Today's Paper: Latest Bangladeshi & world news & analysis

Front Page

Underground Metro: First one by 2026

Construction of the country's first underground railway may...
Dhaka into last four

The penultimate phase of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) closed...
Back to cold-war era?

President Vladimir Putin yesterday said Russia was suspending its...

Bus easier, cheaper

Once built two decades from now, the five metro rail lines costing...
Quiet, cheerful talk over tea

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's tea party at the Gono Bhaban...
DNCC Mayoral Race: Shafin's polls hope dashed

The Election Commission yesterday rejected the nomination papers of...

Back Page

Age-old craft under threat

The art of making traditional musical instruments is slowly fading...
Tortured for a good deed

A madrasa teacher and an imam of a mosque have been beaten up...
Cameroon opposition party cancels protests

The main opposition Movement for the Rebirth of Cameroon called off...
Sixth-grader 'raped' in Subarnachar

A class-VI student was allegedly raped by two men in Subarnachar...
Fake ACC men on the prowl

Rab arrested two suspected fraudsters who swindled about 500...

Reform local govt system

A commission needs to be formed to review and reform the local...
French priest jailed for sexual abuse

A French priest was Friday sentenced to five years, two without...
Asia Bibi's lawyer seeking European passport

The Pakistani lawyer who secured the acquittal of a Christian woman...
Cattle trader killed by BSF

The Border Security Force has shot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader...
Racist Photo: US governor faces calls to resign

Ralph Northam, the Democratic governor of the US state of Virginia,...

AL leader hacked to death

A group of unidentified criminals hacked an Awami League leader to...
Thai forest rangers train to tackle wildlife crime

Camo-clad rangers ambush a camp in a lush Thai national park,...
Turkey captures IS suspects on Syria border: ministry

Troops captured four Islamic State (IS) suspects in a Turkish town...
Ershad to fly home from S'pore tomorrow

Jatiya Party chief and Leader of the Opposition in parliament HM...

Business

ACI to bring 'smart' tractors

ACI Motors, a unit of ACI, is set to introduce hi-tech tractors...
Garment workers demonstrate for dues

A group of workers of a jacket exporter have been staging...
Regulating convergence of telecom technologies

The telecom sector in general has seen several new technologies...
US oil giants report strong profits

US oil giants Exxon Mobil and Chevron reported strong annual...
US job growth surges in January despite government shutdown

US job creation had another blockbuster month in January, blowing...
Japan's labour shortage hits 45-year high

There were 161 jobs for every 100 jobseekers on average last year...
Eye on e-waste

The electronic waste management industry could be a billion dollar...

RMG exports soar 36pc

Garment export to non-traditional markets grew by 36.21 percent...
Data scarcity biggest challenge to SDGs

Data scarcity has emerged as one of the major challenges in...
A third of UK firms mulling post-Brexit overseas moves

Almost a third of British companies are considering moving or...
Boeing goes bionic to roll out more Dreamliners

Boeing Co is counting on a new kind of worker to help it reach a...
Budget a trailer: Modi

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has termed the final budget of...
Japan's labour shortage hits 45-year high

There were 161 jobs for every 100 jobseekers on average last year...

Bangladesh ahead of all

Bangladesh equalled China and India to log in the highest per...
DITF now a local marketplace

Wahidul Islam, a private service holder, yesterday came to the...
Washington, Beijing all smiles on trade but doubts persist

The United States and China radiated positivity after this week&...
New e-commerce rules jolt Amazon.com in India

India's revised e-commerce rules caused widespread disruption...
Honda lifts profit forecasts

Japan's Honda Motor said Friday it was revising up forecasts...
Goldman Sachs says 1MDB scandal could hit pay for top executives

The board of Goldman Sachs Group Inc said on Friday it is...

Sports

A contentious appointment

Former captain Khaled Mashud was appointed team operations manager...
Dhoni boost for India

Former skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has regained full fitness and...
Jibon breathes life into Abahani

Nabib Newaz Jibon scored the first hattrick of his Bangladesh...
SHORT CORNER

Qatar celebrated its biggest football achievement after stunning...

Rangpur riding high

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza's Rangpur Riders look to have hit top...
Imrul included, Liton promoted

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan informed...
Young Tigers complete whitewash

Bangladesh Under-19s completed a clean sweep against England Under...
Sri Lanka face uphill task

Opener Dimuth Karunaratne was rushed to hospital after a...

Playoff line-up

The penultimate stage of the sixth edition of the Bangladesh...
Taskin out of NZ tour?

Taskin Ahmed's injury misery has continued as the right-arm...
Spurs strike late to leapfrog City

Son Heung-min struck late to fire Tottenham into second place in...
West Indies reduce England

Alzarri Joseph put aside deep personal grief to make two important...

Editorial

A despicable injustice

Arecent report by Prothom Alo describing how a raped woman in...

DNCC's plan to renovate playgrounds commendable

The Dhaka North City Corporation's plan to refurbish 26 parks...

Opinion

CPI 2018: Zero tolerance to criticism is not the answer

First launched in 1995, by the Berlin-based organisation...
Politics of posters

Level playing field” was the most popular phrase before the 11th...

Conserve haor to combat climate change impacts

Each year, the second day of February is commemorated worldwide as...

The geopolitics of National Register of Citizens in Assam

India is witnessing the chaotic process of the National Register of...

Letters

Myanmar must implement Annan Commission recommendations

The Kofi Annan Commission, led by the late former UN Secretary...

City

ACC Intervention: 2,478 tea workers get allocation dues

A total of 2,478 tea-plantation workers in Rajnagar of Moulvibazar...
First Day of SSC Exam: Wrong question papers given to hundreds of examinees

Question papers based on 2018's syllabus were provided to...
Agri minister pledges increased subsidy

Agriculture Minister Dr Md Abdur Razzaque yesterday promised to...
Road Accidents: Two college students among seven lose lives

Seven people, including two college students, were killed and...
Power lines to go underground in Sylhet

Overhead electricity lines at some key roads of Sylhet city are...
Man fatally crushed under train

A trader was fatally crushed under the wheels of a train while...
Another young life cut short

For the last 12 days, a resolute Nusrat fought hard for survival at...

Khulna Medical College: Acute teacher shortage hampers education

An acute shortage of teachers has been hampering academic and...
This parliament doesn't have moral legitimacy

BNP yesterday alleged that the 11th parliament lacks legitimacy, as...
Flooded with 'requests', but none will be entertained

Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed yesterday said no request...
'Robber' shot dead by homeowner

An alleged robber died and one of his associates was injured in an...
A vile act of cruelty

As a threat to a neighbour centring a land dispute, two persons...
Accelerating growth real challenge for new govt: EU

Appreciating Bangladesh's impressive economic performance over...
A joyous day for children

With the first Shishu Prohor (special hours dedicated to children)...

DBBL awards scholarships to 3,986 students

Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited (DBBL) yesterday at a programme awarded...
Nasim urges BNP to join parliament

Awami League (AL) presidium member Mohammed Nasim yesterday urged...
7 months on, no budget for BCC

Seven months into the current 2018-19 fiscal, Barishal City...
80th birthday of Hasan Azizul Huq celebrated at RU

Prominent fiction writer Hasan Azizul Huq's 80th birthday was...
KU math discipline's founding anniversary observed

The 20th founding anniversary of mathematics discipline at Khulna...
Only realising fines not the solution: food minister

Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder yesterday stressed on raising...
Fire in N'ganj engine oil warehouse

A fire broke out at a warehouse in Nandalalpur area under Fatullah...

Country

People in two upazilas suffer as bridge construction stalled

Around 50,000 people of 20 villages in Sadar and Jaldhaka upazilas...
100 hurt in Habiganj villagers' clash

Over 100 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups at...
Boy found dead in Netrakona

A 14-year-old boy was found dead along the Konsha river in...

Farmers upset as carrot prices fall

As farmer Hossain Ali of Bhatibari village in Lalmonirhat Sadar...
Journo beaten, cop closed

An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Detective Branch (DB) of police...

Month-long book fair begins in Pabna

A month long book fair began in the town on Friday.
Two held over question leak

Police detained two people from Jashore Sadar upazila on Friday for...

World

Venezuela tensions mount

An active Venezuelan general called on the armed forces to rebel...
Heavy rainfall to worsen situation

Once-in-a-century flooding in part of the eastern Australian state...
32 wounded in Gaza clashes

Thirty-two Palestinians were shot and wounded by Israeli troops in...
Sharif to be shifted to hospital

The Punjab government in Pakistan yesterday consented to a medical...
'Strangled democracy in Bengal'

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on...

Farewell Facebook

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Friday she would close...
Boko Haram killed 'at least 60' in NE Nigeria: Amnesty

Boko Haram killed at least 60 civilians in an attack on the remote...
Ivory Coast's Gbagbo freed by ICC

The International Criminal Court finally freed former Ivory Coast...
US, China in battle of ideology

In a move that could harden Washington's posture toward...
6.1 quake rocks Indonesia

A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian island...

2,700 indigenous languages dying

There's Ojibwe in Canada, Ami in Australia and Ayapanec in...
Egypt unveils Pharaonic tomb

Egyptian archaeologists uncovered a Pharaonic tomb containing 50...
India appoints new CBI chief

Former Madhya Pradesh Director General of Police Rishi Kumar Shukla...
BJP faces ire of allies

The Bharatiya Janta Party may increasingly find it difficult to...

Arts & Entertainment

NIAZ CHOWDHURY TULI

Cover artist Niaz Chowdhury Tuli has been designing books for the...

Sculpture exhibition concludes at CU

A six-day sculpture exhibition titled, International Celebration of...

'Debi' coming to Bioscope

The smash hit, Debi, will be available on the online streaming...

Health

Cancer: myths and realities

The 4th of February is the World Cancer Day. The theme of this year...
Parents unaware of kids' suicidal thoughts

Parents are frequently unaware of their adolescents' suicidal...

25% of antibiotic prescriptions could be inappropriate

At least a quarter of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions filled in...
Empagliflozin reduces the risk of diabetic patients cardiovascular death by 38%

A scientific seminar on ‘Novel glucose lowering medication —...

The health of refugees and migrants

Around 68.5 million people worldwide are currently displaced, with...