ON APRIL 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it 鈥楬ind鈥檚 Hall鈥�, dropping a large banner out the windows above the building鈥檚 entrance. This was a hall famously occupied by students in the 1968 protests against the Vietnam War and against Jim Crow racism in the United States...
Women and children make up at least 56 per cent of the thousands killed in the Gaza war, the UN said on Tuesday, amid controversy over the toll based on numbers from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza...
Prime Bank PLC received accolades in three categories at The Asset Triple A Awards 2023 in Bangladesh, said a press release...
RANO, Haidar Akbar Khan Rano, lives not in memory only. It鈥檚 his path to battles in the field of class war that enlivens every day and every moment. His is a living memory, diagonally opposite to death...
FOR overwhelming western political analysts, journalists, scientists, etc, the disappearance of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1990-91 was symbolised overdramatically by the physical destruction of the Berlin Wall followed by the...
Australian actor Cate Blanchett will receive a lifetime achievement award at Spain鈥檚 San Sebastian film festival in September, organisers said Thursday...
Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Wednesday afternoon issued a fresh nor鈥檞ester warning for the next 72 hours, predicting that hailstorm and thunderstorm are likely to continue for a while...
Writer Nusrat Sultana鈥檚 new collection of stories titled Nacher Shahar Rupeshwari is now available at different bookshops...
Columbia, the prestigious New York university at the heart of US campus protests against the war in Gaza, announced on Monday that it has cancelled the main ceremony for graduating students next week...
Renowned Indian photographer Raghu Rai鈥檚 solo exhibition under way at the Zainul Gallery 1 and 2 of Dhaka University gives the younger generation a glimpse into the...
Speakers at a discussion on Sunday observed that the West鈥檚 commitment to media freedom is selective...
Qatar-based network Al Jazeera on Sunday condemned as 鈥榗riminal鈥� a move by the Israeli government to ban the broadcaster from operating over its...
The sorry state of rivers is blamed, among others, on an unabated grabbing of river land by entrepreneurs and individuals enjoying political and moneyed clout. Some entrepreneurs setting up brick kilns, as a photograph with...
The High Court, in a recent verdict on a writ petition against the denial of freedom fighter status to 17 people from Kachua upazila in Chandpur, has observed...
鈥業SRAELIS are unified to eliminate this evil from the world鈥�, said prime minister Netanyahu in November 2023. 鈥榊ou must remember what Amalek has done to...
A lakeside villa built for Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels is being offered up for free to anyone willing to take on the daunting task of being responsible for its upkeep.
The United Nations said on Thursday that Gaza鈥檚 post-war reconstruction would require an international effort unseen since the aftermath of World War II, estimating it could cost up to $40 billion.....
The publications of two books written by Bir Pratik Md Shahjahan Kabir on the history of the War of Independence were launched at the Liberation War Affairs Ministry in the capital on Thursday...
Police tore down a protest encampment at the University of Texas on Wednesday, arresting more than a dozen people, as unrest over Israel鈥檚 war against Hamas in Gaza simmered on the United States campuses...
Saudi Arabia on Sunday called for regional 鈥榮tability鈥�, warning of the effects of the on-going Israel-Hamas war on global economic sentiment at the start of a...
Sikhs, a small minority in the country, celebrated the 325th Khalsa Sajna Festival, one of the most important festivals in Sikhism, with Nagar Kirtan, a religious procession synchronised with songs in Dhaka...
International Noise Awareness Day 2024 was observed in the country and the globe on Wednesday with a call to forge social resistance to fight against noise pollution to save people from being infected with various physical and mental disorders...
The historic Khapra Ward Day was observed on Wednesday at Rajshahi Central Jail and in the city paying rich tributes to seven detained communist political prisoners who were killed in 1950...
Armenia on Wednesday said it had faced modern-day 鈥榚thnic cleansing鈥� as it commemorated Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, a national holiday marking the World War I-era mass killings of ethnic Armenians by Ottoman forces...
The leaders of Britain and Germany pledged on Wednesday to back Ukraine in its war with Russia for 鈥榓s long as it takes鈥�, but the German chancellor doubled down on his refusal to deliver long-range Taurus missiles to Kyiv...
Jake Fraser-McGurk went unsold at auction but the young Australian was snapped up by Delhi Capitals as an injury replacement and has become one of the stories of the current IPL.
The Israel-Hamas war entered its 200th day on Tuesday with fears mounting of an Israeli invasion in the overcrowded south of the besieged Gaza Strip amid calls for hostages to be freed...
Eminent Rabindra Sangeet singer Rezwana Chowdhury Bannya received the prestigious 鈥楶adma Shri鈥� award from the Indian government on...
Novak Djokovic was named World Sportsman of the Year for a record-equalling fifth time at the Laureus Awards ceremony on Monday, while Spanish footballer Aitana Bonmati won individual and team awards.
Australia's David Warner says the T20 World Cup in the United States and West Indies will not see the same mammoth scores built on flat pitches in this year's Indian Premier League.