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Daria-i-Noor, ‘sister’ to Koh-i-Noor, awaits first light in 117 years
8 October 2025, 15:06 PM
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Nafisa’s HSC result the last memory left with her mother
16 October 2024, 19:58 PM
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A glimpse into Zahir Raihan's Films
19 August 2024, 08:55 AM
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Dubai floods / Thousands of Bangladeshis stranded at Dhaka, Dubai airports
18 April 2024, 13:56 PM
Natural disaster
From outlaws to flower growers
14 April 2024, 06:45 AM
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'Genuine' SSC, HSC certificates for sale!
1 April 2024, 15:14 PM
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Counterfeiting currency / Learning from YouTube, he sells them on Facebook
28 March 2024, 14:43 PM
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Why many countries are trying a four-day work week
21 January 2024, 12:52 PM
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Shaheed Asad: The spark that lit a fuse in 1969
20 January 2024, 14:11 PM
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Japan hires second cat stationmaster in 10 years
Wakayama Electric Railway president Mitsunobu Kojima proudly announces a new cat stationmaster, named Nitama, will be filling Tama's rather petite shoes.
26 August 2015, 07:03 AM
Boy, 12, falls at exhibition, accidentally punches hole in $2 million dollar painting (video)
A 12-year-old boy has tripped and accidentally smashed a hole in an AU $2 million dollar painting on display in Taiwan.
25 August 2015, 13:57 PM
Recharge your car on the road!
A trial in England is hoping to significantly boost the range of electric cars by introducing roads that can charge the vehicles as they drive along them.
25 August 2015, 09:11 AM
Courage! (video)
What could be more courageous than taking on an animal multiple times your size? This goat has the answer as it takes on a cow head on in a feat of sheer will power.
23 August 2015, 08:41 AM
Duck farming gains popularity in Rajshahi region
In the wake of gradually increasing nutritional demand and lucrative market price, commercial farming of ducks including gooses are
22 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Dismaland-Disneyland inspired ‘bemusement park’
Dismaland, which opens to the public Saturday and sits on the 2.5 acre site of the Tropicana lido, is the shadowy artist's first "bemusement park," and it's packed full of subversive artworks.
22 August 2015, 07:05 AM
High school adopts local cat named Bubba as student, gives him ID card
Bubba, a cool cat, lives with his owner Amber Marienthal and her family in a house near Leland High School and Bret Harte Middle School in San Jose of California. Bubba is allowed to wander through the school hallways and hang out in classrooms, meowing whenever he wants to be let in or out. Finally he gets his very own student ID card.
22 August 2015, 02:45 AM
Bangladeshi journalist Probir Sikder demands probe into GD denial
Senior journalist Probir Sikdar yesterday demanded an investigation into police's claim that he didn't hand them over a draft of a general diary.
21 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Delhi tea seller emerges as award winning novelist
Although he looks like any other ordinary tea seller, however, Laxman Rao is a tea-seller with a difference. He owns a small roadside stall, where his customers come not only for the brew, but also a taste of his words, reports the NDTV.
21 August 2015, 13:59 PM
PEARLS OF WISDOM
There are two ways of spreading light – to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM
One man shame for judiciary
A day after the gruesome grenade attack on August 21 in 2004, the then BNP government had formed a one-member inquiry
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM
STAR DIARY
Last week the HSC results got published and my sister could not score a GPA 5. Seeing her results, she burst out into tears and became very upset.
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Testimony to terror sponsored by state
The dreadful memories of captivity still send shudder down his spine. Police tortured Joj Mia in custody to make him confess to a crime he did not commit.
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Elvis Aaron Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as "the King of Rock and Roll", or simply, "the King".
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Minutes of MASSACRE
Amid all those pain and grief, chaos and confusion, she asked them to hold still.
"Stay quiet and don't move now. Recite Doa Yunus... If we're to die, we'll die here; if we're to survive, we'll survive this way," murmured Sheikh Hasina to those who created a human shield around her as grenades rained down on the fateful afternoon of August 21, 2004.
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Mass Extinction accelerates Evolution
A computer science team at The University of Texas at Austin has found that robots evolve more quickly and efficiently after a virtual mass extinction modeled after real-life disasters such as the one that killed off the dinosaurs.
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM
A trip down the grenade-hit lane
I was standing a few feet away from Ivy Rahman. But I didn't know when I was swept along by the crowd and discovered myself posted right behind her.
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM
Ocean Acidification
Marine organisms living in acidified waters exhibit a tendency to nurture their offspring to a greater extent than those in more regular conditions.
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM
AUG 21 BLACK DAY
Aug 21
At 5:22pm, Islamic militant outfit Huji carries out the grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Dhaka, killing 24 people and injuring 300 more. Sheikh Hasina narrowly escapes assassination.
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM
About Town
Art exhibition by Ferdousy Priyobhashini
20 August 2015, 18:00 PM