Socio cultural and right activists yesterday demanded that the government preserve the historic Pahartali European Club as “Pritilata
4 September 2015
Three policemen closed
Three members of Bagharpara Police Station were closed to the District Police Lines on Thursday night after a constable arrested in
4 September 2015
Sarigaan: Male Domain, Female Paradigm
With references to dehototto (esoteric knowledge of the human body), symbols and metaphors of the human body are commonly used in Bangla folk songs.
4 September 2015