12+ hour, 27+ min ago   (512+ words) At 12, Nepali schoolgirl Ritu Maya Tamang has already learned how a close-knit family can be torn apart in a matter of minutes. Tamang is among more than 500 children separated from their parents by the catastrophic August 26 flooding that hit the…...

12+ hour, 20+ min ago   (256+ words) A Bangladeshi man, who was injured in firing by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) across the border in Thakurgaon’s Pirganj upazila, died yesterday while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Uttar Dinajpur district, in India’s West Bengal. The deceased was…...

13+ hour, 6+ min ago   (354+ words) A Dhaka court yesterday placed 24 leaders and activists of the Awami League and its associate bodies on 10-day remand each in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act over their alleged involvement in a procession in Dhaka’s Gulshan area on…...

12+ hour, 48+ min ago   (989+ words) The word is deceptively simple Another recent ethnographic study of women in rural Bangladesh found that tension could encompass both bodily and emotional suffering, with participants describing headaches, chest discomfort, sleeplessness, restlessness and worry about money, children, houses and the…...

20+ hour, 25+ min ago   (173+ words) The chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal today said he had received complaints that witnesses in the crimes against humanity case over the July Uprising in Chattogram were being threatened. Speaking to journalists at his office, Chief Prosecutor Md…...

14+ hour, 48+ min ago   (165+ words) Ten Bangladeshis, who went missing after a boat capsized in the Padma river in Alimnagar Ghat area of Chapainawabganj Sadar upazila today, have been rescued from Indian waters by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF). However, another person who was…...

13+ hour, 59+ min ago   (384+ words) The government will take steps to align Bangla- and English-medium curricula and establish common minimum standards for students’ basic knowledge and skills, State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Bobby Hajjaj said today. He said students should receive a common…...

19+ hour, 53+ min ago   (260+ words) A local leader of Jubo League, an organisation whose activities remain banned, was hacked to death by a group that allegedly entered his house in Muradnagar upazila of Cumilla early yesterday. The incident took place around 4:00am in Uttar Pennai village,…...

19+ hour, 43+ min ago   (353+ words) Three teachers of a madrasa in Gazipur have been arrested for allegedly beating two students and burning them with a hot iron. The arrestees are Mawlana Shoyeb Hossain, 26, director of Al-Madrasatu Darut Taqwa madrasa; Habibur Rahman, 26, of Mymensingh’s Trishal upazila;…...

16+ hour, 29+ min ago   (320+ words) The presidents of Russia and Iran were in India for talks yesterday ahead of a BRICS summit that will bring together leaders including China’s Xi Jinping, with wars, trade and energy expected to dominate the agenda. “The world today is…...