Bangladeshi mariner stranded on drone-hit tanker
6 December 2025, 13:54 PM
News
Daria-i-Noor, ‘sister’ to Koh-i-Noor, awaits first light in 117 years
8 October 2025, 15:06 PM
Culture
Nafisa’s HSC result the last memory left with her mother
16 October 2024, 19:58 PM
News
A glimpse into Zahir Raihan's Films
19 August 2024, 08:55 AM
Entertainment
Dubai floods / Thousands of Bangladeshis stranded at Dhaka, Dubai airports
18 April 2024, 13:56 PM
Environment
From outlaws to flower growers
14 April 2024, 06:45 AM
News
'Genuine' SSC, HSC certificates for sale!
1 April 2024, 15:14 PM
News
Counterfeiting currency / Learning from YouTube, he sells them on Facebook
28 March 2024, 14:43 PM
News
Why many countries are trying a four-day work week
21 January 2024, 12:52 PM
News
Shaheed Asad: The spark that lit a fuse in 1969
20 January 2024, 14:11 PM
News
Bangladeshi mariner stranded on drone-hit tanker
Adrift for 5 days, mariner remains stuck in Bulgarian waters
6 December 2025, 13:54 PM
Daria-i-Noor, ‘sister’ to Koh-i-Noor, awaits first light in 117 years
Committee to inspect legendary diamond mortgaged by Nawab Salimullah in 1908
8 October 2025, 15:06 PM
Nafisa’s HSC result the last memory left with her mother
When the HSC results were published yesterday, Kulsum Begum, mother of 17-year-old Nafisa Hossin Marwa, found out that her daughter had secured GPA 4.25
16 October 2024, 19:58 PM
A glimpse into Zahir Raihan's Films
Zahir Raihan, having done some noteworthy works in Benglali literature and film died an untimely death before he had a chance to explore his full potential.
19 August 2024, 08:55 AM
From outlaws to flower growers
Former members of outlawed groups in Jhenidah rebuild their lives as flower growers.
14 April 2024, 06:45 AM
'Genuine' SSC, HSC certificates for sale!
System analyst at technical education board admits to selling over 5,000 of those in a couple of years
1 April 2024, 15:14 PM
Learning from YouTube, he sells them on Facebook
The gang planned to circulate Tk 50 lakh worth of fake currency before Eid
28 March 2024, 14:43 PM
Why many countries are trying a four-day work week
The Dominican Republic announced this week that they would be launching a six-month voluntary trial for a four-day work week
21 January 2024, 12:52 PM
Shaheed Asad: The spark that lit a fuse in 1969
One must understand the butterfly effect to grasp the significance of Shaheed Asad in the history of Bangladesh. In early 1969, uniting the ideologically diverse group of opposition political parties in East Pakistan would have been the foremost thought in the minds of activists across the country
20 January 2024, 14:11 PM
Why December 21 is the longest night of the year
The Winter Solstice is a significant astronomical event in many cultures, marking the official middle of winter in many temperate regions, while in other places it’s considered the start of winter
21 December 2023, 14:01 PM
For the love of fountain pens
Sitting at his store in Dhaka’s Baitul Mukarram market, Mostofa Kamal Pasha was tinkering with a desk fountain pen that used to be a symbol of aristocracy decades back.
24 November 2023, 18:00 PM
Who wrote the most letters?
On this World Letter Writing Day, I was wondering who wrote the highest number of letters in a day. I think you might say, Rabindranath Tagore, as he is said to have written several thousand letters throughout his life. However, the record for writing the most letters in a day is held by the fam
1 September 2023, 16:18 PM
Alimuddin’s graveyard: A family legacy of helping the poor
Around 150 years ago, Haji Alimuddin’s late father established a family graveyard on an acre of land in what is now the capital’s Baridhara block-G
23 April 2023, 06:30 AM
Mega Dreams Coming True This Year
From the longest railroad bridge to the first-ever metro lines and underwater tunnel, these infrastructural undertakings with billion-dollar price tags will help Bangladesh in its bid to attain the status of a developed country by 2041.
4 January 2022, 18:15 PM
Assumed dead, woman returned to family from Nepal after 22 years
Twenty-two years ago, Ameena Khatun of Bogura’s Dhunot upazila went missing. Her three sons and a daughter could not find her and assumed that their mother was no longer alive.
6 September 2021, 12:27 PM
Moment of pride as Captain and her SI father salute each other in Rangpur
A photo of a father and daughter -- in police and army uniforms -- saluting each other went viral on Facebook yesterday, touching the hearts of netizens.
3 August 2021, 07:14 AM
Pandemic chronicles: No tourists mean no money to feed the horses of Cox’s Bazar beach
Chancing upon tourists horseback riding along the beaches of Cox’s Bazar would have been a common sight during the bustling tourist season. But not anymore.
22 July 2021, 07:36 AM
‘Mehmankhana’ shares joy of Eid with 6,000 low-income people
‘Mehmankhana’, an initiative by a group of volunteers in Dhaka’s Lalmatia, made special arrangements to feed low-income people on the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Azha.
21 July 2021, 15:21 PM
Land acquisition for park: Villagers in Barishal constructing structures to receive more money
Several hundreds of people are allegedly rushing to construct concrete structures at a village in Barishal where the government plans to acquire land for a recreational park.
21 July 2021, 09:34 AM
It’s more than just lack of food
To live off the streets of Dhaka is not merely living in hunger, it also comes with an immense lack of security. For the “tokai” -- a child waste picker -- living in the capital, hunger and malnutrition is almost the least of their concern, with much bigger dangers lurking around all the time.
10 July 2021, 18:00 PM