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Artist Nazma Kabir depicts current time, nature

Artist Nazma Kabir has depicted the July-August mass upsring, city life and beauty of nature in her second solo exhibition titled Brushstrokes of Nature under way at the Safiuddin Shilpalay of Dhanmondi in Dhaka...

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Tackling fertiliser and energy bill crisis

BANGLADESH is grappling with overdue fertiliser and energy bills, driven by $800 million in unpaid dues to international suppliers and compounded by limited foreign reserves and inflation. These challenges, worsened by poor decisions of the previous government, such as costly, poorly planned projects like the Adani Power deal and the...

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Govt raises VAT to make tax-GDP ratio healthy: CA press secretary

Bangladesh interim government chief adviser press secretary Shafiqul Alam on Sunday said the government was trying to take the country’s tax-GDP ratio to a healthy state by imposing a simplified 15 per cent VAT in a bid to ensure the country’s economic growth.

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Helal Hafiz buried with state honours

Renowned poet Helal Hafiz, widely known as poet of rebellion and love, was laid to rest at the Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard at Mirpur in Dhaka on Saturday...

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Swechchhasebak League leader handed over to police

A group of BNP leaders and activists detained professor PM Shafiqul Islam, vice-president of the central committee of Bangladesh Awami Swechchhasebak League, and handed him over to police on Saturday in Rajshahi...

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Taskin, Mustafiz shine in Sharjah 

Pacers Taskin Ahmed and Mustafizur Rahman led the way as Bangladesh restricted Afghanistan to 235-9 in the first ODI at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Wednesday, despite...

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Politics of gender in post-uprising Bangladesh

GENDER’ is always a thorny topic at times of mass uprising. Historically, leaders of countless mass uprisings around the world decided to put away the gender question for dealing with later. The ‘mass’ had been typically framed as a body that does not have any gender in the common imagination, only to eventually reveal...

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Conviction warrant against Shafik Rehman withdrawn

A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Monday withdrew its conviction warrant issued for sending journalist Shafik Rehman to jail to 7-year sentence on charge of conspiracy to abduct and kill deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy...

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Shafik’s sentence suspended, Mahmudur sent to jail

The government on Sunday suspended the sentence of journalist and writer Shafik Rehman for one year while a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court sent former Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman to jail in a case filed nine years ago...

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Abolishing film censor board is a positive step 

THE interim government just announced that Bangladesh’s Film Censor Board will be discarded and turned into a Certification Board. This is a huge relief for those of us who have been vocal against all kinds of censorship not only during the Awami League regime but even prior. This decision, while long overdue, is a significant one as it acknowledges the...

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Ex-Adi SP Kafi placed on fresh remand

A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed former additional superintendent of police Abdullah Hil Kafi on a two-day remand in an attempt to murder case filed with Ashulia police station.

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Toll plaza office set on fire

A section of people, including political activists, on Thursday allegedly vandalised toll plaza offices and set fire to different places of Bhasha Shaheed Rafiq Bridge over the River Dhaleswari in Manikganj demanding stopping of the toll collection from the bridge...

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Rafiqul becomes BGMEA president, Kochi resigns

Khandoker Rafiqul Islam, managing director of Designtex Group, has been appointed president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association after SM Mannan Kochi resigned from the post on medical ground...

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CUET VC resigns amid student protest

The vice-chancellor of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology, Professor M Rafiqul Alam, resigned on Wednesday amid student protests.

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Incredible march of Royal Bengals

THEY faced the fear! They moved the mountains! They made the highest sacrifice! They ventured and accomplished a voyage so fast that none could dare set out. The entire architecture of a mafia state had been exposed by our children, the fabulous Gen Z. The whole world hears the Royal Bengals roaring, including the 7.4 million expatriate...