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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Bench asst on three-day remand for 'issuing fake bail orders'
A Dhaka court yesterday placed a bench assistant of Dhaka Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, on a three-day remand in a case filed for
30 August 2015
Taher, Nani implicated in Netrakona freedom fighter murder again
A prosecution witness yesterday corroborated testimonies of previous witnesses that Obaidul Haque Taher and Ataur Rahman Nani killed freedom fighter Dabir Hossain in Netrokona town during the Liberation War in 1971.
30 August 2015
Public univ teachers strike for third day
Teachers continued demonstrations and observed a three-hour work stoppage at public universities across the country yesterday demanding cancellation of the proposed eight national payscale and a new one for them.
30 August 2015
Prof Zafar Iqbal shell-shocked as students swoop on teachers
Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal perhaps could not believe what had just happened -- some students of his university swooping on their teachers right before his eyes.
30 August 2015
UN chief calls for refugee action
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed yesterday to governments to step up their response to Europe's migrant crisis following more drowning at sea and the discovery of migrant bodies in an abandoned truck in Austria.
29 August 2015
Mahatma Gandhi Smarak Sadan holds discussion in capital
Mahatma Gandhi and Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam were poles apart, but they both had a common dream to free their motherland from British
29 August 2015
Rescuing water bodies from grabbers an imperative
The government must immediately reclaim the designated flood flow zones, water retention areas and canals from realtors and
29 August 2015
Sold my property to Khandker Mosharraf willingly at fair price
Dayamoyee Asram owner Arun Guha Majumder yesterday said he willingly sold his Jheeltuli house in Faridpur to LGRD Minister Khandker
29 August 2015
Land erosion worsens
The flood water started receding from Lalmonirhat and Gaibandha but erosions by the rivers Dharla and Jamuna, which were triggered
28 August 2015
Dhaka river choked as authorities remain silent
A spinning mill now stands on a flood plain earmarked as conservable in the capital's master plan with the authorities playing the role
28 August 2015
Reading Nazrul Islam after Walter Benjamin
‘Early in his life, Kazi Nazrul Islam, the most notable Muslim poet of modern Bengal, edited and published a weekly Bengali journal named Dhumketu, the Comet.
28 August 2015
Kazi Zafar's family wants to bury him on JS premises
Family members late Kazi Zafar Ahmed, chairman of a faction of Jatiya Party and former prime minister during HM Ershad's regime, sought
28 August 2015
Female blogger seeks police protection
A blogger files a general diary with Mohammadpur Police Station in Dhaka this afternoon seeking protection as she fears for her life.
28 August 2015
1, 100 Bangladeshis and Rohingyas died in sea in 18 months
At least 70 people are estimated to have died of starvation, dehydration, disease and abuse by the crews at sea on ships abandoned in May this year, said the UN Refugee Agency yesterday.
27 August 2015
Bangladesh, Mexico sign MoU to boost relations
Bangladesh and Mexico have agreed to start a dialogue to expand bilateral relations including strengthening trade and commerce.
27 August 2015
Myanmarese separatist group Arakan Army attack BGB patrol team
Myanmarese separatist group Arakan Army swooped on a Border Guard Bangladesh patrol team in Boro Modak area of Thanchi in
26 August 2015
Digital attendance system introduced at DSCC
Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) introduced a digital attendance management system yesterday.
26 August 2015
Rabies vaccines scarce for Ctg division poor
Poor dog bite victims in rural areas of Chittagong division have to travel all the way to the port city because only two hospitals there
26 August 2015
Consumers still feel unsafe about food
Nearly two years into passage of the Food Safety Act 2013 and six months into formation of the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority
26 August 2015
Chairman of Rajshahi edu board stand released
The chairman of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Rajshahi has been stand released yesterday reportedly in the face of
25 August 2015