Dried fish season begins in Kuakata
12 November 2025, 12:37 PM
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Tobacco cultivation expands in Rangpur, Lalmonirhat amid profit lure
9 November 2025, 13:58 PM
Environment
Govt looks to implement new pay scale in phases
23 October 2025, 18:25 PM
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State runs on laws, not emotions
23 October 2025, 18:15 PM
News
ACC may get power to probe Bangladeshis abroad
23 October 2025, 18:12 PM
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RPO amendment: Alliance candidates must use own party symbols
23 October 2025, 18:10 PM
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Bangladesh Gonotantrik Chhatra Sangsad rebrands as ‘Jatiyo Chhatro Shokti’
23 October 2025, 17:38 PM
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'Is it really possible to hear 800 cases within 4-5 hours?'
23 October 2025, 16:58 PM
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Police seek to clear Iresh Zaker, ex-cabinet secretary Mahbub Hossain from July uprising murder case
23 October 2025, 16:51 PM
News
'Time granted to war criminals, but not to a freedom fighter': ZI Khan Panna
23 October 2025, 16:30 PM
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Gazipur garment workers block highway for 2hrs for dues, Eid bonus
Traffic resumed around 9:00am after law enforcers managed to convince the protesters to clear the road
22 March 2025, 05:48 AM
Journos attacked at Cumilla hospital while covering ‘death by negligence’
At least five journalists were injured in an attack allegedly by intern doctors and medical students while covering death due to "negligence" at Cumilla Medical College Hospital last night
22 March 2025, 04:17 AM
Heathrow Power Outage: Biman flight forced to return to Dhaka
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight to London was forced to turn back yesterday after a power outage disrupted operations at Heathrow Airport.
21 March 2025, 21:49 PM
Coastal areas in Khulna: Where drinking water becomes a luxury
When Razia Begum, now 56, got married at just 16, water was not a concern. Like most women in her village of Banisanta in Khulna’s Dacope upazila, she collected freshwater from nearby ponds. Life was simple, and water was abundant.
21 March 2025, 20:20 PM
Struggling for every drop
Residents of Thangkhroi Para, a centuries-old village in Bandarban Sadar upazila, are grappling with an acute drinking water crisis even before the peak of summer.
21 March 2025, 20:20 PM
Port city: Water crisis grips residents amid rising salinity
For the past two weeks, residents of Chattogram have been grappling with an acute crisis of drinkable water as rising salinity levels in the supply have made it virtually undrinkable.
21 March 2025, 20:16 PM
A man of integrity and courage
Renowned entrepreneur Syed Manzur Elahi was a man of kindness, integrity, and courage, who proved that businesses can thrive through honesty and compliance, said his children, business leaders, friends, and colleagues.
21 March 2025, 20:09 PM
Take action to uphold freedom of expression
International human rights organisations, in a joint statement yesterday, urged the government to uphold freedom of expression and opinion, highlighting alarming incidents of arrests, harassment, and violence against journalists and human rights defenders in recent weeks.
21 March 2025, 20:01 PM
Hundreds rally demanding end to Gaza genocide
Hundreds of protesters, including members of several religious groups such as Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh and Khilafat Majlis, staged demonstrations in front of the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque yesterday, demanding an end to the Israeli onslaught in Gaza.
21 March 2025, 20:01 PM
Closure of factories: Eid joy eludes jobless workers
An uncertain future is overshadowing the joy of the upcoming Eid for thousands of workers who have lost their jobs due to factory closures and layoffs in the wake of last year’s political shift.
21 March 2025, 19:02 PM
Dhaka’s groundwater: Drying up alarmingly
Despite annual recharge every year, there is an overall declining trend in groundwater level due to over-extraction
21 March 2025, 18:48 PM
Rohingyas are victims of racial discrimination
Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus yesterday called for global action against racial injustice and highlighted the plight of the Rohingyas, who remain victims of racial discrimination and prolonged statelessness.
21 March 2025, 18:09 PM
Man arrested with 130 train tickets in Thakurgaon
The arrested individual is a Lance Corporal of the Bangladesh Navy
21 March 2025, 09:37 AM
What can we learn from China’s healthcare system?
As part of a new chapter in bilateral ties between China and Bangladesh, 14 patients from Bangladesh were sent for free medical treatment
21 March 2025, 08:18 AM
Soil trader hacked to death in Gazipur, 2 detained
Locals chased and detained the two robbers, beat them up, and handed them over to the police
21 March 2025, 06:40 AM
Reform process facing internal, external resistance
Both internal and external forces are attempting to obstruct the reform process, National Consensus Commission (NCC) Vice-President Prof Ali Riaz said yesterday.
20 March 2025, 18:40 PM
Several local polls observers likely to be excluded: EC
Many of the local election observer organisations are likely to be excluded from the upcoming 13th National Parliamentary Election.
20 March 2025, 18:37 PM
Consensus commission denies pressure over reform
The National Consensus Commission yesterday dismissed concerns of political influence over the timing of electoral reforms.
20 March 2025, 18:36 PM
State must move away from excessive surveillance: TIB
Bangladesh has turned into a surveillance-based society, said Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Executive Director Iftekharuzzaman yesterday.
20 March 2025, 18:35 PM
Law protecting women, children: Advisory council clears amendments to fast-track trial
The advisory council yesterday approved several key decisions, including amendments to the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act to reduce the trial and investigation time for rape cases by half.
20 March 2025, 18:33 PM