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A NEW VICTORY ON THE HORIZON

There was a time when animal rights activists like Rubaiya Ahmad, Founder, Obhoyaronno Animal Welfare Foundation, would go to file cases or fight against animal abusers, but in vain.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

A Celebration of life

The people of Chunarughat observed something unique on the morning of March 10. Hundreds of activists, musicians and artists...
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Who Defines Obscenity?

Recently, the news of a Dhaka University (DU) teacher's suspension – following claims from some of his Masters students that he showed ...
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

MAILBOX

During my time at university, one of my friends, from an indigenous community, and I used to share a dorm room.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

SNAPSHOT

“Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.”
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

How data is revolutionising football

Data and sport have never been the most natural of bedfellows. The battle lines have been very clearly drawn by traditional culture –
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Zombie apocalypse and how to obtain a driving license in Bangladesh

There are two ways to get a driving license in Bangladesh. One involves roughly seven steps for most people.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

About Town

IHF Charity Gala Night 2017
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Why should the Vault 7 leaks bother you?

Year Zero, the first part of the Vault 7 dump, introduces the scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking programme, its malware arsenal and dozens of 'zero day' weaponised exploits against a wide range of US and European company products.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Through the submerged world of Barisal

I like to think that poet Jibanananda Das derived inspiration for his seminal poem Banalata Sen during his times in Barisal.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Zahid Hasan

In 1929, German mathematician and theoretical physicist Hermann Weyl predicted the existence of a massless quasiparticle that kept physicists puzzled for 86 years.
16 March 2017, 18:00 PM

About Town

First Puppet Show of DP Theatre in History of Bangladesh
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Ministry of Civil Movements: Think Like Us, Think for Us

Bangladesh took remarkable strides towards a fully fair and functioning democracy by officially inaugurating the brand new Ministry of Civil Movements.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

The Invisible Population

Senwara Begum sits at the door of her small hut with her nine-month-old baby at her breast. She has three other children, but there is nothing in the house to feed them.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Who Rules Our Roads?

2000, 1958, 1535, 1396 – these are the numbers of people killed in the lawless roads and highways of Bangladesh over the last four years.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

After The Accident

48-year-old service holder Oshim Kumar Saha had a terrible motorbike accident in 2015; at a 'black spot' near Iliasganj Bazaar of Daudkandi in Dhaka-Chittagong highway (a black spot is a place that has a record of large numbers of crashes).
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

Keep only the good cops, please

The recent transfer of a police official to the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) on February 23 shocked the people of CHT, and those on the plain lands who are aware of the sensitive situation in the region.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

American Muslims Must Stop Apologising

I had recently been asked to give a talk about “being an American Muslim in the United States.” Although wary of the uses and abuses of the term, I obliged.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

And Still The Man Stays Unscathed

All in a week's work. March has barely started. We already have five men (at least) raping, assaulting and killing the women they thought were below them.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM

MAILBOX

Bangladesh is an overpopulated country, which is burdened with a huge number of unemployed men and women.
9 March 2017, 18:00 PM