Unbound Mother: The making and remaking of Kaali in Bengal
30 September 2026
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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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Road repairs, garbage management key focus
Prioritising road development and repairs, garbage management and mosquito control, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon yesterday announced a Tk 2,085.36 crore budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year.
30 July 2015
Salahuddin's Case Chronology
Freedom fighters attacked him during the Liberation War in 1971, leaving him seriously injured, but he survived.
29 July 2015
Ordered by father, executed by son
It was a summer morning in April 1971.
29 July 2015
No probe report even after 2yrs
Even after two years into Jubo League leader Milky's murder, the investigators could not find out yet the masterminds behind the killing in Dhaka, leaving the family in utter despair and insecurity.
29 July 2015
Don't discuss minimum marriageable age much
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki yesterday urged people not to discuss much the minimum marriageable age of females as stated in the draft Child Marriage Restraint Act because it may deepen the confusion over the issue.
28 July 2015
Indian high commission opens condolence book on APJA Kalam
The High Commission of India (HCI) will open a condolence book for today and tomorrow in memory of former Indian president Dr APJ
28 July 2015
One staff suspended, 13 transferred
One staff at government orphanage, Barisal Shishu Paribar, has been suspended and 13 others have been transferred after the committee
28 July 2015
Inadequate relief in Ctg district
Local public representatives of flood-affected areas in Chittagong have been struggling to provide aid to the victims as they have
28 July 2015
Physicians worried over its low weight
The authorities of Dhaka Medical College Hospital have formed an eight-member medical board to properly treat the newborn who
28 July 2015
Rain, floods damage roads in Bangladesh
The receding flood water in Bandarban has badly damaged many roads, cutting off road communications between the town and several tourist destinations in the hill district in the last three days.
28 July 2015
Another PW links them to Netrakona killing
Another prosecution witness yesterday linked alleged Razakars Obaidul Haque Taher and Ataur Rahman Nani in the killing of one Dabir
28 July 2015
Rainfall leaves 162km Ctg city road battered
Over 162km of road in Chittagong city have been damaged by the incessant rain and consequent waterlogging.
28 July 2015
9.4m migrants send back $15b
A total of 9.4 million Bangladeshi migrants are toiling in various parts of the globe and sending their hard-earned money back home.
28 July 2015
Flood tightens grip on several districts of Bangladesh
Five more people, including three women and a kid, were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Cox's Bazar town early yesterday, barely a month after five died in landslides in the district.
27 July 2015
Laid off staff of mushroom centre besiege office for reinstatement
Around hundred employees of the National Mushroom Development and Extension Centre in Savar, outside the capital, yesterday laid siege to the office building demanding their jobs back.
27 July 2015
'Your dreams will be Bangladesh's dream'
Famed former Indian president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, who had travelled frequently within his country and outside to inspire the youth, also mesmerised students in Dhaka with his captivating speech.
27 July 2015
DNA profiling ends two families' squabble
A woman whose body was found in an Uttara gutter by police on June 25 was identified by National Forensic DNA Profiling Laboratory of
27 July 2015
No agent for Indian visa: Embassy
The Indian High Commission in Dhaka has advised all to inform the Bangladesh law enforcement authorities for taking legal actions
27 July 2015
SCBA forms sub-committees to identify fraudsters on it premises
The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) yesterday formed three separate sub-committees to identify impersonators on its premises, and take action against them and bar their access to the association.
27 July 2015
40,000 marooned as floods hit different districts in Bangladesh
Rain and onrush of water from upstream caused the flooding to worsen in the hilly district of Bandarban, and Feni and Cox's Bazar yesterday.
This is the second time floods have affected these places this year.
Around 40,000 people in Bandarban were marooned and road communications between the district and other parts of the country remained snapped for the second consecutive day yesterday, reports our correspondent there citing local public representatives.
26 July 2015