Government employees donate 25% of salary for city’s decorations

Red lights. Green light. Then blue lights. And some yellow lights. It doesn’t matter when the colours stop representing what they are meant to because we don’t have enough of those colours.
19 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Employee who was asked to pull up socks, can’t afford socks

A Dhoka employee who was asked to pull up his socks and improve his performance at work yesterday informed his office that he could not even afford socks.
12 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Country’s image more fragile than male ego? One country finally opens up

Osama Rahman [OR]: We all want to know one thing and I want to get right to the point. Why is your image being tarnished so easily? Do critical words really take away from how far you have come since you were declared a basket case by a racist, mass murderer?
12 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Colour no issue as it’s a boy, Bangladeshi matchmaker says on royal family controversy

A Bangladeshi matchmaker kicked up furious debate after she said she did not agree with the British royal family’s concern about the skin colour of Meghan Markle and her less famous husband’s son.
12 March 2021, 18:00 PM

‘Only upload photos’: Country’s Facebook expert suggests

Unpopular philosopher Choclates once said, “I have nothing to say lest it should fall under any act and thus my act of speaking gets deactivated forever.”
5 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Government officially launches The Snitches Club

The Government of Chapasthan officially launched The Snitches Club earlier yesterday. An initiative of the Ministry of Misinformation, the club was inaugurated by the country’s leader, who attended virtually from their official residence.
5 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Entering the dawn of the critical woman

Kim Kardashian, Priyanka Chopra and Kangana Ranaut. These are just some women critical thinkers who were not sent to jail. The list has been cherry-picked so we can all have a laugh and by all, you know exactly who we mean.
5 March 2021, 18:00 PM

Traffic sergeants go on strike, threaten to leave it up to traffic lights

Traffic Sergeants Anonymous (TSA) have announced in a press release that they have had enough of the lawless traffic situation in Chapasthan and will now leave the situation up to traffic lights.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Broke millennials wage social media war at queue to buy cheap onions

A group of snazzily dressed millennials, most working in creative content making and other such artsy fields, yesterday clashed on social media platform ‘Brainbook’ over the long queue to purchase government allotted cheap onions.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Mob, desperate for old normal, assaults doomsday scientists

A group of scientists were beaten up by a holiday mob in Dhoka soon after they made a public service announcement in the city’s biggest shopping mall.
26 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh named Test cricket orientation and rehab centre

Test cricket is one of the most prestigious forms of sport. However, in modern times, it does not enjoy much popularity around the world as the International Cricket Council has not bothered to globalise the sport the way FIFA has been doing for football.
19 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Take it as a challenge, says boss asking for a week’s work in 24 hours

It had been 28 days since Shamim (29) last saw his newborn son. When he asked for paternity leave, his boss said “You should be teaching your son how to be self-sufficient. Do not make the same mistake your father did.”
19 February 2021, 18:00 PM

No jams without rickshaws, says Dhoka mayor after banning the three-wheelers

Dhoka East City Corporation recently banned all rickshaws from plying the city corporation streets, with Mayor Dhapash saying the move was taken to ease the city’s extreme traffic congestion.
19 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Cricket board plants landmines in pitches, it backfires

With an aim to improving their country’s prospects in Test cricket, the Cricket Board of This Country (CBTC) planted landmines in their pitches, but the ploy has only served to maim several of their own batsmen.
12 February 2021, 20:23 PM

Marketing companies release new vaccine called Valentine to celebrate VD

“While people are back to normal and more or less conducting their usual lives again, we can’t always market brands and things like hotel stays and restaurant deals, because people will think we are indirectly advocating for health risks,” a member of the marketing collective said, requesting maximum publicity. “So we did what we do best -- we market-researched. We found that what we need is a vaccine. And we need to market that vaccine at a time when faith in vaccines is high…we just lucked out on that coinciding with Valentine’s Day.”
12 February 2021, 20:02 PM

Noakhali welcomes Aung San Suu Kyi in Bhasanchar

How Suu Kyi lost her power, or whether she has or not, is not the concern at the moment for us, the most hospitable people in the history of the universe.
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Messi suspects ‘Pasher Basar Aunty’ leaked his salary to media

Messi is furious as his incredible salary information was leaked by someone ‘unknown’.
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Meet the disorganised crime family

A disorganised crime family – The Dark Side -- has suddenly come in the crosshairs of a multimillion-dollar propaganda machine, also known as News. Although no one is supposed to talk about it, so as to avoid feeding the propaganda, how innocent Third World country citizens are targeted by more prosperous nations merited some discussion.
5 February 2021, 18:00 PM

Driving school to offer more than driving courses

Durodorshi Driving School has recently introduced an optional extended curriculum in their course. It caters to aspiring and current family private-car drivers who are sometimes expected to do tasks like buying groceries, overseeing construction work, assisting in painting the interior of the house, etc.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM

‘I cannot speak’, Paddya Bridge admits in a press conference

People, especially politicians, think that a bridge, that costs a huge sum of money, should be able to speak for itself.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM