Unbound Mother: The making and remaking of Kaali in Bengal
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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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Ex-enclave people unlikely to be voters this year: EC
There is little chance for inhabitants of former 111 Indian enclaves to get enrolled as voters this year as the upazilas, union parishads and wards are yet to be demarcated incorporating the new areas.
22 October 2015
Form ninth wage board for journos
Leaders of a faction of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) demanded formation of ninth wage board and announcement of the New Year bonus for journalists and employees of the newspaper industry of the country.
22 October 2015
Fines for illegal parking, speeding to be hiked
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said fine for illegal parking and over speeding will be raised.
22 October 2015
They call off hunger strike
Fifty-four South Asians, including 35 Bangladeshis, seeking asylum in the US ended their six-day hunger strike at a detention centre in El Paso, Texas on October 20 following two days' negotiations between Dhaka and Washington, said diplomatic sources.
22 October 2015
Justice Manik comes under attack in London
Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury, a former Supreme Court judge, comes under attack in London, says his daughter Nadia Choudhury in her Facebook account.
22 October 2015
GPA-5 achiever dies in road crash after applying for higher study
Locals of Manikdi in Matikata blocked Kalshi New Road for about two hours up to 8:00pm yesterday after a student was killed in a road accident, said police.
21 October 2015
Govt hatching conspiracy to keep BNP leaders away from polls
Senior BNP leader Nazrul Islam Khan yesterday said though the government was conspiring to keep their top leaders away from future polls by “punishing them in false cases”, “big leaders were not necessary for winning any polls”.
21 October 2015
Accused Bikrom suspended by Gono Bishwabidyalay
The Gono Bishwabidyalay authorities yesterday suspended BBA first year student Bikrom Moni Das in an allegation of stabbing a girl to death at her school gate at Boardghar in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur on October 13.
21 October 2015
Khoka's health condition worsens in NY
The condition of BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka, who is being treated in the US for cancer in the rib, has been deteriorating since the last couple of months.
21 October 2015
Question leak protesters to hold solidarity rally again tomorrow
Agitating medical college admission seekers will hold a solidarity rally at the capital's Shahbagh at 4:00pm tomorrow, renewing the demand for rerun of the entrance test.
21 October 2015
Hindu demotes celebrate Kumari Puja across Bangladesh
Hindu devotees yesterday celebrated Kumari Puja, a major attraction of Maha Ashtami, amid fanfare at Ramkrishna Mission's puja mandaps across the country.
21 October 2015
Garment sector can create 54 lakh new jobs in Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s garment exports would more than double if the country could capture 20 percent of China’s share in a year, as China has been shifting its manufacturing base to other sectors, according to a World Bank study.
21 October 2015
Re-cross-exam of 11 Rajon murder witnesses starts
Counsel for the key accused Kamrul Islam yesterday completed cross-examinations of 11 witnesses in 13-year-old
21 October 2015
Smuggled gold, mobiles, cigarettes seized at Ctg airport
Customs intelligence officials seized around 0.5kg of gold, 42 mobile phone sets and 20 cartons of foreign cigarettes
21 October 2015
Five laundromats fined in capital
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined five washing factories Tk 27 lakh in the capital's Rupnagar for
21 October 2015
Prof Mahmuda hospitalised
Prof Beggzadi Mahmuda Nasir, founder principal of Central Women's College and founder vice chancellor of Central Women's University, is undergoing
21 October 2015
Toll collection of big bridges to go online Says Obaidul Quader
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said the government has taken an initiative to collect
21 October 2015
Cops still clueless
Two days have passed since a doctor of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) was stabbed in his house at Agrabad in the port city on Monday but law enforcement agencies are yet to trace any of the assailants and the motive of the attack.
21 October 2015
JS body for not renewing job contract of Biman MD Kyle Haywood
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry yesterday recommended that the government do not renew the job contract of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Managing Director Kyle Haywood because of his “poor performance”.
21 October 2015
2 killed in capital
The body of a man was found in a toilet of a hotel room while two youths were killed in separate incidents in the
21 October 2015