Rohingya genocide case to proceed
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22 July 2022 Rohingya Influx
Need 1 week to assess situation
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22 July 2022 Bangladesh
Noab hikes newspaper price by Tk 2 from Jul 25
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21 July 2022 Bangladesh
Yet-to-start mega projects: Consider putting them on hold
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21 July 2022 Bangladesh
‘You cannot remain silent’
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21 July 2022 Bangladesh

Seeds of Change

The potato is a versatile plant. It's easy to grow potatoes from “seed potatoes”, which are either small potato tubers or larger ones cut
9 March 2018

ROHINGYA REFUGEES: $950m needed in next 10 months

The United Nations and the Bangladesh government have prepared a plan to provide an assistance of $950 million to the Rohingya refugees and the vulnerable locals in Cox's Bazar for 10 months until December. The move comes amid concerns that the repatriation of the refugees would take time.
9 March 2018

March 7 Sexual Harassment: 'Proof found in CCTV footage'

Police yesterday said they found proof of a college girl being sexually assaulted in Banglamotor area on Wednesday, an incident about which she opened up on Facebook.
8 March 2018

March 9, 1971: Hours of solidarity

March 9th, 1971, was a day of solidarity.
8 March 2018

Yes, they can

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the country would move faster towards prosperity if men and women could work together.
8 March 2018

Losing start for sub-par Tigers

Bangladesh suffered a heart-stopping one-run defeat against Virat Kohli's India during the ICC T20 World Cup in 2016. But they were nowhere near to put up even a decent fight against an Indian team sans Kohli at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday.
8 March 2018

Withdrawal of UK Ban: No cheers for Biman, in fact

Nearly three weeks after the UK government's withdrawal of the ban on Dhaka-London direct cargo flights, Bangladeshi exporters are yet to reap any benefit from the decision.
8 March 2018

BNP Sit-in: Police make it eventful

An uneventful sit-in staged by BNP in front of Jatiya Press Club was foiled when plainclothes policemen swooped on Chhatra Dal leader Mizanur Rahman Raju yesterday.
8 March 2018

Breaking the barriers

A room full of women -- young and old and wearing bright clothes and bindis with clinking bangles -- were in a celebratory mood on the eve of International Women's Day yesterday. Every single one of them had a success story following struggle and braking barriers.
7 March 2018

Time is now!

International Women's Day first emerged from women's labour movements at the turn of the twentieth century in North America and
7 March 2018

I am woman

The trouble was love. When Nurunnahar from Boktarpur village in Pabna's Ishwardi upazila married her husband in 1991, neither family
7 March 2018

March 8, 1971: Wind of Change

Following Bangabandhu's speech on the previous day, the air was thick with songs of self-determination.
7 March 2018

Where history began

People from different parts of the capital began their march from as early as 10:00am.
7 March 2018

Stay alert

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the people to remain cautious so that anti-liberation forces, war criminals, killers and looters of orphans' money cannot come to power again.
7 March 2018

SL canter past India

Few could have imagined that there would be a packed 35,000-strong crowd on the opening day of an international series that
6 March 2018

Public Transport: 94pc women harassed

A whopping 94 percent women surveyed have complained of harassment in public transport at a time when more and
6 March 2018

Plot to Kidnap Joy: Court accepts charges against five people

A Dhaka court yesterday accepted charges against Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman, journalist Shafik Rehman and three
6 March 2018

'Some progress' in UN role

Myanmar and the United Nations have made “some progress” in terms of UN's engagement in repatriation of the
6 March 2018

Ethnic cleansing continues in Rakhine: UN

Myanmar is continuing its "ethnic cleansing" of the Rohingya with a "campaign of terror and forced starvation" in Rakhine state, a UN
6 March 2018

Priyabhashini: End to a symbol of Liberation War

Noted sculptor and freedom fighter Ferdousi Priyabhashini passed away in a city hospital yesterday. She was 71.
6 March 2018