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Only three women in the new cabinet

18 February 2026, 00:00 AM
Only three of the 49 members in the newly announced cabinet are women, accounting for just 6 percent of the government’s top executive body.
18 February 2026, 00:00 AM
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Saraswati Puja: DU, JnU mandaps spotlight attacks on media houses

24 January 2026, 05:03 AM
The Saraswati Puja celebration of Dhaka University’s Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, held at Jagannath Hall yesterday, featured the themes of mob violence and arson attacks on Bangladeshi media houses.
24 January 2026, 05:03 AM
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DU Saraswati Puja mandap spotlights attacks on Bangladeshi media houses

23 January 2026, 12:28 PM
Journalism students use theme to condemn attacks on The Daily Star and Prothom Alo
23 January 2026, 12:28 PM
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Saint martin’s 20-bed hospital: When the sea stands between life and death

2 January 2026, 18:00 PM
Forty-five-year-old fisherman Roton Mollah has been raising his young daughter alone for the past year after losing his wife and unborn child while trying to reach medical care from Saint Martin’s Island.
2 January 2026, 18:00 PM
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Record high C-section births raise concerns

12 December 2025, 20:56 PM
Israt Jahan, a 21-year-old student of Dhaka University, gave birth to a girl a year ago. Conceiving shortly after her marriage, she chose to undergo a C-section for delivery.
12 December 2025, 20:56 PM
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Jaflong Khasia Punji: Touring more like a local, less like a tourist

12 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Stay briefly with the ethnic people, support community-led tourism, livelihoods
12 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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Life inside DU female halls following a quake

22 November 2025, 18:00 PM
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake jolted the capital and surrounding areas on Friday, triggering panic among people across the city.
22 November 2025, 18:00 PM
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World children’s day / Child marriage still a bleak shadow on Bangladesh

19 November 2025, 18:25 PM
Progress on ending child marriage remains alarmingly slow, particularly among adolescent girls aged 15-19, MICS findings
19 November 2025, 18:25 PM
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Hope rises in coastal towns as ADB projects tackle flood and water woes

Upgrades bring visible relief, but clean water and women’s safety remain challenges
5 November 2025, 12:06 PM
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Bleeding in silence: Unheard struggles of Bangladesh's women tea workers

Under the blazing sun in Moulvibazar’s Madhabkunda Tea Estate, 43-year-old Apola Kumari picks around 23 kilograms of tea leaves daily for Tk 178.
30 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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Allegations of irregularities surface even though observers say Rucsu Polls peaceful

Democratic Students' Council alleges of lack of level playing field
16 October 2025, 14:53 PM
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Mehedi, songs, and smiles: Campus turns festive ahead of Rucsu polls

Voters and candidates soaking in the final hours
15 October 2025, 16:44 PM
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Hazera Begum’s home of hope

In a narrow Dhaka neighbourhood where children of sex workers once drifted between hunger and the streets, a different rhythm now fills the days. Forty-two children wake for lessons, sit for exams, and dream of becoming doctors or officers.
4 October 2025, 18:57 PM
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She laid down her life to save her students

On World Teachers’ Day, as students honour their mentors with gratitude, one name carries a deeper, more poignant weight: Mahreen Chowdhury.
4 October 2025, 18:00 PM
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When water becomes poison

Women bear brunt as Satkhira’s salinity crosses WHO limit
16 September 2025, 18:34 PM
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Ducsu AGS candidates: Rights, safety, reforms their top agendas

A total of 25 candidates are contesting for the post of assistant general secretary (AGS) in this year's Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) election, scheduled for September 9.
7 September 2025, 18:00 PM
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Ducsu polls: History rewritten with record number of women candidates

For the first time in its history, the Ducsu polls will see the highest number of women vying for top positions, marking a significant shift in a space long dominated by men.
21 August 2025, 18:14 PM
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Ducsu’s role in Bangladesh’s political DNA

The Dhaka University Central Students’ Union elections are deeply entwined with Bangladesh’s student politics, historically shaping national movements from the 1952 Language Movement to the 1969 Mass Uprising and the 1971 Liberation War.
20 August 2025, 19:59 PM
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Childhood buried in trash

For the past decade, 18-year-old Raza has been wading through garbage to help his family survive.
5 August 2025, 18:21 PM
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Inside the July uprising: Women led, the nation followed

With clenched fists and fierce voices, a group of fearless women stood before the locked gates of their residential halls on the night of July 14, 2024. There were no commands, no central leader -- only rage and a deep sense of injustice. They broke through the gates and poured into the streets.
28 July 2025, 18:18 PM
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July uprising: Extraordinary powers of the ordinary people

The protests were loud, defiant, and spreading fast. But behind them was a quieter resistance
23 July 2025, 18:15 PM
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‘Please help us find our children’

Parul wails in anguish as she searches for her 3rd grader daughter Nusrat
21 July 2025, 10:56 AM
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From a broken past to a bright future

Imagine a room full of eight teenage girls huddled around a computer, hands trembling, hearts racing -- all waiting for their SSC results.
20 July 2025, 18:26 PM
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Lack of safe, hygienic restrooms: A constant struggle for Dhaka women

S M Moon, a 24-year-old graphic design student and small business owner from Dhaka’s Bashundhara Residential Area, faces a daily struggle just to move around the city.
14 June 2025, 20:41 PM
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Nearly 9 out of 10 victims of rape were children

Between January and April this year, 87.56 percent of reported rape victims with known ages were children
24 May 2025, 18:31 PM
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