UNEQUAL CITY

Urban planners need to see the disenfranchised classes not as the poor but as fellow human beings who deserve, like anybody else, basic access to all urban amenities and social institutions.
10 March 2017, 18:00 PM

A Quiet Courage

Principal Protiva Mutsuddy, a great language movement veteran was born at a time while her motherland was under
3 March 2017, 18:00 PM

The science fiction about women

I am at a chemistry lab at Dhaka University where no girl is crying or talking about love. With a steely resolve and
17 February 2017, 18:00 PM

An oasis in a volatile region

The Arab Spring that started with the self immolation of fruit vendor Mohamad Bouazizi in the Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid in December 2010 had all the markings of a people's revolution breaking out against long running autocratic governments, especially in North Africa and the Middle East.
10 February 2017, 18:00 PM

We shall overcome

While the public often views the Liberation War and the Language Movement as the apex of protest music in Bangladesh the use of
3 February 2017, 18:00 PM

Untangling memory, taking a stand

Yesterday was the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. But what does it mean to remember the Holocaust? It cannot be only to speak of the details of the gruesome barbarity that engulfed a continent in the last century through voyeuristic descriptions of horror. Neither should one speak of the death of six million in the contextual realms of history; it cannot be a matter of numbers. Does one, as the student from Alan Bennet's History Boys, simply gloss over the matter with a pithy “Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”?
27 January 2017, 18:00 PM

Michael Madhusudan Dutt: A Birthday Tribute

We celebrate Michael Madhusudan Dutt's birthday on 25 January, but we cannot be certain that this is absolutely accurate, just as we
20 January 2017, 18:00 PM

The poet of physical rhymes

With stretching arms, pointed toes and emotive facial expressions, dance speaks of the language of human emotions as the music
6 January 2017, 18:00 PM

Fog disrupts Shimulia-Kawrakandi ferry service

Ferry services on Shimulia-Kawrakandi route in the Padma river were disrupted following dense fog for around six hours.
31 December 2016, 04:50 AM

Soolteen Sahib of Dhaka

Swinton on his return to Britain in 1766, writes Taifoor, had taken a certain Mirza Sheikh Itesamuddin of Nadia, Bengal, along with
30 December 2016, 18:00 PM

98 Hindus killed in 2016: BJHM

At least 98 people of Hindu community are reportedly killed and 357 others are attacked physically till December 29 this year, Bangladesh Jatiyo Hindu Mohajote (BJHM) claims.
30 December 2016, 10:29 AM

Fog disrupts ferry services on two Padma routes

Ferry service on Paturia-Daulatdia and Shimulia-Kawrakandi routes remained suspended for hours due to dense fog
29 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Rohingya crisis: Nobel laureates, global leaders write open letter to UNSC

Twenty-three Nobel laureates and global leaders urge the UN Security Council members to urgently put the Rohingya issue on its agenda and call upon the UN secretary-general to visit Myanmar as a priority.
29 December 2016, 15:24 PM

Migrants rise, remittance declines: 2016 report

Overseas employment for Bangladeshi workers increased by 35 percent in 2016, but in comparison, the total remittance sent in by them declined by 11 percent, a new report says.
28 December 2016, 13:12 PM

People suffer as launch ghat without gangway

Thousands of people are suffering due to lack of a gangway to connect with the pontoon at Habibpur launch
27 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Fog halts ferry movement in Padma

Movement of water transport on Shimulia-Kawrakandi and Chandpur-Shariatpur routes in Munshiganj and Chandpur
27 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Protest against threat to kill Sylhet Bapa leader

Speakers at a rally in Habiganj town yesterday protested the threat to kill Abdul Karim Kim, general secretary of
27 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Fellows come to aid of tortured FF

Over a hundred freedom fighters of Lalmonirhat's Hatibandha upazila came together yesterday to help their injured
27 December 2016, 18:00 PM

Ferries at Shimulia-Kawrakandi, Chandpur-Shariatpur routes halted

Water transport movement on Shimulia-Kawrakandi and Chandpur-Shariatpur routes in Munshiganj and Chandpur districts remain suspended due to dense fog.
27 December 2016, 05:05 AM

Drizzle with cold wave disrupts life

Drizzles along with cold wave from Sunday midnight has disrupted normal life in Thakurgaon and Panchagarh districts, forcing people to stay indoors and hampering business and official activities.
26 December 2016, 18:00 PM