Do great leaders make history, or does history make them?
29 September 2026
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Poison and cremation: A forensic history of colonial Bengal
28 September 2026
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Partition, Bor Porong and the Chakmas’ unfinished struggle for belonging
27 September 2026
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The young radicals who challenged 19th-century Bengal
24 September 2026
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More men are cooking. But is patriarchy leaving the kitchen?
23 September 2026
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Everyday secularism and the Bangladesh we rarely talk about
22 September 2026
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Reading Sarat Chandra at 150, with empathy
21 September 2026
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Who really owned Britain’s royal jewels?
19 September 2026
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The 25,000-year history of betel nut chewing
17 September 2026
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The world map we know is distorted. Why does it matter?
15 September 2026
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DEPZ factory shuts sine die over workers' demand for benefits
The management of an Indian owned garment factory in Dhaka Export Processing Zone (DEPZ), on the outskirts of the capital shut down the factory for an unidentified period yesterday following workers demonstration for service benefit.
8 November 2015
Textile engineers demand arrest of two Noman Group officials
Textile engineers will observe a daylong work stoppage at all garment factories on Sunday if the managing director and the director of Noman Group, who allegedly beat up their fellow engineer, were not arrested by Thursday.
8 November 2015
Clear Tejgaon terminal by Nov 27
Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq issued a November 27 ultimatum to the truck owners to clear the illegal infrastructures from Tejgaon terminal to increase parking space to reduce traffic congestion of the area.
8 November 2015
Hasina sees local, foreign conspiracy
Denying the existence of Islamic State in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said a local and foreign conspiracy is afoot to establish that cohorts of IS are active in the country.
8 November 2015
Four to die for killing Rajon
Rajon and Rakib. The teen boys, both aged 13, from Sylhet and Khulna were killed by some brutes in July and August. The barbaric murders shook the nation to its core and stirred massive outcries in the social and mainstream media. Yesterday, two courts in the two districts sentenced six people to death for their murders.
A Sylhet court yesterday handed down death penalty to four people for the brutal killing of 13-year-old Rajon that stirred a huge outcry all over the country.
8 November 2015
Massive drives conducted by Ctg cops, 481 arrested
As a part of countrywide drives, police arrested 481 persons, including 24 Jamaat-Shibir activists, in Chittagong district early yesterday.
7 November 2015
16 Ctg citizens worried over delay in bringing attackers to book
Sixteen eminent citizens in Chittagong yesterday expressed grave concern over the murder of a publisher, and attack
7 November 2015
It's hope they get
She cannot see the colours and wonders of the world, yet she never stopped dreaming, and yesterday she found a
7 November 2015
Four Pakistanis among them
Detectives claimed to have arrested seven Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members, including four Pakistanis, in the capital's airport area on Friday night.
7 November 2015
Wang Ming still unconscious, Lily recovering
In development of the “burglary gone wrong” attack on Taiwanese couple in Dhaka, the man Wang Ming Chee is still unconscious at the hospital.
7 November 2015
14kg gold seized at Dhaka airport
Customs officials seize 120 gold bars weighing around 14 kilogrammes from under a seat in a flight at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
6 November 2015
Kids under 5 at more risk of pneumonia
Children, under the age of five, exposed to arsenic have two-times higher the risk of developing pneumonia than children not exposed, said a new study.
Scientists arrived at this conclusion after looking at arsenic concentration in urine samples of 153 children aged between one month to five years with severe and very severe pneumonia, said a statement of icddr,b.
5 November 2015
Field-level officials urged to post positive aspects of govt on Facebook
The cabinet division has advised field-level public servants to share on Facebook items on invention and showcasing positive aspects of the government instead of irrelevant and personal matters.
5 November 2015
Control of madrasa education urgent
Adopting the constitution of 1972, banning and trying Jamaat-e-Islami for war crimes in 1971 and enforcing control over madrasa education's curriculum are required to stop the current onslaught on fee thinking by fundamentalist, terrorist forces, speakers told a discussion yesterday.
4 November 2015
Dog squad deployed at Sylhet airport
After Dhaka and Chittagong airports, a dog squad was stationed at Osmani International Airport in Sylhet yesterday to
4 November 2015
Two selected from Barisal region
Two women won the Barisal regional round of Rupchanda-The Daily Star Super Chef-2016 held at Barisal Club
4 November 2015
Netherlands to help fight floods in Bangladesh
Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Environment Melanie Schultz van Haegen yesterday assured Bangladesh of assisting in the implementation of its Delta Plan 2100.
4 November 2015
Investment in nutrition to yield 16-fold return
Leading nutritionists and food experts yesterday suggested investing more in nutrition, saying it could accelerate productivity and break the cycle of poverty in Bangladesh.
4 November 2015
Family of slain Bangladeshi publisher Dipan pleads for a little privacy
Razia Rahman, wife of slain publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan, broke down in tears as soon as bereaved father Prof Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq entered her flat Tuesday afternoon.
4 November 2015
Most drivers unwilling to go to desired destinations
Most of the drivers of CNG-run auto-rickshaws in the capital refuse to go to desired destinations of passengers,
3 November 2015