Dhaka Tribune

Apr 25, 2024 | dhakatribune.com | Pimple Barua

Bagha Sharif from Comilla emerged as the champion in the 115th edition of Chittagong's traditional Jabbar er Boli Khela. Referees declared him the winner at 5:30pm on Thursday after Rashed conceded defeat just 11 minutes into the wrestling match. The final wrestling match between the two contenders began in the afternoon, ultimately leading to Bagha Sharif's victory from the Homna area of Comilla. Srijan Chakma, 37, from Khagrachari, secured third place once again.

Apr 25, 2024 | dhakatribune.com | Bishwajit Deb

Land grabbers are digging a pond on government land in Jamalpur and are selling the extracted soil to brick kilns. Local people say that the land in Nirkhal Beel area under Shahbahpur Union Parishad is being dug by a group of people from dawn to dusk every day. This way, they have dug three ponds on nearly 70% of land in the area.  Locals fear that the shores of the ponds will ultimately damage the croplands during monsoon.

Apr 24, 2024 | dhakatribune.com | Syed Badrul Ahsan

It is all a question of how societies mean to deal with the past. There are the old pains, in the guise of legacies for many, which people in various countries have been trying to handle in these past many years. With a world gradually coming round to the idea that people matter, that people’s ideas matter, stories of a repressive past naturally come under the scanner. One recalls the megalomania which defined the Shah of Iran in the years between the early 1950s and his fall in 1979.

Mar 22, 2024 | dhakatribune.com | Bishwajit Deb

A case has been registered against the chairman of Doail union parishad (UP) and his associate for allegedly raping a woman village police member in Jamalpur's Sarishabari. The rape survivor filed the case in Jamalpur Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal 2 on Thursday. According to the case statement, the woman works as a Village Police member in Doail union.

Mar 21, 2024 | dhakatribune.com | Syed Badrul Ahsan

General Hussein Muhammad Ershad, chief of staff of the Bangladesh army, seized power in a coup d’etat on the morning of March 24, 1982. Coming four months after the election that had placed Justice Abdus Sattar as the new president of the country in succession to General Ziaur Rahman, the coup was a shock. And it was because there was no good reason, other than Ershad’s vaulting ambition for power, for that action by the military hierarchy to move against an elected president.