Passengers speak up against harassment at public hearing

College student Zunayed Ahmad used to travel by bus from Mirpur-10 to Farmgate for Tk 10-12. But for the last couple of days, he was
11 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Prisoner dies at Rajshahi jail

An elderly prisoner, sentenced to life-term imprisonment in a murder case, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital yesterday.
10 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Who said what after the killings

Investigators have yet to make any headway in the probe into the recent killings of two foreigners in Bangladesh. Police officials refrain
10 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Work for entertainment village starts next March

Two international and two local companies have primarily qualified to set up the first ever exclusive tourism resort and entertainment
10 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Medical question leak: Protestors call for independent probe

Protestors demand for an independent probe into allegations of question leak that marred this year’s medical and dental admission tests.
10 October 2015, 08:58 AM

Abdul Karim's discoveries - Origins of modernity in Bengali literature

Abdul Karim discovered that there existed also Muslim writers of quality in Bengali literature and, what's more, their quantity also is far from negligible. In diction their works, for instance, those of the 17th century lauraetes Kazi Daulat (1600-1638) or Syed Alaol (1607-1680) are no less 'elevated and dignified,' i.e., Sanskritized in measure than Bharatchandra Ray's (1712-1760) or Madhusudan Datta's (1824-1873) of later fame.
9 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Plan for partisan polls a conspiracy

The plan to make the local government elections partisan is a strategy to send BNP's demand for a fresh national
9 October 2015, 18:00 PM

UK heightens alert, fears further attack on westerners in Bangladesh

The United Kingdom apprehends more attacks on westerners in Bangladesh and those could be indiscriminate.
9 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Tunisia activists win Nobel Peace Prize in boost to fledgling democracy

Tunisian civil society groups won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for helping to create the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring, at a time when the country is under threat from jihadist violence.
9 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Probe medical admission test question leak

Academics, intellectuals, and cultural activists yesterday joined the cause of medical college hopefuls and called for
9 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Mojaheed's family meets him in jail

Condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed's wife Tamanna-E-Jahan hoped that the authorities concerned of the state including the president, prime minister, chief justice will play roles in ensuring justice for her husband in review of the Supreme Court ruling that upheld his death penalty.
9 October 2015, 18:00 PM

UK fears fresh attacks on westerners

The United Kingdom is apprehensive about more attacks on westerners in Bangladesh, saying those could be indiscriminate.
9 October 2015, 13:26 PM

Barisal hospital interns abstain from work for 4hr after attack

Attendants attacked interns of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barisal yesterday following the death of a
8 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Family to meet Mojaheed at Dhaka Central Jail today

Family members of condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed will meet him at Dhaka Central Jail today.
8 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Int'l standard education must for development

Global Study, an education consultancy firm in Dhaka, celebrated its 11th founding anniversary in the capital's The
8 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Belarusian writer Alexievich wins Nobel Literature Prize

Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize yesterday, honoured for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime.
8 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Mawna OC accused of beating driver

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was hospitalised yesterday after the Mawna Highway Police Station o%cer-in-charge
7 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Rights bodies blame impunity, violent political climate

Lack of rule of law, failure to mete out exemplary punishment and current practice of cadre-based politics which requires demonstration of power are some of the main causes for increasing and brutish violence against children.
7 October 2015, 18:00 PM

Train delayed for 4 hours as driver sleeps in Bangladesh

What happens when a train driver is fatigued, having worked late into the night, and has a train to drive in the morning?
7 October 2015, 18:00 PM

70 freed from Bangladesh’s jail on fake bail in 5 months

A temporary staff at a Dhaka court sent fake bail orders to Dhaka Central Jail authorities for five months till June to have released at least 70 accused in cases over illegal trade of drugs, and arms and ammunition.
7 October 2015, 18:00 PM