An Ekushey Book Fair breaking with tradition
21 September 2025, 13:05 PM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / An outlandish jumble of cults, cannibalism, and colonial violence
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / The making of Bangladesh in the global sixties
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOOK REVIEW: FICTION / ‘Apni Ki Alien Dekhte Chan?’: A debut with immense possibility
12 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
ESSAY / 'A terrible beauty is born' in Gaza and West Bank
12 March 2025, 18:00 PM
Books & Literature
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / From protests to power: The journey to Bangladesh’s July Uprising
5 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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THE SHELF / Literature thrives beyond the centre too
5 March 2025, 18:00 PM
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EVENT REPORT / Celebrating diversity and language at “Bhasha Utshob 2025”
26 February 2025, 18:00 PM
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ESSAY / Between tradition and taboo: The arranged marriage trope in Bangla dark romance literature
26 February 2025, 18:00 PM
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BOI MELA 2025 / 5 books to look out for at this year’s Boi Mela
19 February 2025, 18:00 PM
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Then Again Love
Wild darkness of rain...
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Blue Afternoon
Sarah has not seen Naeema since then. She had heard from her other sons that Naeema is teaching in a school and staying with her mother.
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM
In this misty field one day
Nobody will find me walking in this misty field one day, I know;
1 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Struggling since 1971..
Mr Harun-Ar-Rashid is a renowned author, economist, researcher and columnist. Despite being a graduate of Accounting he has written on a wide array of social & political causes/issues. The author has published 40 different books so far as a social novel, research papers, stories and so on.
28 March 2016, 14:21 PM
Genocidal rape should be part of genocide
Eminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday underscored the need for incorporating genocidal rape in the definition of
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM
CU Sangskrit students confine dept head
Around 100 Sangskrit students of Chittagong University confined their departmental chairperson to her office for over
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Good Start to a Series
Only Time Will Tell is the first of seven novels of the Clifton Chronicles series written by Jeffrey Archer.
23 March 2016, 18:00 PM
BNP criticises CEC's fair UP polls claim
BNP yesterday lambasted the chief election commissioner for his comment before journalists on Tuesday that the first
23 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Violence against ethnic minorities increasing
Last year, 85 women and girls from ethnic minority communities, 44 from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and 41 from plain land, became victims of violence, according to "Human Rights Report 2015 on Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh".
23 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Internships introduced for students at Microsoft Bangladesh
Students of different public and private universities in Bangladesh, for the first time, will get internship opportunities
22 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Qulkhwani
The qulkhwani of Manzoor Ahmed, former captain of Kurmitola Golf Club, will be held after the Maghrib prayers today
22 March 2016, 18:00 PM
HC upholds BTRC's decision of seeking Tk 30cr from ETV
The High Court yesterday upheld a Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission (BTRC) decision to seek Tk 30.09 crore from Ekushey Television (ETV) for using its broadcasting frequency.
22 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Drive against illegal signboards, wall paintings from April
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) requested all the business centres and individuals to keep signboards or nameplates in sizes that have been approved
22 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Prosecution asked to submit charges against five Moulvibazar men on May 4
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday asked the prosecution to submit the formal charges, if any, on May 4 against five Moulvibazar men for allegedly committing crimes against humanity and genocide during the 1971 Liberation War.
22 March 2016, 18:00 PM
BNP chief's election remarks distorted
BNP yesterday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was trying to give a wrong impression to the people by distorting Khaleda Zia's recent remarks about the next national election.
21 March 2016, 18:00 PM
China willing to help build deep-sea port
China has expressed its willingness to cooperate with other countries in helping Bangladesh build its first deep-sea port at any
21 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Continual Quest for Knowing and Understanding Bangladesh
Reviewing a book that traces the history of Bangladesh from ancient times in just over 400 pages has been, for me, a formidable experience, especially since a great deal of material has been covered within those pages. Almost as a fiendish twist, for a fairly lengthy portion, the book is as much a Reader's Digest version of Indian history as it is of Bangladesh. However, when one considers the subtitle of the book, A Subcontinental Civilisation, one can acknowledge
20 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Electoral tickets for sale now
It is impossible to get nomination for polls without money as the system has allegedly become a trade in exchange for money, said Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hussain, a former election commissioner, yesterday.
20 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Private Life of the Mughals of India (1526-1803 A.D.)
Bringing to life the opulent, sometimes scandalous, private lives of the Mughals of India, Private Life leaves no detail untouched: their food, drink, clothes
20 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Tale of poverty and poetry
DR. Mohit Kamal, a renowned psychiatrist, mostly known for his psychological novels, is a patron of literature. He has authored a novel titled Dukhu out of his great admiration of the personal and literary life of our national poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam.
20 March 2016, 18:00 PM