Technology
VEON pledges $250 million and seeks $1 billion for Bangladesh's digital economy
At a New York investor meeting on 28 September, Banglalink's parent VEON committed $250 million, set a $1 billion investment target and…
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Education
100 teachers to receive national honour on World Teachers' Day
The Distinguished Teacher Honour grows from 12 recipients to 100, covering educators from primary schools to universities
Opinion
Nateshwar and Raghurampur deserve lasting protection
Excavations since 2010 have revealed Buddhist monasteries and stupas from the age of Atish Dipankar. Conservation, legal protection and open research must…
Opinion
Record remittances should build Bikrampur's businesses, not only its houses
Expatriates sent a record USD 35.56 billion home in 2025 to 2026. With trusted local structures, more of that money can create…
Opinion
Bikrampur's young people need practical digital skills, not just certificates
National data show many educated young Bangladeshis cannot find work. Munshiganj can use its schools, digital centres and diaspora professionals to turn…
Entertainment
Alauddin Ali, the Tongibari-born composer behind thousands of film songs
Born in a village in Tongibari, Munshiganj, Alauddin Ali composed music for more than 300 films and won the National Film Award…
Technology
Fiber@Home brings Bangladesh's first L-band optical network online with Nokia
The nationwide fibre operator says adding L-band to its backbone doubles usable spectrum on existing cables, with channels of up to 1.2…
International
Bangladeshi students win bronze at World Robot Olympiad Asia-Pacific championship
Team Blueprint, three Bangladeshi university students, placed third in the Future Engineers category at the WRO Asia-Pacific Open Championship 2026 in Hyderabad,…
Entertainment
Banshbari's musical family: Dhir Ali Miah and three generations from Tongibari
One family from a village in Tongibari, Munshiganj, produced radio pioneers, film composers and a band-era hitmaker. Its best known early figure…
Entertainment
S. D. Burman at 120: the Comilla-born composer who carried Bengal's folk tunes to film
Sachin Dev Burman was born in Comilla on 1 October 1906. On his 120th birth anniversary, a look at how his East…
Entertainment
Atul Prasad Sen, the South Bikrampur poet who brought the ghazal to Bengali song
Born in Dhaka in 1871 to a family from Magor village in South Bikrampur, the lawyer and songwriter Atul Prasad Sen became…
Education
Albert Victoria Jatindra Mohan school: 134 years of educating girls in Munshiganj
Founded in 1892 as the Albert Victoria Higher English School, today's Albert Victoria Jatindra Mohan Government Girls' High School in Kortgaon is…