The young radicals who challenged 19th-century Bengal
24 September 2026
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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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Savar RMG workers protest 'unpaid overtime'
Several hundred RMG workers yesterday demonstrated at their factory in Dhaka Export Processing Zone in Savar of Dhaka protesting
30 June 2015
Razzak’s health improving: Doctor
Brushing aside the confusion over the “death” of Bangla film actor Razzak, the doctor under whom the film star is being treated says Razzak is not dead.
30 June 2015
Appeal for help
Six-year-old Folehera Tanzina Mithi has been suffering from blood cancer for over two years.
29 June 2015
Movie star Razzak’s condition improved, says family
The condition of renowned Bangla film actor Abdur Razzak has improved, his youngest son Samrat says.
29 June 2015
Fake note gangs on the go again in Bangladesh
Money counterfeiting gangs are active again ahead of Eid, when people spend a lot in shopping and fake notes change hands often undetected.
28 June 2015
Convict dies at N'ganj jail
A convicted prisoner, who had been serving jail term at the district jail in a drug case, died at Narayanganj General Hospital on Saturday afternoon.
28 June 2015
Recover Gazipur forest land from grabbers
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts yesterday asked the forest department to soon recover forest land in Gazipur from grabbers.
28 June 2015
Renowned film actor Razzak in ICU
Renowned film actor Razzak, also widely known as “Nayak Raj Razzak”, was shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the capital's United Hospital yesterday.
28 June 2015
Current gas reserve to last 16 yrs
With measured use, the country’s current gas reserve will last for about the next 16 years, Nasrul Hamid, state minister for power says in the parliament.
28 June 2015
Down in downpour
Life in the capital and elsewhere in the country was in an utter shambles yesterday due to incessant rain for the last four days.
Thirteen more deaths in rain-induced incidents were reported in Cox's Bazar yesterday, raising the toll to 21 in the coastal district in the past couple of days. Two others were killed in Bandarban on Thursday.
Flash floods inundated more areas, leaving several thousand people marooned in Narayanganj and Chandpur.
27 June 2015
Appeal for help
A 10-year-boy Sourov Sikder, only son of Govinda Chandra Sikder of Madaripur, has been undergoing treatment for cancer at
27 June 2015
Kamal president, Moslem secy of newspaper hawkers union
Mostafa Kamal and Moslem Mian have been elected president and secretary of the managing committee of Dhaka Newspaper Hawkers
27 June 2015
Man's body recovered from Karnaphuli river
Police recovered the body of an unidentified man, aged around 48, from the Karnaphuli River near Avoy Mitra Ghat in Chittagong city on
27 June 2015
Utter Insult To The Sovereign
Utter Insult To The Sovereign
27 June 2015
LET IT RAIN
But life has more than one dimension where people's ideology, belief, musical performance, livelihood strategies, etc. are interconnected and it is
26 June 2015
Rain triggers landslides
At least 10 people were killed yesterday in incidents triggered by unrelenting monsoon rain that continued to disrupt routine life across the country.
26 June 2015
Wave of terror attacks in three continents
Terrorists attacked sites in France, Tunisia and Kuwait yesterday, leaving a bloody toll on three continents and prompting new concerns
26 June 2015
Razzak back home, finally
BGB Nayek Abdur Razzak “was gnawed by a member of Myanmar BGP” in the scuffle while being abducted on June 17, the BGP delegation claimed at the flag meeting over his return yesterday.
25 June 2015
Oil spill spreads again
More oil spilled from the train wagons that fell into a canal in Chittagong a week ago, threatening the ecosystem in and around the Karnaphuli river.
25 June 2015
New scheme to protect 4 cities from earthquake
The government has taken up a Tk 1,381 crore project to protect four cities, including Dhaka, from earthquakes. About 96 percent of the money would be from the World Bank.
25 June 2015