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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
Minoti Kundu no more
Minoti Kundu -- mother of Ajoy Kumar Kundu, chief operating officer of Mediacom Ltd. -- has passed away on Sunday. She had suffered from a brain hemorrhage and was admitted to Square Hospital. She was 76.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Ailing DU student Zahidul in need of financial assistance
Zahidul Islam, a second year BBA student of Dhaka University’s Management Department, is suffering from liver cirrhosis disease.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM
A glorified garbage dump
If one visits KB Aman Road’s Phooltola area in the port city, they may come across a garbage dump full of polythene bags. However, this very “dump” is in fact part of the Chaktai canal.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Prosecution seeks death penalty for 4
The prosecution yesterday completed arguments and sought capital punishment for four Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activists in Prof Humayun Azad murder case.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Suspended SI at it again!
Police arrested a suspended sub-inspector of Armed Police Battalion in Sylhet and four others while selling yaba in Subidbazar area of Sylhet city yesterday afternoon.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Two murder accused held in Ctg, Sirajganj
Two persons have been arrested in the last two days over the killing of two people during election campaigns in Sirajganj and Chattogram.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Who stole the pond?
In the 19th century, the famous Majumdar family of Sylhet dug up a large pond to fulfil local people’s need for water in greater Amberkhana area in Sylhet city.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Bureaucrats shouldn’t act like politicians’
Bureaucrats should not “exceed their limit” and act as politicians, Prof Dr Syed Modasser Ali, a former adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said yesterday.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Five killed in bike accidents
Five people including two cops were killed in three separate motorcycle accidents yesterday, indicating the sharp rise in accidents of the two wheeler vehicle across the country.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM
The curious case of e-ticketing
The queue at Bangladesh National Museum was a little unusual this Friday. Things were getting a bit chaotic too. The issue laid with some who were being refused to enter. Waiting at the back of the line for a long time, they couldn’t believe they were being turned back.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM
How to avoid fake coronavirus news
They have started calling it an “infodemic”. The proliferation of fake news about the COVID-19 pandemic has become such a widespread dilemma, it’s only fitting that a such a name be used for it.
18 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Garment worker goes missing in Shitalakkhya river
A garment worker remains missing after he fell from a trawler in the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj today.
18 January 2021, 09:15 AM
Bus hits motorcycle, leaving couple dead in Dhaka airport area
A couple was killed after a bus hit their motorcycle in Dhaka airport area this morning.
18 January 2021, 04:54 AM
Graft Cases: Freeze 18 bank accounts of Awal, wife: court to ACC
A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to freeze 18 bank accounts and seize documents of 40 scheduled immovable properties of former Pirojpur lawmaker AKMA Awal and his wife Laila Parvin in two graft cases.
17 January 2021, 18:00 PM
United Hospital Fire: SC stays HC order to pay Tk 30 lakh each to families
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday stayed for eight weeks the January 11 High Court order that directed United Hospital authorities to pay Tk 30 lakh as initial payment to each of the families of four victims, who were killed in a fire at its isolation unit on May 27 last year, in 15 days.
17 January 2021, 18:00 PM
60 illegal structures demolished to upgrade road
Roads and Highways Department yesterday started an eviction drive against illegal structures on Sher-e-Bangla Road in Khulna city to upgrade the two-lane road into a four-lane one.
17 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Woman sues husband, his 5 friends for rape
A woman yesterday filed a case stating that her husband’s friends gang-raped her in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area five days ago.
17 January 2021, 18:00 PM
IGP promises to uproot militancy
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed yesterday expressed his conviction to uproot militancy from the country.
17 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Kakrail Double Murder: Husband, 2 others sentenced to death
A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced three people to death for killing Shamsun Nahar and her 17-year-old son Sajjadul Karim Shaon in Dhaka’s Kakrail area in 2017.
17 January 2021, 18:00 PM
Saudi considers them Bangladeshis: envoy
Saudi Ambassador to Bangladesh Issa bin Youssef Al-Duhailan yesterday said they are considering those Rohingyas as Bangladeshis who have been to Saudi Arabia with Bangladeshi passports.
17 January 2021, 18:00 PM