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We want justice delivered quickly

The father of the female university student, who died on Sunday,...
Vaccination Campaign: 41,000 register in seven days

Around 41,000 people have got registered online in seven days till...
Tigers return to Tests today

Unlike the team that surrendered meekly in the three-match ODI...
Army HQ condemns Al Jazeera report

Bangladesh authorities have termed an Al Jazeera investigative...

Statement on Myanmar Coup: UNSC members unable to agree

A top UN official urged the United Nations Security Council...
Propaganda on against Bangladesh, says PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the country would move...
RHD helps officials stay off project sites

Despite repeated government directives on project officials to stay...
Scrap seller turns ‘liquor’ maker

Jahangir Alam was not even able to complete a school education.

Back Page

Parole Violations: Russian court jails Navalny

A Russian court jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny yesterday in a...
Whitening Black Money: Don’t give the scope next fiscal year

A number of renowned economists and industrialists have urged the...
Covid Probe: WHO slams critics

The World Health Organization blasted critics of its investigation...
12 more die, 525 get Covid

Bangladesh’s Covid-19 fatalities rose to 8,149 as the health...
HK leader defends ‘ambush lockdown’ tactics

Hong Kong’s leader defended her administration’s use of “ambush...

Buet says no to uniform admission test

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has decided not...
Have EC probed by judicial council

One hundred and one Supreme Court lawyers yesterday sent a letter...
Turkish Charter: Erdogan ally backs call for rewrite

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling coalition partner yesterday...
Employment in Malaysia: Dhaka urges KL to finalise protocol

Bangladesh has urged Malaysia to finalise the protocol amending the...
Covid ICU deaths have plunged, but progress may be stalling: study

Covid-19 treatments and improved hospital care have reduced death...

Rohingya Repatriation: Next round talks look uncertain

Amid the changed situation in Myanmar, the next round of virtual...
Cold wave may end in a day or 2

The ongoing cold spell that causes immense sufferings to the people...
2 govt officials held for stealing Tk 2.20cr

Police arrested two government officials in Dinajpur on Monday for...
Missing Rohingya women trafficked from Indonesia refugee camp

Scores of Rohingya women missing from a refugee camp in Indonesia...

Business

India looks to beef up connectivity with Bangladesh

The coronavirus pandemic has rattled the economies, but it has also...
Govt plans university-based tech innovation hubs

University-going students aspiring to be tech-entrepreneurs are set...
Pran adopts aseptic processing for tomato pulp export

Pran has started aseptically processing tomato pulp at its Barind...
Chinese state newspaper omits Jack Ma from list of entrepreneurial leaders

Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has been left off a list of Chinese...
US GDP to recover from pandemic mid-2021

The world’s largest economy will recover from the coronavirus...
Tesla to recall 135,000 US vehicles under pressure from auto safety regulators

Tesla Inc has agreed to recall 134,951 Model S and Model X vehicles...

Export drops 5pc in January

Earnings from merchandise exports fell 4.99 per cent year-on-year...
BB warns of some inflationary pressure

Bangladesh may face some inflationary pressure in the coming months...
BSEC wants cuts in corporate tax for listed firms

Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) is working to...
Pfizer sees about $15b in 2021 sales from Covid-19 vaccine

Pfizer Inc on Tuesday forecast sales of about $15 billion from the...
India’s Oct-Jan sugar output jumps 25pc to 17.7m tonnes

Indian sugar mills produced 17.7 million tonnes of sugar in the...
Panasonic hikes full-year forecasts despite virus impact

Japanese electronics giant Panasonic on Tuesday revised its full...

Bike registration fee halved

The government yesterday slashed motorcycle registration fees by...
Mir Akhter stocks max out on debut

Stocks of construction and engineering company Mir Akhter Hossain...
Eurozone economy shrank less than expected in 2020

The eurozone economy shrank less than expected in 2020 given the...
Delhi court gives interim relief to Amazon in Future Group dispute

India’s Future Group needs to maintain status quo with respect to...
Economic growth has devastating cost to nature, review finds

Humanity’s unbridled growth in recent decades has come at a ...

Sports

Areas in focus as Tigers return in whites

The recent ODI series against the West Indies marked Bangladesh’s...
‘Future of men’s tennis in good hands’

World number one Novak Djokovic said the future of men’s tennis was...

‘Crucial to put runs on the board’

The last time a full-strength West Indies toured Bangladesh back in...
Olympics to go ahead, says Mori

The pandemic-postponed Olympics will go ahead this summer “however...

Sheikh Jamal notch dramatic win

Sheikh Jamal staged a superb second-half performance to hand title...
Australia scrap South Africa tour

Australia pulled out of their Test cricket tour to South Africa...

Editorial

Our take on the Al Jazeera Report

Early yesterday, the Qatar based media organisation Al Jazeera...

HC order on filling up of Chengti Khal

With the administration’s apparent indifference, in many cases, to...

Opinion

Strategies to tackle pandemic induced poverty in Bangladesh

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented rise in...
Ensure access to justice for Bangladeshi migrant workers

Bangladesh is one of the top labour sending countries of the world....

Why Bangladesh shouldn’t count on a fossil fuel future

Two astonishing figures have circulated in the Asian energy sector...

To move or not to move

For those who had expected a quick rapprochement initiative from...

City

The bike lanes to nowhere

Around 15 months after the inauguration of Dhaka North City...
Are they interconnected?

The High Court yesterday wanted to know whether gambling and casino...
BIGD named among ‘Top 40 Think Tanks Worldwide’

Brac Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), an independent...
Language veteran Abdul Malek passes away

Khandakar Abdul Malek Shahidullah, a Language Movement veteran,...
Man held with 1.30 lakh yaba pills

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) in a drive yesterday arrested an...

Another one bites the dust

Due to the sharp fall in the number of theatre audience for...
Money Laundering Case Against SK Sinha: Two more witnesses testify

Two more prosecution witnesses, including a bench reader of...
Schoolgirl Murder in Savar: AL leader’s son arrested

Five months after the tragic murder of Savar school student Nila...
‘Return to Work’ strategy drafted

Bangladesh Business and Disability Network (BBDN) with the support...
92 jailed during drive to protect jatka in Barishal

A total of 92 fishermen were jailed for different terms for netting...

EVMs drew fewer voters than ballots

Voter turnout at municipalities that used Electronic Voting...
Karmojibi Nari demands capital punishment of culprits involved

Working women’s platform Karmojibi Nari demonstrated at Central...
Former BAU VC Mohammad Farouk no more

Dr Shah Mohammad Farouk, former vice chancellor of Bangladesh...
Road crashes kill two

Two people were killed in road accidents in two districts yesterday...

Country

Restoration of canals revives hope in 3 Kalapara villages

The recent re-excavation of two silted canals, Kumrimara and...
4 held for beating Sunamganj journalist

Police detained four people yesterday in connection with a case for...

Rangamati jujube growers all smile

Jujube is a small fruit, locally known as boroi. Growers of the...

Defeated candidates demand re-polling

Mayoral and councillor candidates of Tangail municipality, all...

World

What are Biden’s options?

US President Joe Biden, facing his first major international crisis...
Congress elects Bolsonaro allies as new leaders

Brazil’s Congress on Monday elected two allies of President Jair...
Trump aimed mob ‘like a loaded cannon’ at Capitol

The US House of Representatives Democrats who will prosecute former...
Twitter blocks accounts, tweets on gov’t order

Twitter on Monday temporarily blocked scores of accounts and tweets...

Coup just a ‘cabinet reshuffle’

The military takeover in Myanmar and detention of Aung San Suu Kyi...
S’pore limits contact-tracing data access after outcry

Singapore’s parliament passed a law yesterday limiting the use of...
N Ireland halts post-Brexit checks

The British government yesterday condemned threats to port workers...

Kremlin critic Navalny in court facing prison term

The Kremlin’s most prominent critic Alexei Navalny was in a Moscow...
Mediate US return to nuke deal

Iran’s foreign minister asked the European Union to coordinate a...
The Lady vanishes

The Myanmar military’s detention of Aung San Suu Kyi during this...

Arts & Entertainment

Concert for Tuhin to be held on February 5

To support Shahadat Parvez Tuhin, the co-ordinator of the music...

‘Kanjus’ on stage again after a year

With the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic, live theatre came...

Showbiz

4.48 Montrash

Professional theatre began in Dhaka around the 80s, but when movies...
Shakib Khan’s Fire

The film Agun which stars Shakib Khan is set to be released next...

Mohsina Akhter

When selecting a play, we always decide by considering the message...
Ripa in ‘Mukti’

Newcomer actor Raj Ripa is set to play the leading role for the...

Tania Ahmed Back After 14 Months

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, actor Tania Ahmed was stuck in US for...

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