Once considered a symbol of elegance, Rajshahi silk is slowly losing its lustre owing to widespread availability of counterfeit alternatives. While efforts are on to revive the lost fame, more needs t ...

Bangladesh and Malaysia are set to hold the highest-level talks in Putrajaya on Tuesday (12 August), aiming to strengthen bilateral relations and achieve tangible outcomes in multiple sectors, ...

For more than a decade, President Xi Jinping has been at the center of Chinese and global politics. Since taking over the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012, Xi has focused on ...

The BNP has full confidence in the honesty and integrity of the advisers to the interim government, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said yesterday (9 August). In a statement to the ...

As the clock ticks towards Ducsu 2025, a ban on hall-level politics has left students, parties, and the administration navigating a maze of contradictions and half-answers ...

The bodies of two fishermen, who were among eight missing after a fishing trawler capsized near the outer anchorage of Chattogram Port in the Bay of Bengal, have been recovered. The deceased were ...

The most urgent task at present is to build a social revolution. Those who engage in politics based on religion are also bourgeois and believe in private ownership. That is why those of us who want to ...

In just a year and a half, the Jatiya Party (JaPa) has split again, this time from GM Quader's leadership. The new faction has elected Anisul Islam Mahmud as chairman, ABM Ruhul Amin Howlader as ...

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He has alleged that some political parties publicly demand elections but privately seek to prevent them, fearing a BNP victory ...

A man in Chattogram's Lohagara upazila has been arrested for allegedly selling his three-month-old daughter for Tk50,000 to fund his drug addiction. The accused, identified as Miraj Uddin, 30, an auto ...

According to eyewitnesses, the incident occurred at around 8:40pm when the Padma Express, which had departed from Rajshahi, was about to enter Joydebpur Railway Station.