Paradise lost and found: Rediscovering early modern Bengal
1 October 2026
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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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Rejoinder, our reply
Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) yesterday issued a rejoinder against a news headlined “Consultant set to become builder” published in The Daily Star Tuesday.
27 March 2015
Why women freedom fighters are missing from Bangladesh's Liberation War films
The overall theoretical framework of covering war in mass media gives evidence that to justify war the political leadership uses fragile
27 March 2015
Militants spreading wings
Amid a slack monitoring in recent months, the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh and a few other militant outfits have become active
27 March 2015
Salahuddin not under arrest: IGP
BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed's wife yesterday again sought the prime minister's intervention in tracing him while Inspector General of
27 March 2015
Blame game lets illegal parking thrive in Dhaka
While illegal parking continues causing traffic chaos in the capital, the two city corporations and Dhaka Metropolitan Police are
26 March 2015
The War of Liberation and Maulana Bhashani
It was late afternoon of 25th March. Professor Govinda Chandra Dev, along with a junior colleague of his from the philosophy department, was crossing the road near TSC of the University of Dhaka to go to Ramna Race Course for his regular stroll.
25 March 2015
A note from Simon Dring
It was at this hour 44 years ago today that the first Pakistani army units began moving into Dhaka - and a night of unimaginable horror
25 March 2015
No end to killings
Both of them were landless. One of them, Khorshed Alam, was a day labourer and the other, Yadul Mollah, a truck helper. But they had
25 March 2015
Adivasis again demand relocation on eve of Independence Day
“I want my daughter to grow up in my own home. I will not accept any (compensation) offer. Nothing is as good as returning home,”
25 March 2015
Tax association officials protest attack on NBR member
Members of BCS Customs and Vat Association and BCS Taxation Association protested the attack on Barrister Jahangir Hossain, National
25 March 2015
Freed Bangladeshis return to employer
2 Bangladeshi workers, freed by Libyan militants yesterday, will be taken to Tripoli from Sirte Hospital where they are staying now
25 March 2015
2 more arson victims die at DMCH
Two more arson victims, who suffered severe burns in separate firebomb attacks in Chandpur and Magura, die at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital
25 March 2015
Boy dies, 3 of family fall ill after eating puffer fish
A boy died and three of his family members fell ill after eating puffer fishes during their lunch in the capital's Hazaribagh yesterday.
24 March 2015
2 Bangladeshis freed in Libya
Two Bangladeshi migrant workers, abducted by unknown militants from a Libyan oil field on March 6, were freed yesterday.
24 March 2015
19 passport 'brokers' jailed
A mobile court backed by Rapid Action Battalion convicted 20 illegal passport brokers in the capital yesterday.
24 March 2015
Workers torch bus for injuring fellows
Garment workers yesterday torched a bus which hit two of their fellow workers on Dhaka-Tangail highway at Ziranibazar in Ashulia,
24 March 2015
Nur Hossain's aide remanded
A Narayanganj court yesterday granted a seven-day remand for Raham Ali, an accomplice of Nur Hossain, the prime accused of the
24 March 2015
400 illegal structures demolished
Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday demolished around 400 illegal structures on DCC market premises at Gulshan-2 and
24 March 2015
Why cops shouldn't be punished?
The High Court yesterday asked the government and the police to show cause in two weeks as to why the law enforcers responsible
24 March 2015
Buet teacher questioned over Avijit murder
Detectives question Farseem Mannan Mohammedy, an associate professor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet), in connection with the killing of blogger-writer Avijit Roy
24 March 2015