Last year, 85 women and girls from ethnic minority communities, 44 from the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and 41 from plain land, became victims of violence, according to "Human Rights Report 2015 on Indigenous Peoples in Bangladesh".

The High Court yesterday upheld a Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission (BTRC) decision to seek Tk 30.09 crore from Ekushey Television (ETV) for using its broadcasting frequency.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) requested all the business centres and individuals to keep signboards or nameplates in sizes that have been approved

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday asked the prosecution to submit the formal charges, if any, on May 4 against five Moulvibazar men for allegedly committing crimes against humanity and genocide during the 1971 Liberation War.

Students of different public and private universities in Bangladesh, for the first time, will get internship opportunities

The qulkhwani of Manzoor Ahmed, former captain of Kurmitola Golf Club, will be held after the Maghrib prayers today

BNP yesterday said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was trying to give a wrong impression to the people by distorting Khaleda Zia's recent remarks about the next national election.

China has expressed its willingness to cooperate with other countries in helping Bangladesh build its first deep-sea port at any

Bringing to life the opulent, sometimes scandalous, private lives of the Mughals of India, Private Life leaves no detail untouched: their food, drink, clothes

DR. Mohit Kamal, a renowned psychiatrist, mostly known for his psychological novels, is a patron of literature. He has authored a novel titled Dukhu out of his great admiration of the personal and literary life of our national poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam.

Depoeticized Rhapsody is, oxymoronically speaking, a poetic endeavor that aims at delineating the constantly changing modern lifestyle. Justifiably enough,

Reviewing a book that traces the history of Bangladesh from ancient times in just over 400 pages has been, for me, a formidable experience, especially since a great deal of material has been covered within those pages. Almost as a fiendish twist, for a fairly lengthy portion, the book is as much a Reader's Digest version of Indian history as it is of Bangladesh. However, when one considers the subtitle of the book, A Subcontinental Civilisation, one can acknowledge

It is impossible to get nomination for polls without money as the system has allegedly become a trade in exchange for money, said Brig Gen (retd) M Sakhawat Hussain, a former election commissioner, yesterday.

Students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) yesterday demanded extension of the recruitment age

This emptiness does not fill

I have built home in the air

The call to prayer wakes Sarah up every morning. There are at least three mosques surrounding her apartment and each of them take

Former Education Secretary Md Nazrul Islam Khan has been made curator of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Eminent cosmologist and Chittagong University's (CU) emeritus Prof Jamal Nazrul Islam will remain alive through his

A five-year-old boy was killed when a three-wheeler ran him over while he was crossing the Chapainawabganj-