100 days of BNP government / Hope, crisis, and shadows of old habits complicate honeymoon period
27 May 2026, 11:37 AM
Running a country like Bangladesh is like riding a wild bull -- chaotic and unpredictable
27 May 2026, 11:37 AM
Analysis / The fall of India’s Left has been a slow, steady erosion
5 May 2026, 21:09 PM
Kerala defeat ends last stronghold
5 May 2026, 21:09 PM
Lively debate, yet much left wanting
3 May 2026, 00:00 AM
The first session of the parliament ended with the promise of a vibrant House with lively debates but also revealed weaknesses in the failure to adopt reforms.
3 May 2026, 00:00 AM
‘We are open to opposition input on fuel situation’ - PM tells JS
23 April 2026, 00:00 AM
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman yesterday told parliament that the government will consider the opposition’s proposal regarding the fuel situation and, if it contains realistic measures, will certainly act on them.
23 April 2026, 00:00 AM
20 ordinances lose validity
11 April 2026, 01:59 AM
Twenty of the 133 ordinances issued by the interim government -- including major reforms on judicial independence, human rights, and anti-corruption -- are set to lose validity from today.
11 April 2026, 01:59 AM
Dropped ordinances: Hard-earned reforms at risk
4 April 2026, 02:54 AM
Eminent rights activists have criticised the parliamentary special committee’s recommendation to drop key ordinances issued by the interim government, noting that most of them are tied to crucial reforms.
4 April 2026, 02:54 AM
News analysis / Opportunity for reforms slipping away once more
4 April 2026, 02:49 AM
Bangladesh’s political journey has repeatedly swung between hope and disappointment. The question now is whether the country is about to witness yet another repeat of that cycle.
4 April 2026, 02:49 AM
Key reform ordinances left to expire
3 April 2026, 04:39 AM
A special parliamentary committee, reviewing ordinances issued by the interim government, yesterday recommended that 20 of them lapse or expire, including those aimed at ensuring judicial independence, curbing enforced disappearances, and strengthening the anti-corruption and human rights commissions.
3 April 2026, 04:39 AM
Draft Education Act at Final Stage: Ban on guidebooks, corporal punishment
The education ministry is going to finalise the draft of the Education Act soon keeping a provision for imposing a ban on printing, publishing, and marketing notebooks and guidebooks.
16 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Appointment of CEC, ECs: No law in 49 long years
The country is yet to have a specific law for appointing chief election commissioner and election commissioners though there is a constitutional provision for enacting a law for their appointment.
14 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Municipality Polls Today: Many fear irregularities, violence
Fifty-five municipalities in 34 districts go to polls today amid worries over violence and confusion among many about being able to cast votes in a free and fair manner.
13 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Martyred Intellectuals: Govt finalises definition
Intellectuals who lost their lives at the hands of Pakistani army and their collaborators in the Liberation War will be defined as martyred intellectuals, according to a committee formed by the government.
10 February 2021, 18:00 PM
New EC Guideline: Controversial posts stay, pay rises too
The Election Commission has drafted a guideline for imparting training to polls-related officials, keeping in it controversial positions like “special speakers” and “course advisers” amid allegations of financial corruption through such posts.
10 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Elections to 4,300 union parishads could be delayed
Starting of staggered elections to over 4,300 union parishads (UP) might be delayed because of completion of final voter list and Ramadan.
4 February 2021, 18:00 PM
EVMs drew fewer voters than ballots
Voter turnout at municipalities that used Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were five percent lower than the turnout in municipalities that used ballot papers.
2 February 2021, 18:00 PM
Buet says no to uniform admission test
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has decided not to join a cluster to hold a uniform admission test; rather it would enrol students through its own admission tests like previous years.
2 February 2021, 18:00 PM
HSC, Equivalent: Stellar results in exams never held
A record-setting number of students got GPA 5 in last year’s HSC, thanks to the lack of actual exams and the results being reflections of each student’s grades in public exams held before the pandemic.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM
From the archives: The last battlefield
Across the country, red-green flags were fluttering over buildings -- euphoria was in the air following the end of a nine-month-long bloody war.
30 January 2021, 18:00 PM
HSC, equivalent results 2020: GPA 5 galore
A total of 1,61,807 students achieved GPA 5, the maximum grade point average, in Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent results for 2020, over 3 times more than that of the previous year.
30 January 2021, 12:47 PM
Election today in 62 more municipalities
A total of 62 municipalities would go to polls today amid worries of violence.
29 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Partial Resumption of Classes: Schools, colleges asked to prepare
Only the 10th and 12th graders have to attend classes in person every day while other secondary school and college students may visit their classrooms once a week when their educational institutions reopen during the pandemic.
24 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Education During Pandemic: Digital divide wreaks damage
Distance learning programmes through television, radio and internet, adopted after the school closure due to Covid-19, remain by and large ineffective, finds a study.
19 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Similar projects, different stories
In 2017, the government took up a four-and-a-half-year project, worth over Tk 3,900 crore, to construct bridges in rural areas for boosting agricultural and non-agricultural productions as well as sending the produce to the market easily.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM
60 municipalities go to polls amid violence worries
Elections to 60 municipalities will take place today amid fears of further violence in many places.
15 January 2021, 18:00 PM
CAG finds financial anomalies at EC
The Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has detected financial anomalies in the Election Commission’s expenditure on paying many of its trainers ahead of the last parliamentary polls and upazila elections.
11 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Litterateur Rabeya Khatun passes away
Eminent novelist Rabeya Khatun died in the capital yesterday afternoon.
3 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Schools won’t open now: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said educational institutions will not reopen before the pandemic is contained.
31 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Covid-time Education: New approach, old disparity
When the Covid-19 outbreak led to a closure of educational institutions in late March, students, guardians and teachers alike speculated that the disruption would last a few months.
29 December 2020, 18:00 PM