Anti-discrimination student movement: Citizens’ platform launched to help achieve goals
A 55-member Jatiya Nagorik Committee was formed yesterday to work towards fulfilling the goals of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement that toppled the Awami League-led government.
6d ago
Vacuum looms as teachers being coerced to quit
MA Malek, principal of Munshirhat College in Chandpur’s Matlab upazila, was on leave when he heard students were demonstrating for his resignation.
2w ago
Relief delivery is now the challenge
People wishing to distribute relief materials among the flood victims are finding it very difficult to reach remote areas due to a lack of boats.
2w ago
Flash floods: ‘We had no clue what was coming’
When Tuhin Rana heard last week that his remote village in Noakhali was being flooded, he called his parents and wife who just gave birth to a daughter and told them to stay safe.
3w ago
Millions cut off without food, power
Millions of people were still left without electricity and any means of communication, and relief materials had not reached many remote areas where families were stranded in flooded villages for days.
3w ago
‘It felt like living in a grave’
Mikel Changma, a political organiser of the United Peoples’ Democratic Front (UPDF), could not see daylight for about five years after being picked up by some plainclothes men April 9, 2019.
3w ago
Some relief in kitchen markets
Prices of daily essentials, aside from onions, have started falling in the capital’s kitchen markets over the last three days due to an increase in supply.
1m ago
Scenes from Shaheed Minar
Students from different public and private universities, colleges, and schools, started arriving in large processions to join the demonstration at Shaheed Minar.
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July 29, 2024
Protest coordinators: Detention by DB unconstitutional
The Detective Branch’s picking up of key coordinators of the quota reform protest “for the sake of security” is unconstitutional, said two legal experts and an academician.
July 24, 2024
Farhan Faiyaaz: A life we will remember
"One day, you'll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember." -- Farhan Faiyaaz's Facebook profile bio..In a chilling video footage that went viral on Facebook on Thursday, a woman was seen breaking down at the sight of a body in Mohammadpur’s City Hospital
July 23, 2024
Parts of Dhaka left charred
The six burnt cars that lie at the entrance to the Department of Disaster Management at Mohakhali can hardly give a sense of the scale of destruction inside the 11-storey building.
July 22, 2024
Prepaid gas, electricity: Users suffer amid internet outage
Thousands of consumers across the nation are facing immense difficulties in getting their cards for prepaid electricity and gas meters recharged amid the ongoing internet outage and the curfew.
July 21, 2024
DMCH morgue never been thicker with grief
The air at Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue was never this thick with grief before yesterday.
July 19, 2024
A life we will remember
“One day, you’ll leave this world behind. So live a life you will remember.” -- Farhan Faiyaaz’s Facebook profile bio.
July 17, 2024
BCL leaders beaten up, forced out of most DU halls overnight
Students make hall provosts sign notices banning politics in the halls
July 17, 2024
Bullets end life of family’s brightest star
Abu Sayed, the youngest of nine siblings, was studying in the English department at Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur.
July 17, 2024
Bullet ends life of a family’s brightest star
Abu Sayed, the youngest of nine siblings, was studying in the English department at Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur.
July 15, 2024
The poor priced out of fresh veggies
The prices of almost all vegetables have crossed the Tk 100-mark, piling pressure on the poor and the low-income segment already battling with a cost of living crisis for the past two years.
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