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Mass graves in Thailand

At least 32 mass graves of victims of trafficking from Bangladesh and Myanmar were found two days ago in an abandoned jungle in southern Thailand...
4 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Al Qaeda spectre

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent has claimed responsibility for the death of four Bangladeshi bloggers, including US-based Bangladeshi writer Avijit Roy.
4 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Good show

THE Bangladesh cricket team deserves a pat on the back and so do the officials who are associated with the team for a performance that has seen several individual and international records tumble on the last day of the Khulna Test between Bangladesh and Pakistan.
3 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Expanding media

The media is expanding which points to an increasing diversity and volume of information and visuals. Governments tend to equate rising flow of information with free flow of information. A line needs to be drawn there.
3 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Slave Trade Booms In Dark Triangle

Promising jobs in Malaysia, transnational human traffickers held about 2.5 lakh Bangladeshis captive in Thailand...
3 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Survivor says 500 trafficking victims killed in Thai jungle camps

Kuramia, a migrant, paid out Bt 95,000 in ransom to save his nephew Kazim, who was being held at a border camp. But he never saw him alive. His nephew's was among 26 bodies recently exhumed from a mass-grave site in Songkhla's Sadao district.
3 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Open fire on traders!

At least 15 traders were injured and eight were shot with shotgun pellets when the police opened fire and charged batons on them during a mobile court drive inside Banani Super Market on Thursday.
2 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Urban children growing obese

As per a survey published by the ICDDR,B 14 percent of urban children are overweight and a further 4 percent are obese.
2 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Obituary

Rawshan Ara Begum, mother-in-law of Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman, died on Wednesday. She was 80.
2 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Prodip Kuar Das

Freedom fighter Prodip Kuar Das died at his home in Nazirpur upazila in Pirojpur yesterday. He was 59. He was an assistant teacher of
2 May 2015, 18:00 PM

Obituary

MA Mazid Khan, former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank, died from a cardiac arrest yesterday, aged 72, says a press release.
2 May 2015, 18:00 PM

‘Nobody cares about them'

Except for a handful few, most of the country's workers do not enjoy the rights as per the labour law. Even those who are claimed to
30 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Cry for food, shelter

Half a million tents are urgently needed for the huge number of people forced from their homes by Nepal's devastating earthquake, a
30 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Half of councillors freshers in Chittagong city

More than half of the new councillors, both in general wards and reserved seats for women, in Chittagong city have been elected for
30 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Tushar Guha

Today is the fourth death anniversary of Tushar Guha, photographer of Chittagong Metropolitan Sports Association.
30 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Death anniversary

Today is the 30th death anniversary of Sirajuddin Ahmad; founding president of Elite Paint Group, former president of Chittagong
30 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Observing May Day

AS we observe another May Day, we note with concern that despite tremendous economic progress over the last few decades...
30 April 2015, 18:00 PM

BNP abandoning election midway

BNP's decision to boycott the election halfway into the voting has surprised most observers.
30 April 2015, 18:00 PM

See no evil, hear no evil…..

IT is difficult to accept the comments of the CEC that the three city corporation elections were held in a fair and peaceful manner and that there were no threats or anomalies.
29 April 2015, 18:00 PM

Unprecedented attack on journalists

IT is disquieting to see that the media was conspicuously barred from properly covering the city polls.
29 April 2015, 18:00 PM