• Failure to have elected local govt is failing democracy
  • Indictment of incumbents’ predilection for rhetoric
  • Al Jazeera and US foreign policy
  • Is India really our friend?
  • A message written in blood that no one wants to hear
  • The greatest show on earth
  • Art should not be only Dhaka based
  • Seminar held, Nimajjon staged
  • Liquidity crisis, stock crash hit H1 profits of banks, NBFIs
  • India’s Lilliput misses another deadline to pay Bangladesh exporters
  • ICRC urges respect for humanitarian laws in Syria
  • N Korea floods kill 169, leave 400 missing
  • Mohan does better but feels bitter
  • ‘Come on Andy’
  • Chinese, British companies escape World Bank sanction
  • Indian govt to move bill for ratification
  • Khaleda asks all parties to unite
  • AL to initiate talks with parties: Hanif
  • Purpose not to be served unless reports published: citizens
  • DLA for third political platform
  • Eid shopping spree marks weekends
  • CU deans’ election tomorrow
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Eid shopping spree marks weekends

Shoppers fill the inside of New Market on Saturday as Eid-ul-Fitr nears. — Sanaul Haque
Shopping spree reached its peak on Friday and Saturday at the capital’s largest shopping hub Gawsia Market, New Market, Chadni Chawk, Elephant Road areas where people of different ages and income group gathered to buy outfits and... Full story

CU deans’ election tomorrow

The election of deans of Chittagong University will be held tomorrow. Candidates of pro-Awami League ‘Yellow Panel’ and BNP- Jamaat-backed ‘White Panel’ are contesting in the election for the posts of seven... Full story

Rly starts advance ticket sale today

People queue up at Kamalapur Railway Station in the capital for advance Eid tickets on Saturday, a day before the authorities announced they would start selling tickets today. — Sony Ramany
The Bangladesh Railway is going to start selling advance tickets for Eid-ul-Fitr today. Meanwhile, huge crowd was seen at the Kamalapur railway station in the capital on Saturday. Some bus operators will also start advance tickets sale within the next... Full story

Drug vendors enforce strike in Rajshahi

The drug vendors in Rajshahi city enforced indefinite strike as mobile court had fined a medical store on Saturday. Sources said that consumer rights department conducted a mobile court in... Full story

4 held in Ctg, 1200 Yaba tablets recovered

The Chittagong Metropolitan Police and the Rapid Action Battalion 7, in separate drives in the city, arrested four peddlers and recovered 1200 Yaba tablets from their possession. The RAB 7 arrested Anwar Shah, 25, and... Full story

Tenants demand implementation of house rent control law

Tenants and human rights activists at a human chain in Barisal on Saturday demanded amendment and implementation of house rent control act and expanding public housing to control rent hike. Full story

Rain or thundershowers likely

Light to moderate rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely at a few places over Khulna, Barisal, Chittagong, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Rangpur and Dhaka divisions till 6:00pm today. Full story


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