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19 July 2022, 18:00 PM
News
Rubaiya Murshed’s ‘Nobody’s Children’: UPL publishes book on struggles of street children
2 July 2022, 13:13 PM
Culture
ACC looking into procurement anomalies at BR
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
Dhaka Airport: Passenger leaves behind Saudi riyal worth Tk 6cr
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
70 died in political clashes this year
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
101st birthday of DU
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Youth
‘Enough with mere formalities’
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
What steps taken for their birth certificates?
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
‘Corruption, anarchy the new norm’
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
News
Dengue cases shot up in June
30 June 2022, 18:00 PM
Health
‘Isolation leaves them deprived’
“There is poverty in every sector, but tea workers suffer the most as they’re geographically confined due to several reasons. They must be integrated into the mainstream,” said Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud, an eminent economist, yesterday.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Speak up for Palestine
Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN Ambassador Rabab Fatima yesterday urged the international community to take urgent and decisive actions to resolve the longstanding crisis in Palestine.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM
House Sparrow
While we may not give them a second look, sparrows have distinguished lineage. They lend their name, Passer, to the order Passerines, which comprises more than half of the world’s bird species. Another name for Passerine is songbird.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Pangolin rescued, released in Lawachhara
A pangolin was released in Lawachhara forest in Kamalganj upazila of Moulvibazar on Thursday evening after seven days of treatment.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Three killed in road accidents
Three people were killed and four others injured in road accidents in two districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM
JS budget session to be cut short due to Covid
The daily order of business of this year’s budget session will be carried out with minimum lawmakers in the House to maintain social distancing and avoid risk of Covid-19 infection, and the duration of the session will be brief.
21 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Justice Nazmun Ara named DG of JATI
Justice Nazmun Ara Sultana, former judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, has been appointed as director general (DG) of Judicial Administration Training Institute (JATI) for next two years.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM
4 bodies of drowing victims recovered from river Padma
Four bodies have been recovered after two separate incidents of drowning in Munshiganj district’s Lohajang upazila.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Two youths arrested on rape charges
Police yesterday arrested two youths for raping a 35-year-old woman in Khulna’s Dumuria upazila.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Abdus Shahid passes away
Kazi Abdus Shahid Lal, a Language Movement veteran and lawyer in Jashore, died at a local hospital yesterday, aged 82.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Slow loris, fishing cat rescued in Rangamati
A slow loris, locally known as “Lojjaboti Banor”, and a fishing cat were rescued in Rangamati’s Bagaichhari and Naniarchhar upazilas.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM
World needs to know about Chuknagar genocide: speakers
The genocide of Chuknagar stands as one of the most brutal and unprecedented massacres during the Liberation War, said Shahriar Kabir, president of Ekatturer Ghatok Dalal Nirmul Committee.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Three killed as car hits parked truck
Three people were killed and three others injured when a car hit a truck parked on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria yesterday.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM
ACC can investigate if initial report is faulty
The Anti-Corruption Commission has every right and authority to conduct further investigation into any corruption case if the initial investigation report is found defective and not acceptable in the eye of law, the High Court observed in a full text of its verdict released yesterday.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM
HC leaves matter up to govt, environmentalists
A High Court bench yesterday expressed hope that the problems regarding tree Suhrawardy Udyan’s tree felling will be resolved amicably, through discussions between the government and environmentalists.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM
GM Quader slams Official Secrets Act
Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader yesterday demanded formation of a judicial inquiry committee to investigate the harassment of senior journalist Rozina Islam.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Call to free Rozina gets louder
Journalist leaders yesterday slammed the health ministry, demanding punishment of its officials who harassed Prothom Alo’s investigative reporter Rozina Islam, who was arrested on Monday in a case filed under the Official Secrets Act, and called for her unconditional release.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Biman suspends flights to Saudi Arabia temporarily
Biman Bangladesh Airlines has suspended flights to Saudi Arabia for five days starting from yesterday.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Reckless recruitment racks up RU budget
In the last 10 years, Rajshahi University’s annual expenditures has risen by Tk 278.67 crore.
20 May 2021, 18:00 PM
Harun-ur-Rashid no more
Harun-ur-Rashid, president of Bangladesh Newspaper Agents’ Association, died at a hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday night, aged 56.
19 May 2021, 18:00 PM