BANGLADESH, a nation forged in the crucible of its 1971 liberation war, now sees its legacy of sacrifice and identity increasingly distorted into a tool for political spectacle. Over the last 16 years, the Awami League government under Sheikh Hasina has leaned heavily on emotional rhetoric and symbolic gestures to cement their authority. This reliance on...
Bangladesh Cricket Board announced a financial aid of Tk 15, 80,000 on Monday for FIDE Master Tahsin Tajwar Zia, son of late Grandmaster Ziaur Rahman for the forthcoming international chess tournaments.
Poets, writers, cultural activists and different cultural organisations on Sunday held a rally in front of Bangla Academy in Dhaka protesting at the selection of winners of the Bangla Academy Literary Award 2024...
The first ever Bangladeshi all-women team that had recently made an expedition to Himalayan peaks was honoured at Liberation War Museum on January 23....
The Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate has framed charges and issued an warrant for the arrest of film actress Pori Moni and her costume designer Junayed Karim Jimmy alias Jimmy in a case over threatening and attempting to murder businessman Nasir Uddin Mahmud....
Freedom fighter and former Bangladesh Army chief KM Shafiullah, who was the commander of sector 3 during the War of Independence of Bangladesh in 1971, died on Sunday morning...
Bangla Academy on Saturday suspended the list of winners of the Bangla Academy Literary Award 2024 amid controversies.
The historic 鈥楳ass Uprising Day鈥�, commemorating the 1969鈥檚 movement for autonomy from the then East Pakistan that eventually led to the Liberation War and the emergence of Bangladesh in 1971, will be observed on Friday in a befitting manner...
The International Criminal Court鈥檚 chief prosecutor on Thursday said he was seeking arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan over the persecution of women, a crime against humanity...
THE Trump presidency has significantly shaped the trajectory of US-Bangladesh relations, departing from traditional diplomacy and ushering in a transactional foreign policy approach. Under Trump鈥檚 leadership, US foreign policy pivoted away from multilateral engagements, focusing instead on bilateral dealings driven by immediate strategic interests...
The winners of the Bangla Academy Literary Award 2024 were announced on Thursday...
Speakers, including academics and politicians, called for national unity among all political parties and other stakeholders for bringing democratic reforms in the country in keeping with the spirit of the War of Independence and July uprising...
The Information and Communication Technology Division has updated the draft Cyber Protection Ordinance 2024 by dropping nine controversial sections related to cyberbullying and warrantless search, among others, amid criticisms...
Over one million people have now fled the Sudanese war into neighbouring South Sudan, according to the United Nations, which said the figures illustrated the scale of the unfolding humanitarian crisis...
Hamas said on Tuesday it will release four women hostages in the next swap with Israel under the terms of a fragile truce intended to bring to an end to 15 months of war in Gaza...
TECNO has been named as one of the 10 global smartphone brands of the year 2024-25 at the annual CES Global Top Brands Award and Product Innovation Awards, said a press release....
FOLLOWING every Israeli war on Gaza, numerous narratives emerge. Some claim victory for one side and defeat for the other, while others 鈥� knowingly or unknowingly 鈥� attempt to exploit the aftermath for their own purposes...
A fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war was holding Monday, following the dramatic exchange of three hostages for 90 Palestinian prisoners in an agreement aimed at ending more than 15 months of war in Gaza.
Donald Trump was sworn in for a historic second term as president on Monday, pledging a blitz of immediate orders on immigration and the US culture wars as he caps his extraordinary comeback...
The 2nd anniversary of the death of renowned writer and publisher Qazi Anwar Hossain, who created the fictional character Masud Rana and the eponymous spy-thriller series, will be observed today....
The Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services has led a remarkable transformation in the country鈥檚 ICT sector evolving from just 18 members in 1998 to over 2,650 thriving national business organisations today, said its administrator Muhammad Mehedi Hasan on Saturday...
Fifty seven more Bangladeshi nationals evacuated from war-torn Lebanon arrived in Dhaka on Thursday...
The ministry of liberation war affairs on Thursday published a gazette of 834 martyrs of the July-August mass uprising...
Russia and Ukraine have each released 25 captured prisoners of war in the first exchange of 2025, both countries said on Wednesday...
Prime minister Narendra Modi said on Wednesday the launch of two Indian-made warships and a submarine was key to its 鈥榪uest towards self-reliance鈥� as New Delhi bolsters defence against regional rivals...
鈥業n the war between Israel and Hamas, we鈥檙e on the brink of a proposal that I laid out in detail months ago finally coming to fruition,鈥� Biden said in a farewell speech at the State Department...
All set to interrogate major general (sacked) Ziaul Ahsan and former deputy commissioner of the detective branch of police鈥檚 Lalbagh zone Moshiur Rahman in the case lodged over the murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Nahar Runi...
WHILE the west subsidises carnage in Gaza and Ukraine, the east does the opposite. For instance, one potential far east flashpoint has long been the India/China border, but that鈥檚 changing 鈥� for the better, due to high-level meetings in December between political bigwigs from both countries. It was the first such confab since 2019, RT reported December...
The past two years saw average global temperatures exceed a critical warming limit for the first time as the UN demanded 鈥榯rail-blazing鈥� climate action...
The new peer-reviewed study used data from the ministry, an online survey and social media obituaries to estimate that there were between 55,298 and 78,525 deaths from traumatic injuries in Gaza by that time...