IN 2009-2010, I was on research leave from the University of Dhaka to do a postdoctoral stint at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. I was going to work on a project titled 鈥楩rom Rokeya to Taslima: Trends in Muslim Feminism in South Asia鈥� 鈥� a topic related to my doctoral research completed at the University of Portsmouth, UK, in 2007 under the supervision of...
A collection of poems titled 鈥極simer Vela鈥� was launched at Bishwo Shahitto Kendro on Wednesday.
A youth died of electrocution at Mirerhat of Hathazari in Chattogram on Wednesday...
At least two more youths were arrested on Wednesday over hacking a couple with machetes at Uttara in the capital Dhaka at about 9:00pm on Monday...
Two days of fighting between Sudanese rivals have forced an estimated 10,000 families to flee a famine-hit displacement camp in the Darfur region, the UN migration agency said on Wednesday...
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he has ordered the firing of all remaining US attorneys nominated by his predecessor Joe Biden...
THE protests that thousands of people, mostly of Gaibandha, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari and Rangpur have held are a rightful reaction to India鈥檚 unilateral withdrawal of water of the River Teesta which causes a gradual desertification of Bangladesh鈥檚 north. The people have sat in for two days on the river bank in Lalmonirhat, marched along a four-kilometre stretch...
The Secondary School Certificate and its equivalent examinations are going to start on April 10 and conclude on May 22 across the country as per a revised routine published by the Inter-Education Board Examination Regulatory Committee on Wednesday...
The entire gang involved in the machete attack on a couple in Uttara has been arrested, according to the deputy police commissioner of the Uttara Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Rownak Jahan...
The Chittagong Port Authority on Tuesday launched terminal operating system to reduce overall cost of handling goods and containers of ships arriving and departing from the port and manage operations in automated manner....
A faction of the Students Against Discrimination in Chattogram has held a demonstration rejecting three newly announced committees, with over 50 members resigning and declaring the committees unacceptable....
The Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday said that it had arrested Md Anwar who is accused of running drug trades, mugging and extortion for a long time, sometimes involving murders, in the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur and its surrounding areas...
The auction of 24 luxury vehicles imported by former lawmakers of the ousted Awami League under a duty-free quota was postponed on Monday due to poor response and low bids...
Students of Chittagong University staged a torch procession on Monday, demanding the resignation of the proctor over controversial remarks and the revocation of what they called unjust expulsion of nine female students...
Five people were killed and 10 others injured in a collision between a pickup van and a covered van on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Feni on Monday night.
A group of students at Chittagong University staged a demonstration on Sunday, demanding the withdrawal of the expulsion order against nine of the 12 female students recently penalised by the administration.
Tahsan Khan and Tasnia Farin Inaugurated MICLO鈥檚 new showroom in Chattogram on Thursday, said a press release.
The three-day international conference organised by the electrical and computer engineering faculty of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology titled International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Engineering concluded at the CUET in Chattogram on Friday....
A two-day 鈥�4th Bangladesh Remittance Fair 2025鈥� will be held in New York on April 19-20 to increase remittance flow from the USA to Bangladesh.
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti on Saturday celebrated its 53rd founding anniversary renewing the call to implement the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord as hill people鈥檚 fate remained unchanged even after signing of the accord in 1997.
Ruben Amorim on Friday warned that Manchester United must sell players to fund the rebuilding of his under-performing team because of financial restrictions.
Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman on Saturday claimed that the killings of 74 people including 57 army officers during the 2009 BDR mutiny were part of an international conspiracy aiming at prolonging the rule of the then Awami League government.
The unloading of 11,000 tonnes of boiled rice imported from India began at Chattogram Port on Friday....
Bangladesh Bank officials on Thursday strongly condemned attack on Muhammad Badiuzzaman Didar, administrator of Nagad...
British American Tobacco shares slumped on Thursday as it warned of tougher regulatory headwinds in Australia and Bangladesh after a sizeable writedown in Canada dampened its return to profit...
A Liberian flag-ship carrying 52,500 tonnes of wheat from Argentina arrived at the Chattogram port on Wednesday night...
The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection on Thursday fined two distributors in Chattogram after it had found evidence of hoarding bottled soya bean oil amid an inadequate supply of the commodity.聽
A Dhaka court on Thursday sent Shahadat Farazi Sakib, a recently expelled member of Jatiya Nagorik Committee, to jail over the attack on a group of national minority students in front the National Curriculum and Textbook Board office in Motijheel on January 15.
Captain Jos Buttler on Wednesday said England can be a 鈥榙angerous team鈥� in the upcoming Champions Trophy despite their 3-0 ODI whitewash in India.
Last year was the deadliest for journalists in recent history, with at least 124 reporters killed 鈥� and Israel responsible for nearly 70 per cent of that total, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Wednesday...