The mantas: A life adrift
17 October 2025, 18:57 PM
Echoes of grandeur linger in Haturia’s fading palaces
10 October 2025, 19:09 PM
The struggle against concrete invasion
3 October 2025, 19:24 PM
Durga Puja: A symphony of faith and festivity
26 September 2025, 19:06 PM
Hunger and hardship behind every leaf
19 September 2025, 19:10 PM
In bamboo shelters, Rohingya women stitch new futures
12 September 2025, 19:00 PM
Motijheel holiday market / A shopper’s paradise on a budget in the heart of Dhaka
5 September 2025, 19:01 PM
Sapahar: The heartland of mango trade
29 August 2025, 19:55 PM
Of bookstores & reading clubs
22 August 2025, 18:26 PM
From Dhaka to Kunming for a cure
15 August 2025, 19:19 PM
What does it mean to 'hurt' a religious sentiment?
There’s a fine line between combating hate speech and being intolerant of differences in opinions and viewpoints.
25 February 2022, 18:00 PM
‘We are simply not equipped to run safari parks’
Eminent wildlife conservationist Dr Reza Khan said Bangladesh needs to open an independent department with a mandate to manage all the wildlife of the country, including those in safari parks and zoos.
11 February 2022, 18:00 PM
A trail of death and mismanagement
Despite the forest department lacking the skilled manpower needed to run two existing safari parks, plans are underway for yet another safari park project in Lathitila forest in Moulvibazar’s Juri upazila, at the cost of destroying natural forests.
11 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Gandaria: Grand area no more!
This is how the saying goes -- back in the days, a British traveler arrived in the area and was so blown away by all he saw, he exclaimed, “What a grand area!”
4 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Historic tale of Gandaria
For 67 years, Simanta Pathagar (library) has been bearing Gandaria’s torch. Established under the children’s organisation Khelaghar Ashar, it is also located on Din Nath Sen Road.
4 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Guideline needed to appoint VCs: UGC Chairman
There should be a guideline for appointing vice-chancellors to public universities to reduce political manoeuvring in the appointment process, opined University Grants Commission Chairman Prof Kazi Shahidullah.
28 January 2022, 18:00 PM
HOW TO BE A VC
Although there are no specific rules for the appointment of vice-chancellors (VCs) in public universities, there appears to be an unofficial yet mandatory criterion—a teacher has to be affiliated with a pro-government teacher’s panel to be nominated for the top post.
28 January 2022, 18:00 PM
'Need administrative support to free Narayanganj from godfathers, terrorism'
Dr Selina Hayat Ivy has made a name for herself as an energetic, courageous and people-friendly leader.
21 January 2022, 18:00 PM
A people’s daughter
The year was 1973.
A popular Narayanganj labour leader Ali Ahmed Chunka went to meet Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He wanted to contest in the first-ever Narayanganj municipality polls under the symbol boat.
21 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Brimming with History
Built on the banks of the rivers Buriganga, Turag, Balu and Tongi, Dhaka was urbanised centuries ago. For the last five hundred years, the city has gone through numerous iterations,
14 January 2022, 18:00 PM
The mystery of Chawkbazar's lost ARTEFACTS
Years after some 30-40 ancient artefacts were discovered from inside the old central jail compound in Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar area, information regarding the total number of artefacts at the site or their age is yet to be ascertained due to an internal issue between the Department of Archaeology (DoA) and the excavation team.
14 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Long road to rehabilitation
Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, is spread across five districts of the country
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM
The Forbidden Forest Life
“Bullets can’t hit me! I led hundreds of gunfights, but the bullets always just whizzed past me!” exclaimed a self-assured Jahangir Shikari, former robber of the Sundarbans.
7 January 2022, 18:00 PM
South Africa’s apartheid explained
Apartheid -- an Afrikaans-language word meaning the state of “apartness” -- became official government policy in 1948 when the conservative
31 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Tutu’s life in key dates
October, 7, 1931: He is born in the small town of Klerksdorp, west of Johannesburg, his mother a domestic worker and his father a teacher.
31 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Desmond Tutu
“Never has a (Nobel) peace prize been so fitting,” said Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store after South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu,
31 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Another piece of history demolished
Violating a High Court order, a 200-year-old building on Armenian Street in Dhaka’s Armanitola has been demolished by its present owners to make way for shops.
17 November 2020, 18:00 PM
“If you don’t have a free press, then you don’t have freedom”
What are the challenges for journalism in Bangladesh’s context and overall in the fake news/post-truth era we live in?
28 November 2019, 18:00 PM