Complete index

‘Culture is not easy, it’s political as well as artistic’ · 6 September 2026
When did offensive speech become terrorism? · 6 September 2026
Thank You, Messi · 6 September 2026
Why girls continue to outpace boys in SSC results · 5 September 2026
Reform missteps behind SSC result swings: experts · 23 August 2026
Health, education spending to reach 5% of GDP by 2031 · 22 August 2026
SSC pass rate hits 19-year low · 11 August 2026
Dakhil pass rate lowest in 23 years · 11 August 2026
Teacher shortages strain government primary schools · 8 August 2026
Honouring a trailblazer · 26 July 2026
Admission to class-1: Heavy loads on tender shoulders · 21 July 2026
When calling Messi GOAT is no longer enough · 17 July 2026
UGC to track 15 years of university research funding · 14 July 2026
Draft guidelines signal new direction for primary curriculum · 13 July 2026
Govt asks pry schools to keep Zia, Khaleda, Tarique books · 6 July 2026
Government to fix learning standards in pry schools · 6 July 2026
Govt asks primary schools to keep Zia, Khaleda, Tarique books · 5 July 2026
Education outlay rises sharply · 12 June 2026
Education, health outlay to rise 63% · 11 June 2026
What does success mean if it cannot care for a mother? · 2 June 2026
Govt plans big for edn, execution doubts remain · 28 May 2026
When will these painful stories end? · 27 May 2026
Why must workers wait for Eid dues every year? · 26 May 2026
Before we called her a victim, she was a child · 20 May 2026
DCs seek PM’s intervention on drug menace · 4 May 2026
Can playing a historic speech justify repeated bail denials? · 26 April 2026
When mobile journalism crosses the line into public shaming · 20 April 2026
The promised end of mob culture has yet to arrive · 17 April 2026
The cost of politicising VC appointment · 19 March 2026
Ex-Kuet VC accused of fund misuse, illegal appointments · 21 February 2026
NCP eyes bigger role after bagging 6 seats in debut · 14 February 2026
‘Yes’ wins but... · 14 February 2026
Limit SSC exams to 5 core subjects · 11 February 2026
Public exams cut to five subjects under proposed secondary reforms · 10 February 2026
Harassment of teachers stalks public univs · 2 February 2026
Govt issues draft ordinances for broadcast, media commissions · 29 January 2026
Safety, freedom and job on young voters’ mind · 27 January 2026
Commit to equity, quality in education · 25 January 2026
Dhaka central university: Govt backtracks from merger plan · 21 January 2026
2 UAP teachers terminated amid student protests · 21 January 2026
NCP struggles to steady ship ahead of polls · 6 January 2026
NCP aims for 40 seats from Jamaat · 4 January 2026
Pry students get books on first day of yr · 1 January 2026
Is the NCP becoming what it once rejected? · 29 December 2025
A party of new hope looks like the old guard · 28 December 2025
Education in 2025: A year of strikes, setbacks and disruptions · 26 December 2025
Dipu’s ashes on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway are gone. The stain on our souls remains. · 24 December 2025
Is selective amnesia the price of a new Bangladesh? · 19 December 2025
Only political will can break cycle of violence · 9 December 2025
Put rights issues at the heart of polls pledges · 9 December 2025
There's no neutral observer in digital violence · 4 December 2025
'Have you seen my babies?' · 3 December 2025
We need a climate solution built on people, not projects · 23 November 2025
What price are we paying for ‘progress’? · 28 October 2025
Inside colleges where no one passed · 21 October 2025
Rucsu too goes to Shibir · 17 October 2025
Teachers with no schools to go to · 4 October 2025
Rucsu in chains: How a university scripted its own crisis · 25 September 2025
Total literacy elusive after Tk 4,000cr spent · 8 September 2025
How weaponising murder cases is shielding real perpetrators · 1 September 2025
Education left behind · 10 August 2025
Is the uprising unravelling? · 30 July 2025
July uprising: A movement that united campuses and classrooms · 29 July 2025
Student union election: DU, JU set for Sept polls, other univs lag behind · 20 July 2025
SSC pass rate plunges to a 16-year low · 10 July 2025
When did we stop being human in the pursuit of a headline? · 2 July 2025
Appointment by allegiance · 1 July 2025
Technical education hit by teacher shortage, falling enrolment · 27 June 2025
Mob violence now alarmingly routine · 24 June 2025
Is Mahmudul's arrest a message? · 22 June 2025
Are we hurtling towards mob journalism? · 15 June 2025
July Warriors: Patients who refuse to be just patients · 13 June 2025
From the streets to the stands: Football reclaims Bangladeshi hearts · 10 June 2025
A recurring script is enough to prove the pattern · 7 June 2025
Who in the world holds the strings in this republic · 4 June 2025
Education, health outlays see slight rise · 2 June 2025
Cowardice, plain and simple · 29 May 2025
Let's MoPE! · 28 May 2025
When protest turns into a mob · 21 May 2025
Search committee formed after posts already filled · 19 May 2025
A place of hope, healing for cancer patients · 17 May 2025
‘Concerns genuine, but reforms need planning’ · 28 April 2025
A milestone to treasure · 26 April 2025
Pry, secondary schools: Millions of students still without textbooks · 5 March 2025
July uprising: AL govt, oppositions used children as pawns · 22 February 2025
Mohammadpur 'gunfight' follows a disturbingly similar script · 21 February 2025
Are they even trying? Or have they decided not to act? · 18 February 2025
Set up waiting list system to recruit teachers · 17 February 2025
July Uprising: State forces, AL perpetrated gender-based violence · 15 February 2025
Why not banish Aynaghars? · 13 February 2025
Primary education: PECE, similar tests should be scrapped · 10 February 2025
Renaming education cadre proposed · 7 February 2025
44th-47th BCS exams: PHQ for halting recruitment to 310 police posts · 2 February 2025
How many more have to die in custody? · 2 February 2025
You promised change, where is it? · 31 January 2025
UGC considers ‘July 36 univ’ for seven govt colleges · 30 January 2025
Will the mob decide Bangladesh’s future? · 29 January 2025
Public universities: Admission woes deepen for students · 25 January 2025
Govt's decision to release top criminals proving costly · 22 January 2025
Arresting scapegoats will hardly make a difference · 18 January 2025
Students suffer as NCTB fails to deliver books · 17 January 2025
Police brutality on protesters: A betrayal of the July uprising · 16 January 2025
Removal of word ‘adivasi’: Indigenous group attacked at NCTB; 20 hurt · 15 January 2025
Shakib Al Hasan: An icon we once adored, now fading into memory · 14 January 2025
Textbook fiasco: End excuses, act now · 9 January 2025
When students become guinea pigs · 9 January 2025
Wait for textbooks gets longer · 1 January 2025
Primary, Secondary level: Major changes coming to Bangla, English textbooks · 30 December 2024
Textbook distribution runs into a snag · 26 December 2024
Partisan link still rules the game · 13 December 2024
From driver fatigue to political barriers: What’s making the roads deadlier? · 29 November 2024
5 educational institutions: Academic lives of 40,000 in disarray · 28 November 2024
University admission: Cluster system’s fate hangs in balance · 27 November 2024
Leading univs withdrawing from cluster system · 24 November 2024
Textbooks to feature July uprising · 14 November 2024
DMP launches app to identify accident hotspots · 4 November 2024
Free textbook distribution: Race against the clock for govt · 28 October 2024
76 job seekers still await approval · 26 October 2024
HSC, equivalent exams: Demand for auto pass ‘unacceptable’ · 23 October 2024
This year’s HSC examinees have tough times ahead · 19 October 2024
Madrasa Board tops results with 93.40pc pass rate · 15 October 2024
HSC pass rate drops, number of GPA-5 rises · 15 October 2024
Durga Puja, a festival of faith and togetherness · 11 October 2024
Ban on poly bags: Mixed reactions in some shops · 1 October 2024
Textbooks for class-4 to 9: ‘Exaggerated’ historical info to be struck off · 20 September 2024
We cannot let mobs be the judge, jury and executioner · 19 September 2024
UGC chair, five new VCs appointed · 5 September 2024
Administrative Vacuum: Universities struggle to restart classes · 18 August 2024
Public univs ‘reopen’ today · 17 August 2024
Three VCs of public universities resign · 7 August 2024
Students step up to fill the vacuum · 7 August 2024
Closure of schools, universities: Academic calendars in total disarray · 31 July 2024
Univ teachers to carry on strike today · 13 July 2024
A look back at 2018 quota protests and Toriqul’s tale · 12 July 2024
Can we trust PSC with the recruitment of best young minds? · 9 July 2024
Gazette delay leaves candidates in limbo · 3 July 2024
New curriculum, same old craze for guidebooks · 2 July 2024
School Exam Marks: 65pc for written part, 35pc for practical · 1 July 2024
VC, Teachers feud at CoU: Stalemate leaves students in limbo · 4 June 2024
UGC bans future recruitment at CMU · 3 June 2024
New School Curriculum: Implementation limps along · 29 May 2024
They needed to sanction someone and picked me · 21 May 2024
Spice prices shoot up by 20 percent · 17 May 2024
Secondary MPO schools must pay admission fees to govt · 15 May 2024
Alarming failures · 14 May 2024
Girls ace SSC again · 12 May 2024
Lowest number of GPA-5 in 12 years · 12 May 2024
Govt again moves to extend primary education up to class-VIII · 5 May 2024
Schools, Colleges: A reopening that defies heatwave and logic · 28 April 2024
Parents worried as schools reopen amid heat alert · 27 April 2024
Traffic Alert: An information hub improving lives · 14 April 2024
Women protected by women · 8 April 2024
Non-payment of tax: NBR freezes bank accounts of 12 pvt univs · 1 April 2024
Sexual harassment at JnU: For 2yrs, suspect protected, victim tormented · 26 March 2024
When speaking up is a ‘crime’ · 17 March 2024
Schools to stay open in Ramadan · 12 March 2024
Confusion over school closure in Ramadan · 11 March 2024
Jagannath University rife with financial irregularities: UGC report · 11 March 2024
A walk down perfume lane · 8 March 2024
Is Mitford’s fragrance fading? · 8 March 2024
‘Wish it lasted a bit longer’ · 2 March 2024
‘We are alive thanks to them’ · 1 March 2024
‘Thanks to them, I am alive today’ · 1 March 2024
Ekushey Boi Mela likely to get new venue · 28 February 2024
A day to be cherished forever · 24 February 2024
Celebrating Bangla: Ekushey Boi Mela sees huge turnout · 21 February 2024
Love resides here · 14 February 2024
JU failed to make campus women-friendly · 13 February 2024
Falgun fever captures Ekushey Boi Mela · 13 February 2024
Where love for books begins · 11 February 2024
Audiobooks: when stories come alive · 10 February 2024
A palace by the river · 9 February 2024
One generation to next, Humayun Ahmed lives on · 6 February 2024
A tapestry of colours and cultures · 3 February 2024
Metro sees huge crowd as book fair kicks off · 1 February 2024
Biggest event for booklovers returns · 1 February 2024
Banglabazar: All things book · 26 January 2024
Restoring Dhaka’s lost past with ‘Dhaka Gate’ · 24 January 2024
Metro at night! · 20 January 2024
Parties in parliament second lowest since 1991 · 14 January 2024
19 women triumph with higher turnout · 9 January 2024
DU BCL president poses with ballot paper with vote for boat · 7 January 2024
‘BCL men’ enter polling booths in DU centre with food for agents · 7 January 2024
Ballot Stuffing Attempt: 2 Star reporters cornered for bearing witness · 7 January 2024
Memes: More than just a laugh · 19 December 2023
HSC pass rate, GPA-5 dip · 26 November 2023
Technical edu board outperforms others · 26 November 2023
UGC member urges teachers to ensure 80pc turnout in polls · 11 November 2023
Three-day blockade: Low turnout at schools · 31 October 2023
Empowering mothers in Gaibandha · 30 September 2023
Govt move to check prices falls flat · 15 September 2023
Dhaka’s educational heritage · 8 September 2023
Academic activities in peril · 27 August 2023
AL activists, police take over some BNP sit-ins · 29 July 2023
SSC & Equivalent Exams: Pass rate hits 13-year low · 28 July 2023
Pass rate, GPA-5 lowest in 5 years · 28 July 2023
‘We’re left with no choice’ · 23 July 2023
Registration of 2 Parties: Questions raised over EC’s picks · 17 July 2023
Primary schools in Thakurgaon, Nilphamari: Lack of fund, resources hinder progress · 24 June 2023
Braving scorching heat in the line of duty · 7 June 2023
Cluster Admission Tests: 22 univs lag behind, have vacant seats · 7 May 2023
Four teachers appointed against two vacant posts · 5 May 2023
The tale of holiday sufferings · 24 April 2023
Public univ admission: Single entry exam from next year · 4 April 2023
Patients find strength in shared devotion · 1 April 2023
Jalladkhana Killing Field: A haunting reminder of the tragic past · 30 March 2023
Revisiting memories of struggle and sacrifice · 27 March 2023
A journey through Bangladesh’s struggle for independence · 25 March 2023
A village of mosques · 17 February 2023
Cultivating reading habits since 2001 · 17 February 2023
Where basic amenities remain elusive · 17 February 2023
HSC pass rate falls · 8 February 2023
A village of crabs, in Dhaka! · 3 February 2023
Watching planes their only entertainment · 3 February 2023
Plight of DNCC wards 52, 53: Life seemed better under union parishad · 3 February 2023
Under the dirty water, there’s a ward · 23 January 2023
NCTB textbooks: Never-ending cycle of controversies · 19 January 2023
Radio Silence: Bangladesh Betar’s external service inoperative for three years · 14 January 2023
‘I’ll pass this story to my children’ · 28 December 2022
Satrasta-Tejgaon Road: Will it finally be free of congestion? · 27 December 2022
A good initiative, but still a long way to go · 26 December 2022
Study Abroad: students suffer as banks reluctant to open files · 13 December 2022
Many suffer at police checkpoints in city · 10 December 2022
The checkpoint chronicle continues · 9 December 2022
No one should face such a horrible fate · 3 December 2022
Of OMS queues and desperation · 1 December 2022
Allegations mount against Rajshahi BCL top brass · 15 September 2022
A bad day to catch a flight · 14 September 2022
Tough day for Dhaka dwellers · 13 September 2022
Manarat University: Govt reconstitutes trustee board over ‘militancy links’ · 8 September 2022
Atiqul Islam made chairman of Manarat Int’l University Board of Trustees · 8 September 2022
Now school supplies get pricier · 8 September 2022
BCL committees at 3 Public UNIVS: Rogues rewarded · 7 September 2022
Ride-sharing riders in trouble · 6 August 2022
Roni calls off protest for now · 25 July 2022
The one who pledged to keep fighting · 25 July 2022
Road-crash tragedies stalk his family · 2 February 2022
Truck kills RU student on campus · 1 February 2022
Hasan Azizul Huq laid to rest · 16 November 2021
Desperation over accommodation · 4 October 2021
Where will all the students stay? · 28 September 2021
Lockdown leaves students hanging · 15 June 2021
NBR seeks bank info on former RU VC · 27 May 2021
Reckless recruitment racks up RU budget · 20 May 2021
Ex-RU VC’s Tenure: Recruitment rules violated freely · 7 May 2021
All for money? · 6 May 2021
BCL men to get top priority for univ jobs · 20 January 2021
Keep dorms open during exams · 25 December 2020
RU teachers demand registrar’s removal · 17 December 2020
Recruitment Suspension: RU will want to know why · 15 December 2020
Reports of Malpractices: Recruitment at RU halted · 14 December 2020
Innocent RU student in jail for 2 months · 25 January 2020
Assault on Polytech Institute Principal: Police identify 12 BCL men who were ‘directly involved’ · 4 November 2019
Assault on Polytech Principal: BCL men wanted to pass without examination · 3 November 2019
Series set for Bangladesh women’s teams · 4 July 2019
RU student orgs continue to hold events 'ignoring' ban · 27 February 2019
No dormitories for RU IBA students · 21 February 2019
Hope revived for student union polls · 1 February 2019
Physical education limping at RU · 25 January 2019
Hope of Rucsu polls this year getting stronger · 18 January 2019
Textbook-laden truck plunged in Tangail · 1 December 2018
7 hurt as BCL men attack RU protesters · 1 December 2018
To screen or not to screen · 29 November 2018
Fuelling creativity · 22 September 2018
Students, colleagues seek fair probe · 9 September 2018
'Circus Circus' staged at RU Auditorium · 10 April 2018
“Sampan Naiya” and “Putulnatya” staged at RU · 6 April 2018
RU website: A window into hollow · 17 March 2018
MCQ Blunder: RU to punish two teachers · 7 December 2017
Money matters! · 24 October 2017
Traffic jam shatters dreams of hundreds of RU admission seekers · 22 October 2017
RU administrative work at a standstill · 9 April 2017
RU student returns lost cash to owner · 6 April 2017
RU bus crisis drags on · 2 March 2017
10th Convocation: RU puts graduates in uncertainty · 18 February 2017
RU sees more int'l students · 17 February 2017
Pace of investigation frustrates family · 21 January 2017
RU convocation reg fee too high? · 9 November 2016