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19 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh
Rubaiya Murshed’s ‘Nobody’s Children’: UPL publishes book on struggles of street children
2 July 2022, 13:13 PM
Books & Literature
‘Enough with mere formalities’
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh
What steps taken for their birth certificates?
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh
‘Corruption, anarchy the new norm’
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Politics
Dengue cases shot up in June
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Disease
So far so good
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh
Latifur Rahman’s 2nd death anniv today
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Obituary
ACC looking into procurement anomalies at BR
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Crime & Justice
Dhaka Airport: Passenger leaves behind Saudi riyal worth Tk 6cr
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Crime & Justice
Transport leaders meet home boss over RTA
Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation holds a meeting with Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to meet their demands of bringing amendment to the Road Transport Act-2018.
23 November 2019, 13:14 PM
Parash chairman, Nikhil gen secy of Jubo League
Sheikh Fazle Shams Parash has been made new chairman of Jubo League, youth wing of Awami League, for the next three years.
23 November 2019, 10:13 AM
4.64kg gold recovered from Biman flight at Dhaka airport
A preventive team of Dhaka Customs House recovers 4.64 kilogrames of gold worth Tk 2.32 crore from an incoming flight of Bangladesh Biman from Dubai at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.
23 November 2019, 09:00 AM
Drives to continue; no offender to be spared: PM
Reaffirming that the ongoing drives against corruption, militancy and drug will continue, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she will not spare anyone, no matter who the offender is.
23 November 2019, 05:36 AM
PM returns home from Kolkata
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina returns home from Kolkata after wrapping up her daylong official visit to India.
22 November 2019, 19:04 PM
Moqbul Hossain’s death anniv
Today is the 35th death anniversary of Moqbul Hossain, former deputy director of Bangladesh Power Development Board, says a press release.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Territorial Behaviour
During my trip to Brazil last year, I travelled on a boat that traversed the massive Paraguay river - in the wetland called Pantanal - looking for Jaguars.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
E-awareness Olympiad launched
With the aim to increase cyber awareness among the youth, e-awareness Olympiad “Cyber Champ” was launched in the capital yesterday.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
A Stark Contrast: Coping with patients five times its capacity
Sitting on the floor by her son, Nurunnahar gently moves Ibrahim’s head upwards and helps him drink water.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
AL expels reserved seat MP Bubly
Tamanna Nusrat Bubly, a member of parliament from reserved seat-24, who had made headlines for cheating in a degree test, was expelled yesterday by Awami League.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
A Stark Contrast: Well-equipped, yet not fully functional in a year
With its clean and calm ambience, the institute looks like a privately-run one, well-equipped to provide treatment to patients.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Three killed in road accidents
A union parishad (UP) secretary was killed after a covered van hit his motorbike at Haldiapukuri village in Boda upazila of Panchagarh on Thursday night.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
AL govt autocratic like Ershad, Ayub: BNP
Terming the government fascist, BNP yesterday said the same autocratic rule prevailed during Ershad and Ayub Khan regimes.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
No fees for poor, teachers, freedom fighters... poets!
If you visit Dr Ganapati Aditya’s chamber in Mymensingh, you will see a notice hanging outside that says he will provide free treatment to his teachers, freedom fighters and their family members, impoverished people, and poets.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Social media to come under purview of law
The government is working towards bringing social media under the purview of law, said Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud at a roundtable yesterday.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Community clinic services in Bangladesh exemplary for developing countries: expert
Community clinics are now serving 50 million rural people of the country, which is “indeed exemplary for other developing countries”, an eminent surgeon and public health professional said yesterday.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
‘Myanmar brought it upon itself’
A human rights defender from Myanmar yesterday said recent legal steps against his country with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Rohingya issue were something the country’s regime “brought upon itself”.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Gyantapas Lecture: Prof Nazrul Islam to speak on urbanisation
Prof Nazrul Islam, honorary chairman of Centre for Urban Studies (CUS) and former chairman of University Grants Commission, will deliver a lecture on “Urbanisation in Bangladesh: Past, Present and Future” at 4pm today, at the Muzaffar Ahmed Chowdhury Auditorium of Dhaka University’s Social Sciences Faculty.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
Ban Ki-moon in city
Former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon arrived in city last night on a brief visit, his second to Bangladesh this year, after leaving the United Nations.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM
All fun and games in the middle of the road
Finding an open space for children to play in Dhaka is an arduous task. Deprived of playgrounds, young ones living in the city often find themselves too busy with electronics, to the point that it raises concerns for their health.
22 November 2019, 18:00 PM