Holiday

METROPOLITAN

Students put seven days ultimatum

China looks to smooth polls in Bangladesh

Rain exposes risks for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar

Bangladesh boys selected to for Friendship Football in Russia

CPB, SPB want parliament dissolved before election

NHRC worried by murders, kidnappings in CHT

EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL SCHEMERS AGAINST SHEIKH HASINA’S DECISION? Fishing in muddy water: Conspirators must be punished

INTIFADA ON GAZA BORDER Palestinian unarmed youths facing Israeli killers

VIEW POINT 1000 OFFICIALS SUPERSEDED Why does govt. waste Tk.100 crore on OSDs?

COMMENTS

Why debate on Army deployment in BD polls?

Where the international front against Venezuela is heading

INTERNATIONAL

US-British-French missile strikes on Syria heighten danger of catastrophic war

SINCE WORLD WAR II Japan activates first Marine brigade

BUSINESS

INCOMELESS EMPLOYMENT SITUATION Real income declines, Banking sector orphan, capital flight fears in election year: CPD

ARASTOO KHAN RESIGNS IBBL appoints Nazmul Hasan as new chairman

Midland Bank raises syndicated loan of Tk 598m

Banks donate Tk 163cr to PM’s relief fund

EU complains to WTO over US high tariffs

Blacklisted millers to supply rice again to govt stock

INFOTECH

WORLD’S BIGGEST ‘MEGATROPOLIS’ China builds a city larger than Britain!

DATA TAKEN WITHOUT CONSENT Facebook’s Zuckerberg is sorry

CULTURE

Cultural troupes celebrate Pahela Baishakh

Czech-American film director Milos Forman dies

Havana celebrates nearing 500 years with cultural spectacle

Gangster brags on facebook after shooting Punjabi singer

MISCELLANY

The Saudi export of ultra-conservatism

AVIATOUR

After a decade, NOLA’s historic Jung Hotel re-opens

Record level of guest satisfaction for Costa Cruises

New series, films to boost Russian tourists’ attention

LETTERS

Rohingya Muslims repatriation: Myanmar doesn’t want to solve the crisis

LAST WORD

Asifa Bano’s rape and murder sparks nationwide outrage in India

‘India’s darkest hour’: Ex-senior officials condemn Indian gov’t over Muslim girl rape case

Kashmir tense: No Urs for a Sufi poet in grieving valley