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Jamaat alleges voting irregularities in Bogura-6 by-polls, Sherpur-3 election

9 April 2026, 15:02 PM Bangladesh

Rumeen Farhana parliament speech against political appointments

'If one can't be appointed without party affiliation, that is unfortunate'

7 April 2026, 17:42 PM Parliament

Artemis crew reaches the moon, approaches record-breaking distance from Earth

6 April 2026, 16:39 PM Science

Govt to import 2 lakh tonnes of urea

18 March 2026, 02:40 AM Bangladesh

Khrushchev’s Secret Speech: The 4 hours that shattered Stalin’s empire

25 February 2026, 19:08 PM Historical

Man stabbed to death in Jashore

20 February 2026, 23:03 PM Crime

interim government advisers asset disclosure Bangladesh

Shafiqul Alam returns to journalism, joins 'The Daily Waadaa' as editor

18 February 2026, 16:13 PM Bangladesh

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How to spot disinformation on social media

10 February 2026, 17:48 PM Tech & Startup

NCP to launch election campaign from Tin Netar Mazar in Dhaka tomorrow

21 January 2026, 18:59 PM Elections

Left-aligned platform NPA launched at Central Shaheed Minar

16 January 2026, 17:54 PM Politics

Unconventional narrators dominate the 2022 Booker Prize longlist

Glory is narrated by a vivid chorus of animal voices, while Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is partly told by the malevolent cancer travelling through the body of protagonist Lia.

27 July 2022, 12:10 PM

Stocks rise for second day

Stocks in Bangladesh continued to rise for the second consecutive day today, thanks to the buying tendency among institutional investors.

26 July 2022, 11:07 AM

July’s ULAB Literary Salon discusses Bangladeshi short story anthologies

An engaging discussion on translations unfolded at the event.

26 July 2022, 07:48 AM

Devote yourselves for the interest of people: PM to public servants

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today (July 23, 2022) asked the public servants to devote themselves to the welfare of the people who pay taxes for their salaries, comforts and luxuries.

23 July 2022, 08:57 AM

Revelling in nature

If you are planning a vacation or having a break from work, there is hardly a destination better than Cox’s Bazar.

22 July 2022, 18:00 PM

1,104 new Covid cases and 1 death recorded

The health directorate yesterday reported just one death from Covid-19, down from eight the previous day.

20 July 2022, 18:00 PM

The retrospection of Christopher Isherwood: A man exploring the heart of falling Berlin

Perhaps his most significant occupation was one as a diarist who took it upon himself to document his life as he moved through some of the most interesting scenes of human history.

16 July 2022, 13:48 PM

Sudden Jamuna erosion makes many homeless

Sudden erosion by the Jamuna river has devoured several homesteads and vast farmlands within a few hours at Mazzan village in Sirajganj’s Shahzadpur upazila last week, creating panic among the villagers.

13 July 2022, 18:00 PM

Homegoers get stuck in tailbacks

People going to their hometowns from Dhaka to spend Eid suffered immensely due to shortage of buses, long tailbacks on the highways and delayed trains.

8 July 2022, 18:00 PM

9.87pc pass in DU Kha Unit entry test

Only 9.87 percent students passed in Dhaka University’s Kha Unit admission test for the academic session of 2021-22.

27 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Commentary by Mahfuz Anam: Sheikh Hasina’s ‘finest hour’

Borrowing from the title of the second volume of Winston Churchill’s six-part history of the Second World War, I would like to term the completion of the Padma Bridge as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s “finest hour”.

24 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Battery-run rickshaw drivers protest in Chattogram

Boy killed in landslide

A 12-year-old boy was killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rain in Chattogram city’s Sholoshahar early yesterday.

20 June 2022, 18:00 PM

‘Let’s go home; let’s go to Myanmar’

Thousands of Rohingyas yesterday held a rally in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar -- to tell the world that they want to go back to their homeland Myanmar, marking World Refugee Day.

19 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Covid positivity rate highest in 16 weeks

As the country’s Covid-19 positivity rate yesterday stood at 5.76 percent -- the highest since February 22, Health Minister Zahid Maleque urged people to take the vaccine booster shots.

16 June 2022, 18:00 PM

15 killed in South Africa bus collision

Fifteen people were killed and 37 injured yesterday when a bus and a truck collided on a South African highway near the capital Pretoria, an emergency services spokesman told AFP.

10 June 2022, 18:00 PM

WB revises down growth forecast for Bangladesh

Taking into account the Ukraine war, the World Bank reduced Bangladesh’s economic growth projection to 6.7 percent for the next fiscal year from its January forecast of 6.9 percent.

7 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Their sense of duty prevailed over all else

For many young people facing unemployment, becoming a firefighter is a dream.

6 June 2022, 18:00 PM

Street fighting rages in Severodonetsk

Ukrainian and Russian troops fought street-by-street to win control of the industrial city of Severodonetsk yesterday in the pivotal battle of the Kremlin’s eastern Ukraine offensive.