Quota in Public Service: Students stage demo for reform

The call for reforming the quota system in public service recruitments is getting louder as demonstration over the issue has spread to various educational institutions across the country.
25 February 2018, 18:00 PM

TOP QUOTE!

“Incidents of question leaks in the past cannot be a justification for the recent leaks.”
25 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Wounds yet to heal

Tasim lost both his parents in just nine months.
25 February 2018, 18:00 PM

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“The area needed to be cleared to ease people's suffering.”
24 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Leakers now prepare to taint HSC

No sooner had the SSC exams finished than the question leakers were tempting the HSC examinees on social media.
24 February 2018, 18:00 PM

8-year-old girl killed

Police recovered the body of an eight-year-old girl in the district's Sreepur upazila around midnight on Thursday, about four hours after she went missing from near her home.
23 February 2018, 18:00 PM

SSC Question Leak: Nahid admits failure to find the root

A total of 153 people have been arrested so far in 52 cases for their alleged role in the question leak during the Secondary School Certificate exams, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said yesterday.
23 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Top Quote

“Many of these villages were scenes of atrocities against Rohingya and should be preserved…”
23 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh on Graft Index: Slightly better, still a long way to go

Bangladesh has moved two notches up in the global Corruption Perceptions Index of 2017, but the scale of corruption in
22 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Khaleda files appeal with High Court

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia filed an appeal with the High Court yesterday challenging the special court's verdict that sentenced her to five years' imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case.
21 February 2018, 18:00 PM

4 killed falling off the roof of a running train

Four people, including two RMG workers, travelling on the roof of a train were killed after being hit by the girder of a footbridge in Raninagar upazila of Naogaon in the early hours of yesterday.
21 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Myanmar destroying massacre evidence

The Myanmar government is bulldozing over the site of a Rohingya mass grave in an effort to destroy evidence of a massacre committed by the military last year, says a rights group.
21 February 2018, 18:00 PM

New Delhi has nothing to worry about

India should not be worried about Bangladesh's growing ties with China, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said, asserting that the cooperation with Beijing was meant only for the country's development.
21 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Elevated Expressway: 7pc progress in 7 years

The government in the last seven years has failed to issue the work order for the 47km Dhaka Elevated Expressway (DEE) even though its construction has been inaugurated twice.
21 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Airport Security: Govt official breaches it this time

A customs official went up the jetway of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport Monday night without authorisation.
21 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh Ad Market: Two global giants gobble up most

Companies in Bangladesh are spending nearly Tk 1,000 crore every year on digital marketing on Facebook and Google to reach their target audience.
20 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Zia Orphanage Trust Case: Defence forged document

The defence had forged a document and submitted it to the court to save Khaleda Zia and other accused in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case, reads the full verdict.
20 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Light hasn't gone out

Writing, reading, singing and just plain speaking: February is the month to celebrate our mother tongue in all its vibrant forms. It's when we remember the sacrifice of the heroes of the 1952 Language
20 February 2018, 18:00 PM

For Bangla, women too were at the forefront

It was a testing time, the 1950s.
20 February 2018, 18:00 PM

Tribute to language martyrs

Just before midnight, as words to “Amar Bhaiyer Rokte Rangano”, began to waft through the air, the nation paid homage to the Language Movement martyrs.
20 February 2018, 18:00 PM