1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (249+ words) A six-member Assam Assembly delegation will visit Himachal Pradesh to study the state’s measures to control its monkey population, including its long-running sterilisation programme. According to an official communication issued from the Parliamentary Affairs Department of Assam, the delegation comprises…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (826+ words) I wake up in the morning and open my phone. Facebook, YouTube, newspaper headlines – everywhere it’s the same news. “10 pieces of a woman’s body found in a sack in Adabor Police Station.” “A woman’s dead body found in Kashiani, Gopalganj....

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (652+ words) Two Bangladesh Army soldiers were killed and a captain was seriously injured on Wednesday (September 9) after a tank shell exploded during a field-firing exercise at the Hathazari Field Firing Range in Chittagong. The deceased have been identified as soldiers Abu…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (356+ words) India and Bangladesh on Monday reaffirmed their commitment to advancing bilateral cooperation with a forward-looking outlook, stressing mutual trust and shared benefits as the basis for strengthening relations between the two neighbouring countries. The issue came up during a meeting…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (1460+ words) The most disturbing question in the Rangpur quadruple-murder investigation may no longer be simply who killed Ganapati Chakraborty, his wife Pritilata, daughter Agami and 12-year-old son Aayush. It is whether the police narrative that emerged immediately after the bodies were…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (548+ words) What was passed off to local resort owners as a routine setup for a foreign construction firm has been exposed as a massive, dark cyber-fraud hub operating right along the picturesque Marine Drive of Cox’s Bazar. A major multi-agency raid…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1569+ words) That argument remains valid, but the world in which the September 24 summit will take place has changed sufficiently to require a significant qualification. The most consequential development has not occurred in the Pacific. It has occurred in the Middle East....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (669+ words) The Bangladesh Detective Branch, probing the sensational August 19 quadruple murder at Daspara in Rangpur city, recently obtained the sale deed for the land on which retired school teacher Ganapati Chakraborty had built a three-storeyed house slightly over four years ago....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (543+ words) A second woman has emerged as a shadowy figure in relation to the August 19 murder of the four-member Chakraborty family of Rangpur city’s Daspara/Mechhuapara neighbourhood even Bangladesh’s Detective Branch policemen continue to pursue dead-ends in the case. Another woman,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1364+ words) The catastrophic flash floods that have struck the Nepal–China border region this week should be treated not merely as a humanitarian tragedy, but as a powerful warning for the entire Himalayan region. The disaster, apparently triggered by a glacial…...