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Zobaida Khatun Chowdhury: A life carved in courage
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Armenian heritage in Bangladesh
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Witnessing a nation in the making: A journalist’s journey to Mujibnagar
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Adaitwa Mallabarman - An author of the soil
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The pain of water
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How did Pahela Baishakh become a public celebration?
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Slow Reads Special
‘Al-Qaeda was planning countrywide attack’
Law enforcers claim arrest of 12 militants of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent including its Bangladesh chief coordinator from Dhaka.
2 July 2015, 05:07 AM
Rajabazar in hell (video)
Rajabazar dwellers in Dhaka face intolerable sufferings due to the ongoing construction works of sewage system, which has continued for months.
1 July 2015, 08:02 AM
2 Bangladeshis, 7 Myanmarese held in Malaysia
Seven Myanmarese and two Bangladeshi men were arrested for their alleged involvement in a regional human trafficking syndicate from
30 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Advance ticket sale for Eid travel starts Friday
Private bus operators will start selling advance tickets on Friday to assist holidaymakers in reaching their destination ahead of Eid to
30 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Human rights situation worsens
Compared to the same period last year, the overall human rights situation in this year's first half worsened as power abuse by law
30 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Cops 'torture' RU BCL leader
Police allegedly tortured a Bangladesh Chhatra League leader of Rajshahi University after detaining him on the charge of "verbally
30 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Savar RMG workers protest 'unpaid overtime'
Several hundred RMG workers yesterday demonstrated at their factory in Dhaka Export Processing Zone in Savar of Dhaka protesting
30 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Razzak’s health improving: Doctor
Brushing aside the confusion over the “death” of Bangla film actor Razzak, the doctor under whom the film star is being treated says Razzak is not dead.
30 June 2015, 14:08 PM
Appeal for help
Six-year-old Folehera Tanzina Mithi has been suffering from blood cancer for over two years.
29 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Movie star Razzak’s condition improved, says family
The condition of renowned Bangla film actor Abdur Razzak has improved, his youngest son Samrat says.
29 June 2015, 09:33 AM
Renowned film actor Razzak in ICU
Renowned film actor Razzak, also widely known as “Nayak Raj Razzak”, was shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU) of the capital's United Hospital yesterday.
28 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Fake note gangs on the go again in Bangladesh
Money counterfeiting gangs are active again ahead of Eid, when people spend a lot in shopping and fake notes change hands often undetected.
28 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Convict dies at N'ganj jail
A convicted prisoner, who had been serving jail term at the district jail in a drug case, died at Narayanganj General Hospital on Saturday afternoon.
28 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Recover Gazipur forest land from grabbers
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts yesterday asked the forest department to soon recover forest land in Gazipur from grabbers.
28 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Current gas reserve to last 16 yrs
With measured use, the country’s current gas reserve will last for about the next 16 years, Nasrul Hamid, state minister for power says in the parliament.
28 June 2015, 10:50 AM
Down in downpour
Life in the capital and elsewhere in the country was in an utter shambles yesterday due to incessant rain for the last four days.
Thirteen more deaths in rain-induced incidents were reported in Cox's Bazar yesterday, raising the toll to 21 in the coastal district in the past couple of days. Two others were killed in Bandarban on Thursday.
Flash floods inundated more areas, leaving several thousand people marooned in Narayanganj and Chandpur.
27 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Appeal for help
A 10-year-boy Sourov Sikder, only son of Govinda Chandra Sikder of Madaripur, has been undergoing treatment for cancer at
27 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Kamal president, Moslem secy of newspaper hawkers union
Mostafa Kamal and Moslem Mian have been elected president and secretary of the managing committee of Dhaka Newspaper Hawkers
27 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Man's body recovered from Karnaphuli river
Police recovered the body of an unidentified man, aged around 48, from the Karnaphuli River near Avoy Mitra Ghat in Chittagong city on
27 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Utter Insult To The Sovereign
Utter Insult To The Sovereign
27 June 2015, 18:00 PM