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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Passengers speak up against harassment at public hearing
College student Zunayed Ahmad used to travel by bus from Mirpur-10 to Farmgate for Tk 10-12. But for the last couple of days, he was
11 October 2015
Prisoner dies at Rajshahi jail
An elderly prisoner, sentenced to life-term imprisonment in a murder case, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital yesterday.
10 October 2015
Who said what after the killings
Investigators have yet to make any headway in the probe into the recent killings of two foreigners in Bangladesh. Police officials refrain
10 October 2015
Work for entertainment village starts next March
Two international and two local companies have primarily qualified to set up the first ever exclusive tourism resort and entertainment
10 October 2015
Medical question leak: Protestors call for independent probe
Protestors demand for an independent probe into allegations of question leak that marred this year’s medical and dental admission tests.
10 October 2015
Abdul Karim's discoveries - Origins of modernity in Bengali literature
Abdul Karim discovered that there existed also Muslim writers of quality in Bengali literature and, what's more, their quantity also is far from negligible. In diction their works, for instance, those of the 17th century lauraetes Kazi Daulat (1600-1638) or Syed Alaol (1607-1680) are no less 'elevated and dignified,' i.e., Sanskritized in measure than Bharatchandra Ray's (1712-1760) or Madhusudan Datta's (1824-1873) of later fame.
9 October 2015
Plan for partisan polls a conspiracy
The plan to make the local government elections partisan is a strategy to send BNP's demand for a fresh national
9 October 2015
UK heightens alert, fears further attack on westerners in Bangladesh
The United Kingdom apprehends more attacks on westerners in Bangladesh and those could be indiscriminate.
9 October 2015
Tunisia activists win Nobel Peace Prize in boost to fledgling democracy
Tunisian civil society groups won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for helping to create the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring, at a time when the country is under threat from jihadist violence.
9 October 2015
Probe medical admission test question leak
Academics, intellectuals, and cultural activists yesterday joined the cause of medical college hopefuls and called for
9 October 2015
Mojaheed's family meets him in jail
Condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed's wife Tamanna-E-Jahan hoped that the authorities concerned of the state including the president, prime minister, chief justice will play roles in ensuring justice for her husband in review of the Supreme Court ruling that upheld his death penalty.
9 October 2015
UK fears fresh attacks on westerners
The United Kingdom is apprehensive about more attacks on westerners in Bangladesh, saying those could be indiscriminate.
9 October 2015
Belarusian writer Alexievich wins Nobel Literature Prize
Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize yesterday, honoured for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime.
8 October 2015
Barisal hospital interns abstain from work for 4hr after attack
Attendants attacked interns of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barisal yesterday following the death of a
8 October 2015
Family to meet Mojaheed at Dhaka Central Jail today
Family members of condemned war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed will meet him at Dhaka Central Jail today.
8 October 2015
Int'l standard education must for development
Global Study, an education consultancy firm in Dhaka, celebrated its 11th founding anniversary in the capital's The
8 October 2015
Mawna OC accused of beating driver
A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was hospitalised yesterday after the Mawna Highway Police Station o%cer-in-charge
7 October 2015
Rights bodies blame impunity, violent political climate
Lack of rule of law, failure to mete out exemplary punishment and current practice of cadre-based politics which requires demonstration of power are some of the main causes for increasing and brutish violence against children.
7 October 2015
Train delayed for 4 hours as driver sleeps in Bangladesh
What happens when a train driver is fatigued, having worked late into the night, and has a train to drive in the morning?
7 October 2015
70 freed from Bangladesh’s jail on fake bail in 5 months
A temporary staff at a Dhaka court sent fake bail orders to Dhaka Central Jail authorities for five months till June to have released at least 70 accused in cases over illegal trade of drugs, and arms and ammunition.
7 October 2015