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Front Page

Democracy has prevailed

Joe Biden yesterday became the 46th president of the United States...
Gift from India: 20 lakh vaccine doses arrive today

India’s gift of 20 lakh doses of Covishield is likely to arrive in...
Project director hardly at the site

In 2019, the government took up a project to construct the first...
BCL men to get top priority for univ jobs

Rajshahi University Vice-Chancellor Prof M Abdus Sobhan has ...

Priority List for Vaccine: Include those aged 50 and above: experts

Experts have stressed the need for including all aged 50 and above...
Labour Market: Govt now looking for alternatives

Mentioning that the employment situation in different countries,...
Tigers return in style

Bangladesh were hardly tested upon their return to international...
Misbehaviour with Magistrate: Kushtia SP tarnished image of judiciary

The High Court yesterday observed that the superintendent of police...

Back Page

Rohingya Repatriation: China’s role as mediator very crucial

China’s role in Rohingya repatriation is turning out to be a...
Refugee Camp: 5 Rohingyas held with firearms

Members of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) detained five Rohingya men...
Prowling at night to rob ride-seekers

Vegetable traders -- Apan Mia and Nazrul Islam -- were waiting near...
8 more die, 656 infected with Covid in a day

Bangladesh saw a daily infection rate of 4.26 percent with 656 new...

Stolen 500-year-old Leonardo da Vinci copy found in Italy

Italian police have found a 500-year-old copy of Leonardo da Vinci...
Road crash claims 4 lives in Faridpur

Four people, including three women, were killed and 24 more injured...
Low-Income People: Rain adds to their plight in biting cold

The severity of cold intensified yesterday as some rainfall...

No one held, a month after the murder of a disabled man

Family members of a man who was killed over land dispute in...
UK Covid strain spreads to 60 countries

The UK coronavirus strain has spread to at least 60 countries, the...
Poacher held with tiger skin

A team of Rab and forest guards has arrested a poacher and...

Business

Certain criteria not met yet for GSP Plus benefits in EU

Some gaps need to be plugged in the EU’s nine-point action plan for...
Radiant Pharma acquires Julphar for Tk 140cr

Radiant Pharmaceuticals has acquired Julphar Bangladesh, a...
IDLC Venture invests Tk 4cr in Intelligent Machines

IDLC Venture Capital Fund I is investing Tk 4 crore in an...
Payra port logs Tk 253cr in revenue so far

Some 106 oceangoing ships arrived at the Payra port since its...
Biden’s cabinet picks say US to stand against China trade abuses

President-elect Joe Biden’s picks to lead economic and foreign...

Govt gets tough on raw jute hoarders

Dealers or warehouse owners can now store a maximum of 1,000 maunds...
PK Halder among 16 stock gamblers fined

The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) has...
World Wide Web inventor opposes Australia’s news payment plan

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says Australia’s plan to...
Closure of Ring Shine Textile extended again

Ring Shine Textile kept its production halted for the last four...
Alibaba’s shares surge as Jack Ma reappears

Shares in internet giant Alibaba soared more than eight percent...

Economy showing signs of a turnaround

Despite the effects of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic on various...
Kattali Textile didn’t cooperate during audit

Kattali Textile did not cooperate with the auditors while they were...
Pumpkin farming gets popular in Bogura’s char areas

Farmers of Bogura’s char areas alongside the Jamuna and Bangali...
Turkey keen to invest in SEZ

Turkish businesses are keen to invest in a special economic zone in...

Sports

Shakib doesn’t miss a beat on comeback

Displaying emphatic body language that was only matched by...
Sheikh Russel hold off Rahmatganj

A second-half strike from Mohammad Abdullah helped Sheikh Russel...
Royals release Smith

Steve Smith has not been retained by his Indian Premier League side...

Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter
India hailed, Aus under fire

India’s cricketers were hailed as ‘Immortals’ on Wednesday...

Goodbye Rais Bhai

Raisuddin Ahmed, a dedicated and selfless organiser in the...
‘Don’t feed the mice’

Australian Open players have been told not to feed mice at their...

Editorial

Schools need to reopen

We all know how difficult it has been for school-going children to...

One-third of 62 rivers in Barishal no longer navigable

The state of rivers in Bangladesh has been a cause for concern for...

Opinion

A case for improving labour conditions in Southeast Asia

It has been well-known for a long time that Bangladeshi migrant...
Why we need a national strategy to prevent drowning

Globally, drowning is the second leading cause of injury-related...

Factory closure and its indirect impacts on local economy

When a reasonably large factory is closed down, either by the...

US designation of Houthis as terrorists: A wrong move at a wrong time

As the lights were about to go out on Trump presidency, the...

City

Standing up to the oath of sacrifice

It was early morning on September 15, 2019. Sergeant Md Shahidul...
Cluster Admission Tests: Four engineering univs at odds over specifics

Four public engineering universities who had earlier agreed on a...
Dreaming anew with jute

On June 15, 2017, a section of a clay wall crashed and fell on 18...
Ismat Ara’s 1st death anniv

Today is the first death anniversary of former lawmaker and state...

13 canals to be revived: Atiqul

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam yesterday...
Rape Case: HC orders former TV producer to surrender to court

The High Court yesterday directed Aslam Shikder, a former programme...
Couple’s Death on Road: Bus driver remanded

A Dhaka court yesterday placed a driver of Ajmeri Glory Paribahan...
Raisuddin Ahmed no more

Raisuddin Ahmed, a former director of Biman, and former general...

Two MPs demand school reopening

Two ruling Awami League lawmakers yesterday demanded that the...
University student missing in capital

A 23-year-old Bangladeshi youth, also a student at Malaysia’s Asia...
‘Save the ponds of Sylhet’

Environmental activists and locals demanded at a human chain...

Country

Where people proudly live in mud houses

Just as its name implies, Deshigram in Tarash upazila of Sirajganj...
Man to die for killing wife

A court here yesterday sentenced a man to death in connection with...

Border people suffer for years for want of bridge

People from 102 families at Nakharjan border in Kurigram’s Phulbari...

Tourist dies

A young man fell sick while taking bath at Kuakata beach and died...

World

China remains the focus

President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet nominees promised Tuesday that...
Senate leaders discuss power-sharing deal

Facing a 50-50 partisan split in the US Senate, the chamber’s top...

World Reactions

“Law, order and democracy, have prevailed over this disgraceful...
A lotus, not a Chinese dragon: India's Gujarat changes name of fruit

The government in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state...

‘The president who started no war’

US President Donald Trump, in a farewell address released on...
Israel issues tenders for 2,500 new settler homes

Israel has issued tenders for 2,500 new settler homes in the...

Arts & Entertainment

Shooting of Bangabandhu biopic starts in Mumbai

The shooting for the film ‘Bangabandhu’, a biopic on Bangabandhu...

AVASH releases their 4th music video “Ananth”

Rock band AVASH has released its fourth new animated music video ...

Crew of ‘Meghmallar’ talks about the film at IFFI

“Mehgmallar” is among the five films from Bangladesh being screened...

Showbiz

Creating new stories

Rafi Hossain: Welcome to Uncensored with Rafi Hossain. Today, we...
Busy Bipasha

Bipasha Kabir first came into the showbiz industry through the 2009...

Nirob in Rozina’s Film

Nirob is set to be in the first film directed by the renowned actor...
Popcorn Highlights

True Beauty is a South Korean romantic-comedy and coming-of-age...

Noble at the Movies

For the first time, Noble gave his voice to a Bangladeshi film. He...

Shout

Where is Winter?

It is mid-January; the calendar should scream winter. But, ...
What Men Really Want

Struggling to get noticed by that man of your dreams?
Art Exploration 101

Art can seem like an increasingly distant issue to today’s youth,...
Editorial

My mother tells me a story of the year I was born (some time before...

Stop Romanticising the Sacrifices of Motherhood

However, there seem to be some extremely unrealistic expectations...
Aura

Sometimes I wonder what my favorite aura is like, and I think it’s...
My problem with Facebook’s Haha react

The "general sentiment" of a post becomes something of a...

7 Stages of Online Shopping

Picture this: It’s 2 AM and you come across a bag you’ve always...
An Encounter With the Alchemist

My encounter with Santiago, Fatima and the Alchemist changed my...
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Its Message About Crazies

“Crazy” is a word that we throw around quite often without ever...

Book Reviews

The Portrait of the Writer as a Critic

The books which are closest to my heart and which evoke a certain...

‘A Gift for a Ghost’: Spain’s Great New Graphic Novel

Borja González is a self-taught illustrator, and you both can and...

On Gender Mainstreaming and Governance in South Asia

Despite much of the conversations and advances across countries...