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IEA Report: Global coal use

Global coal consumption is set to rise to an all-time high this...
Illegal health facilities: One of them even served embassies

Located in the capital’s upscale neighbourhood of Baridhara, Wahab...
A glorious day for Dhaka's football

Sunday, November 21, 1937.

Services will need proof of income tax payment

People will require to submit the proof of submission of their...
Europe faces Covid freeze

Austria yesterday became the first country in western Europe to...
Bangladesh football: then and now

The passion is so high that they hoist the national flags of their...

A naturalist's letter to Dhaka parents

A narrow 50-meter creek running along a muddy road next to our...
An unseen world worth preserving

I remember my failed attempts to draw the convoluted coast of...
BHARAT BHAYNA

It was an evening of winter in December. The sun was hanging on top...

SUBODH'S sorrow and our tomorrow

If you find a group of pedestrians staring, transfixed by a subtle...
Bangla College: A Witness to the 1971 Genocide

Though the country was liberated on December 16, 1971, Mirpur was...
A Lighthouse of Undivided India

After its founding, Dr Rashmohan Chakravarty and Mahesh Chandra...

Amidst a delicious chaos

As soon as the clock strikes 12:00pm, an army of workers descend...
The Circus Story

Shahin is no Priyanath Bose. Nor does his outfit come anywhere near...
Alamdanga killing field could have more to say

The Pakistan army's killing field in Alamdanga of Chuadanga...

The vanishing act

It was not too long ago when aeroplane enthusiasts of the world,...
KING BHUMIBOL

No one in the history of the Kingdom of Thailand has done so much...
Jim Corbett's leopard trail

I could swear it was the same market and the same bridge where the...

Spotlight for victims

This is the beginning of the Hollywood film – Spotlight -- that won...
Unrelenting Passion

While we celebrated the under-16 women's football team's...
Marina Tabassum: An architect in search of roots

The narrow “main” roads filled with potholes and iron rods plunging...

How King Bhumibol shaped modern Thailand

King Bhumibol Adulyadej's pivotal role in modern Thailand'...
Where Fish Lovers Gather

If you are an early riser and want to take a stroll around the port...
'Architecture is no commodity'

From designing the Swadhinata Sthamba to working on a number of...

Mh370 Roundup
Into Thin Air
They want to believe!
The power of a song, the life of a maestro
Ekusher Gaan
From the Archives: The valley of sacrifice

As we prepare to commemorate the sacrifices of some brave young Bangalees in that defining year of 1952, we cannot but bear in mind some other realities. Bangalees also in other regions -- India's Barak valley and Manbhum -- have lost their lives protesting assaults on their language. How many of us are aware of such hard truths? Today, we recount those tales of commitment and valour.
From the Archives: The rise of Purulia

My Bangla, O the language of my soul// Who dares to wipe you out// It's this language// that worked for us for seven generations// And we gone to sleep in our mother's arms// And called her Ma.
1971
They never came home
Damayanti's war