Lata Mangeshkar sang in Bangladesh at the end of the Liber...
February 7 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar performed at different places of Bangladesh immediately after the Liberation War. She recalled her mus...
Who are the conspirators?
February 7 ,2022
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By: Asif Nazrul
Accusations have long been hurled back and forth in Bangladesh’s politics. The opposition accuses the government of repression, t...
Development caught up in the cycle of poverty and corrupti...
Kazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad
Dr Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad is an economist and the chairman of Palli Karma Shahayak Foundation. The Dhak...
A Bangladesh hospital is world’s ‘best new building’
February 1 ,2022
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By: Sulayman Hossain
A rain harvesting canal crisscrosses through the hospital. [Sulayman Hossain/Al Jazeera]
A community hospital in a remote corner o...
Bangladesh: Law to constitute EC is not a full-fledged one
February 1 ,2022
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By: D. M Sakhwat Hossen
M Sakhawat Hossain
In my opinion, the law passed by the Jatiya Sangsad (national parliament) to constitute the Election Commission...
Dhaka ranks second worst in Air QuaIity Index
January 31 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Dhaka’s air was classified as ‘poor’ or ‘very unhealthy’ as the megacity ranked the second worst in Air Q...
Bangladesh’s democracy erodes amid tilt to China
January 27 ,2022
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By: Ali Riaz
Bangladesh’s exclusion from US President Joe Biden’s Democracy Summit in December 2021 was the first indication t...
Seven Bangladeshis die crossing to Italy in winter weather
January 26 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
MediterraneanReuters file photo
Seven migrants have died while attempting the perilous Mediterranean crossing from...
Our missing writers
January 26 ,2022
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By: Syed Badrul Ahsan
We, in Bangladesh, are in sore need of projecting our intellectual accomplishments before the wider world beyond our frontiers. And tha...
Syed Manzur Elahi: Legend in leather, foremost in footwear
January 26 ,2022
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By: Shuvonkar Karmokar
He joined the multinational company Pakistan Tobacco (now British American Tobacco) after he obtained his Masters degree from Dhaka Uni...
European Parliament member sends letter to EU seeking ban...
January 26 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Ivan Stefanec
European Parliament member Ivan Stefanec has sent a letter to the European Union (EU) seeking sanctions against...
BFIU seeks bank information of Muhammad Yunus
January 25 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus File photo
Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) of Bangladesh Bank has sought bank detai...
All about the US sanctions
January 25 ,2022
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By: Mohiuddin Ahmad
Seven officials, who are or were with RAB, have been placed under US sanctions. The US visas of those among them, who already had the v...
Have big businesses pocketed all the stimulus funds?
January 25 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Two years after the outbreak of coronavirus, district level businessmen have raised questions as to where the stimulus allocated by the...
Dhaka again ranks world’s most polluted city
January 24 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
The densely populated capital of Bangladesh has once again topped the list of world cities with the worst air quality, reports UNB.
On...
US trained RAB how to interrogate, behave with people: For...
January 22 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen File photo
Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen on Friday said that it is the United States that traine...
‘We live and die by it’: climate crisis threatens Banglade...
January 22 ,2022
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By: Kaamil Ahmed
Villagers on the island of Gabura are more reliant on the mangrove forest for their livelihoods, though it also protects them from ex...
We needed a law for EC formation, we’re getting one for Se...
January 22 ,2022
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By: Mahfuz Anam
Illustration: Anwar Sohel
What waited for nearly 50 years is now being implemented with super speed. Why? Until recently, the gove...
In targeted cyber-attack, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasri...
January 22 ,2022
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By: Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
File photo of Taslima Nasrin. - Facebook
In what appears to be a result of a coordinated cyber-attack on the social media acc...
First Bangladeshi-American nominated as US federal judge
January 21 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
US president Joe Biden has nominated Bangladeshi-American Nusrat Jahan Choudhury to be the first Muslim woman to serve as a federal jud...
Leahy law poses new challenge to Dhaka
January 20 ,2022
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By: Zyma Islam
For a second time in a month, Dhaka has sought more time to notify the US whether it would consent to the Leahy law, which was invoked...
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