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If sent to Bangladesh, I won’t mind, says Amartya
07:11 PM, 23 Aug 2025 Saturday“I hear these days that if you speak Bengali, you are sent to Bangladesh,” Sen said on Friday. “Well, if I speak French, will they send me to France? I don’t know French, but if they send me to Bangladesh, I won’t mind. My ancestral home is in Dhaka.”
From garbage to grub: Cafés those trade trash for food to transform city
05:34 PM, 23 Aug 2025 Saturdaytrash. On a chilly winter morning in early 2025, the cafe hums with life. Steel plates clink as people tuck into steaming mounds of rice, two spicy vegetable curries, dal, roti, salad, and a tangy pickle on the side. It’s a full meal, nutritious, comforting, and completely free… if you’ve got the right currency: one kilogram of plastic waste.
From screen to cringe, stubborn persistence of hated live-action anime remakes
04:58 PM, 23 Aug 2025 SaturdayWhen Netflix announced a live-action adaptation of Solo Leveling, the smash-hit Korean anime about a powerless monster hunter who becomes humanity’s last hope, the internet erupted. Not with cheers, but with groans, memes, and a chorus of “Here we go again.”
Pak Deputy PM arrives in Dhaka
04:09 PM, 23 Aug 2025 SaturdayPakistan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar arrived in Dhaka on a two-day official visit aimed at strengthening bilateral relations on Saturday, August 23.
Looted arsenal spark election headache
03:57 PM, 23 Aug 2025 SaturdayLatest figures reveal that 1,363 weapons and 257,720 rounds of ammunition have yet to be recovered. Law enforcement agencies fear these arms could be used to incite violence and destabilise the country in the run-up to the upcoming national elections.
Workers block road at Tejgaon protesting against factory closure
02:51 PM, 23 Aug 2025 SaturdayWorkers of a garment factory blocked the road in Dhaka's Tejgaon on Saturday morning, August 23, protesting against the factory closure without prior notice...
Jubo Dal leader hacked dead in Khulna
01:31 PM, 23 Aug 2025 SaturdayA local Jubo Dal leader has been hacked to death by the miscreants in Khulna's Dumuria...
PR method possible if only law is amended: CEC
12:39 PM, 23 Aug 2025 SaturdayChief Election Commissioner (CEC) AMM Nasir Uddin on Saturday, August 23, said elections under the proportional representation (PR) system are not possible unless the law is amended...
9 of a family burnt in N’ganj fire
11:53 AM, 23 Aug 2025 SaturdayNine members of a family sustained burn injuries when a fire broke out at a house apparently from gas pipeline leak at Hirajhul village in Siddhirganj area of Narayanganj in the early hours of Saturday, August 23...
Milestone tragedy: Another student dies after a month
10:29 AM, 23 Aug 2025 SaturdayAnother victim of the fatal plane crash into Milestone School and College in Dhaka's Uttara died on Saturday morning, August 23, raising the death toll from the tragedy to 36...
Dutch FM quits over Israel sanctions deadlock
10:08 AM, 23 Aug 2025 SaturdayDutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp has resigned after failing to secure cabinet support for additional sanctions against Israel over its military onslaught in Gaza...
5 die as tour bus crashes on New York highway
08:59 AM, 23 Aug 2025 SaturdayFive people have died after a tour bus crashed on the New York State Thruway in western New York, according to New York State Police. Police said the group was returning from Niagara Falls...