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Front Page

Aedes Breeding: Terminals still a hotspot

Major terminals in the capital remain ripe for Aedes mosquito...
Parents, two siblings killed in road crash

Five of a family from Netrakona’s Durgapur upazila lost their lives...
65 Bangladeshi, Lankan migrants found in Mexico

Mexican authorities say federal police found 65 severely dehydrated...
Kashmir: 251 noted citizens slate curb on civil liberty

As many as 251 eminent personalities from South Asia, Europe and...

High growth, fewer jobs

Bangladesh’s tremendous economic growth has been unable to create...
Parties should refrain from unilateral action

UN Security Council members believe India and Pakistan should...
JMB men on the loose a big concern

Many of the JMB men convicted in the August 17 series bomb blast...
Massive fire razes slum in Mirpur

A massive fire broke out at a slum in Chalantika area of the...

Back Page

Tanners to start buying rawhide from today

Tanners will start buying rawhide from merchants today amid a slump...
Gaibandha cop sued over rape of college girl

A police constable has been sued on charge of raping his girlfriend...
Public exam schedules to get shorter

Public examinations will now take less time than before as the...
Trump proposes mental asylums, but silent on gun laws

More mental hospitals are needed to take potential mass killers off...
Zimbabwe police break up protests after court ban

Riot police in Zimbabwe yesterday fired teargas and beat...
Detained Nigerian cleric leaves Indian hospital

Nigerian Shia leader Ibrahim Zakzaky -- whose poor health in...

Hasina vows to build hunger-free ‘Sonar Bangla’

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the debt of Bangabandhu...
Novelist Rizia Rahman passes away

Noted novelist Rizia Rahman died at a hospital in the city...
Najib Razak faces trial over 1MDB

Malaysia’s former prime minister, Najib Razak, on Monday faces the...
Italian political standoff keeps rescued migrants stranded at sea

A charity rescue ship carrying 134 migrants, mostly Africans,...
Sudan to launch historic transition to civilian rule

Sudan’s military rulers and protest leaders are scheduled to sign a...
Lebanon says US mediation on Israel border issue viable

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Thursday that he is open...

Bhola gangrape victim a little better

Condition of the sixth grader gangraped in Bhola on August 11 has...
Rohingya Children: Unicef seeks urgent investment in edn

The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has called for urgent...
Trump wants US to buy Greenland

President Donald Trump is asking advisers if it is possible for the...
Police rescue child who was sold after kidnap

Police on Thursday rescued a child -- who had been abducted and...
Iran must free women held over veil protests: UN experts

A group of UN human rights experts yesterday called for the...
Greek fire crews make progress on island blaze

Firefighters in Greece yesterday made progress against a four-day...

Sports

Barca agree to loan Coutinho to Bayern

Barcelona's record signing Philippe Coutinho is set to move to...
Watling half-century puts Kiwis in front

A fighting half-century by wicketkeeper-batsman B.J. Watling helped...
Archer strikes on debut as Aus stumble

England fast bowler Jofra Archer marked his Test debut with a...
City seek Spurs revenge

Manchester City will seek revenge against Tottenham on Saturday for...
Zidane now counting on Bale

Zinedine Zidane has admitted Gareth Bale is back in his plans ahead...

Youths preferred in Jamie Day’s squad

Bangladesh Football Federation yesterday named a 25-member...
India reappoint Shastri

Former Indian cricketer Ravi Shastri has been reappointed as head...
April 25 SC to arrive today

North Korean league champions April 25 SC will arrive in Dhaka...
Keeper headache for Klopp

Liverpool goalkeeper Adrian faces a late fitness test to see if he...
Hazard to miss opener against Celta

Eden Hazard will miss the start of the season after sustaining a...

‘Rookies need more work’

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) selectors have been often...
What it means for the Tigers

Ravi Shastri’s reappointment to the hot seat of Indian cricket...
Atletico dreaming of glory again

Atletico Madrid began the summer by losing six of their best...
Alaba calls for more Bayern transfers

David Alaba became the latest Bayern Munich star to urge the club...
Morocco appoint Halilhodzic

Former Japan boss Vahid Halilhodzic was named as the new coach of...

Editorial

School meals can make a big difference

We laud the government’s plan to provide daily meals for all 1.73...

Forests and wildlife in danger

A major report, “Below the Canopy”, jointly written by the...

Opinion

Redefining maleness in a man’s world

The myriad stories of sexual assault that flood my Facebook feed...
The invisible side of freelancing

To many of us, freelancing is the ideal income opportunity: with no...

If It Ain’t Broke…

If anyone on board is getting any relief, well, relatively speaking...

Toni Morrison and Trump

The passing away of Toni Morrison shook up America, well as it should.

Letters

Agartala Airport expanding into Bangladesh

India has proposed to upgrade and expand its Agartala Airport into...

City

Teenage rickshaw-puller killed in Sylhet, 2 arrested

Police yesterday recovered the body of a teenage rickshaw-puller...
Bangabandhu’s killer Rashed Chowdhury to be brought back

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said Rashed Chowdhury, a fugitive...
Poet Shamsur Rahman’s 13th death anniversary today

The 13th death anniversary of renowned poet Shamsur Rahman will be...
Dhaka Today

Organiser: United Nations Youth & Students Association Bangladesh
Woman crushed under train in Jashore

A woman was crushed under the wheels of a running train at Jashore...
Child’s body recovered from Jamuna river

Fire service recovered the body of a five-year-old girl from Jamuna...

The Pied Bushchat

I first met her on Christmas Day a few years ago. In the late...
Medical waste dumped irresponsibly

Where there are sources that produce medical waste, there should...
A friend of the world

Diplomats at a discussion in UN Headquarters recalled the...
Dhaka, Delhi ties reached a new height

The friendly ties between Bangladesh and India have grown stronger...
Woman’s hanging body recovered from home

Hanging body of a housewife was recovered from port city’s...

‘The most alone of poets’

“I fell in love with how modern Jibanananda Das’ work was, and how...
Passengers face hassles at Barishal Launch Terminal

Heavy rush of passengers returning to the capital after Eid...
BNP accuses govt of destroying leather industry

BNP yesterday alleged that the government has destroyed the leather...
House help dies after falling from building

A domestic worker died after falling from a building in the capital...
Anti-liberation forces killed Bangabandhu

The anti-liberation forces assassinated Father of the Nation...

World

Pakistan launches crackdown

Pakistan government has launched a crackdown on sale of Indian...
Released tanker poised to set sail

An Iranian tanker seized by Gibraltar last month is preparing to...
Man executed by electric chair in US

A man put to death in the US state of Tennessee on Thursday for...
US lawmaker Tlaib scraps West Bank trip over Israeli demands

Palestinian-American lawmaker Rashida Tlaib yesterday turned down...
Pacific nations chide Australia

Small Pacific islands nations at risk from rising sea levels...
Sudan allows Al-Jazeera to reopen office

Sudan has allowed Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera to reopen its...

N Korea fires missiles

North Korea launched at least two short-range ballistic missiles...
17 missing in SW China landslide

More than a dozen workers remained missing yesterday after a...
President Widodo proposes to move capital to Borneo

Time is running out for Jakarta. One of the fastest-sinking cities...
17 seamen kidnapped off Cameroon

Nine Chinese and eight Ukrainian seamen were abducted on Thursday...
Stories of a birth and a death

Around the time Mohammad Sikander Bhat lay dying at home in Indian...
Top army official sacked for sexual harassment

A major general serving in Assam Rifles in the north east of India...

‘Won’t repeat’ Tiananmen

Chinese state media yesterday vowed there “won’t be a repeat” of...
Australian tourist shot dead in NZ

New Zealand police launched a manhunt for an armed suspect...
Boost for UK PM Johnson

President Donald Trump on Thursday again signalled his desire for...
4 killed in blast at Pak mosque

A blast at a mosque in southwest Pakistan yesterday killed four...
Modi’s fascist tactics will fail miserably

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan yesterday said that the Indian...
FMs of China, Japan, S Korea to hold talks

Top diplomats of South Korea and Japan plan to meet their Chinese...

Arts & Entertainment

Many happy returns Murtaja Baseer and Monirul Islam!

Today marks the 88th birthday of the multifarious genius Murtaja...
Streaming platforms redefining the entertainment industry

In the last decade, we have seen a paradigm shift in the...

National Mourning Day observed in Mymensingh

Marking National Mourning Day 2019, a painting competition for...
National Museum hosts seminar on Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

The Bangladesh National Museum arranged a seminar based on...

Exciting Eid ul Adha specials on television

With multiple channels airing exciting programmes throughout the...
Towfique Ahmed: An ode to Bangla rap

Long before he garnered popularity as one of the pioneers of Bangla...