Salinity’s silent intrusion
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Our youth need better vocational education
28 July 2026, 13:00 PM
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Will there be no end to this farce?
27 July 2026, 12:00 PM
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Overhaul Met Office’s warning system
26 July 2026, 12:00 PM
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An exit that ends uncertainty
25 July 2026, 19:02 PM
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Affordable dialysis must not be delayed any longer
25 July 2026, 12:00 PM
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Ensure food security for all
24 July 2026, 20:10 PM
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Hold those liable for Milestone tragedy
21 July 2026, 18:58 PM
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Why is the measles response still falling short?
23 July 2026, 12:00 PM
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A welcome development, but more ground to cover
24 July 2026, 11:00 AM
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Sangram editor, 3 others exonerated from contempt proceedings
A tribunal in Dhaka exonerates editor of Bangla daily Sangram and three others from contempt proceedings after they apologised unconditionally for publishing report and making comments about a sub-judice matter on war crimes case trial
12 March 2015, 07:13 AM
'Clean Bangladesh' campaign starts
The Art of Living Foundation has launched its campaign "Clean Bangladesh" in the country.
11 March 2015, 18:55 PM
Bangladeshi workers taken hostage
ANOWAR Hossain and Helal Uddin are two Bangladeshis among other foreign nationals who have been taken hostage by the Islamic State or some other militia group in Libya.
11 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Bonya won't remain silent
Rafida Ahmed Bonya, the widow of writer-blogger Avijit Roy, has said she will continue to speak for promoting science and secularism for which
11 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Anxiety grips victim families
Desperate to know his abducted father's whereabouts in Libya, Mohammad Rubel started calling him since yesterday morning.
11 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Obituary
Md Barkat Ullah, a teacher, died in his home in Manikganj town yesterday. He was 75.
11 March 2015, 18:00 PM
ERD, FAO celebrate Women's Day
The Economic Relations Division (ERD) of finance ministry, in association with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), has celebrated International Women's Day-2015 for the first time, said a press release.
11 March 2015, 18:00 PM
A milestone in cancer treatment
IT is heartening to see that the country's first ever Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) Unit has successfully restored all its twelve blood cancer patients to health in the last one year.
11 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Top Quote!
“While Avijit and I were being ruthlessly attacked, the local police stood close by and did not act.”
10 March 2015, 23:10 PM
Women work unpaid five hours more than men
Although men and women get the same amount of time for rest and sleep, women have to spend six hours for unpaid care work for their families while men do them for an hour only, found a research conducted in North Bengal.
10 March 2015, 18:33 PM
News in Brief
President Abdul Hamid underwent medical checkup in two London hospitals on Monday.
10 March 2015, 18:24 PM
A Break in hartal for cricket?
THE BNP- led 20 party alliance's announcement of a 12 hour 'break' in hartal to allow for people to celebrate the Bangladesh Cricket team's victory over England for the World Cup quarterfinals is a contrived attempt to gain public sympathy.
10 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Torching land offices
WE cannot but deplore in the strongest terms the senseless acts of vandalism that have plagued the country in the last two months, the latest victim of which, it seems, has become the land record offices across a big swathe of the country.
10 March 2015, 18:00 PM
The nifty snatcher and his evening mission
Every mobile phone owner, more or less, experiences the onset of panic and despair the moment he realises his phone is missing. But what happened to me is more than that when I suddenly saw my mobile phone gone in the blink of an eye.
10 March 2015, 13:16 PM
Co-creator of 'The Simpsons' dies
Sam Simon, the co-creator of the hit animated show, The Simpsons, dies of colon cancer
10 March 2015, 05:14 AM
UN Women launches HeForShe campaign
UN Women yesterday launched its global campaign HeForShe in Bangladesh with nine male leaders committing to support and establish gender equality in their respective sectors.
9 March 2015, 21:09 PM
Well done Bangladesh!
CRICKET in Bangladesh has indeed come of age. Gone are the days when Bangladesh buckled at the crunch time, miserably failing to live up to the expectations of its millions of fans who stay glued to the television to get a chance of seeing their team play well.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Early alert on swine flu
WITH the deadly H1N1 virus claiming 1,300 lives in India over the last two months alone, we are reassured by the government's proactive steps to minimise the possibility of a similar outbreak of swine flu in Bangladesh.
9 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Frankie the dog ‘sniffs out cancer’
Frankie, the German shepherd dog is used to sniff out thyroid cancer in people who have not yet been diagnosed
9 March 2015, 05:30 AM
Baby survives 14 hours in Utah River
A baby girl is found alive in a car more than 14 hours after the vehicle plunged into a river in Utah
9 March 2015, 05:22 AM