Swechchhasebak League leader hacked to death in Pirojpur

An activist of the Awami League rebel chairman candidate for Mathbaria upazila was hacked to death allegedly by supporters of the AL candidate yesterday.
25 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Independents faring well

Independent candidates bagged almost one third of the chairman posts fighting against the Awami League nominees in the first three phases of upazila parishad elections beginning on March 10.
25 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Work for int'l recognition of Genocide Day

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon all to make joint efforts to get international recognition of the Genocide Day.
25 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Mired in misery

The mother of a martyr fears she may have to take up begging to make ends meet.
25 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Independence Day Today: THE NORTHERN UPRISING

The resistance during the 1971 Liberation War began in Rangpur early March and it was a full-on war even before the black night of March 25.
25 March 2019, 18:00 PM

UN draws up plans to 'facilitate' move

The United Nations is making plans to help Bangladesh relocate thousands of Rohingya refugees to a remote island off its coast, documents seen by Reuters show, a move opposed by many refugees and that some human rights experts fear could spark a new crisis.
24 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Student's Death on Road: Protests go on in Sylhet

Students in Sylhet continued protests for the second day yesterday, demanding justice for Wasim Adnan who died on Saturday after being pushed off a bus by the helper and crushed under the rear wheels.
24 March 2019, 18:00 PM

UN will raise the issue of '71 genocide

Visiting UN Under-Secretary General and Special Adviser on Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng yesterday said the United Nations will raise the 1971 issue of the Pakistani genocide in Bangladesh at the international forum.
24 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Third phase too sees low turnout, anomalies

Sporadic violence and irregularities at a number of voting centres marked the third phase of upazila parishad elections yesterday amid a low voter turnout.
24 March 2019, 18:00 PM

WIRELESS MAN'S WAR

An eerie stillness hung over Dhaka since the afternoon of March 25, 1971. In the evening, the uneasiness escalated into a foreboding, like a lull before the storm.
24 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Student pushed off bus, killed

A student of Sylhet Agricultural University died after he was pushed off a bus by the helper and crushed under the rear wheels in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj yesterday evening.
23 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Purbachal Project: CONCEPT lost on REVISIONS

Rajuk is set to turn land originally earmarked for education and environment preservation into commercial and business plots in its 6,227-acre Purbachal New Town project in the city's outskirts.
23 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Shahnaz Rahmatullah passes away

Shahnaz Rahmatullah, the queen of modern Bangla music with an illustrious career spanning decades, passed away yesterday. She was 67.
23 March 2019, 18:00 PM

IS 'caliphate' falls

Kurdish-led forces pronounced the death of the Islamic State group's nearly five-year-old "caliphate" yesterday after flushing out diehard jihadists from their very last bastion in eastern Syria.
23 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Enter Raushan, exit GM Quader

Internal division over leadership widens in Jatiya Party as its Chairman HM Ershad has nominated his wife Raushan Ershad for deputy leader of the opposition, removing his younger brother GM Quader from the post.
23 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Ducsu finally gets going

The Dhaka University Central Students' Union yesterday saw its first executive meeting in nearly three decades with different student organisations demanding repolling to the prestigious platform.
23 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Set up a road safety authority

A committee headed by former shipping minister Shajahan Khan has prepared a draft report on preventing road accidents and bringing discipline in the road transport sector.
23 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Mosque Attack Victims: Silence, prayers as NZ mourns

The Muslim call to prayer sounded out over Christchurch and around New Zealand yesterday, as thousands gathered to remember the 50 people killed by a lone gunman at two mosques a week ago.
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM

Dhaka adorned with red-green

On this day in 1971, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman raised the Bangladesh flag, to the cheers of a crowd gathered on the road outside his Dhanmondi residence.
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM

91 arrested in anti-drug raid

The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested 91 people, including six women, in an anti-narcotics drive in Mohammadpur's Geneva Camp, considered a major drug hub in the capital.
22 March 2019, 18:00 PM