There is a common public perception that processes for government works are slow but they speed up when vested interests are involved. A recent enquiry by the Anti-Corruption Commission shows why it is so.

The country may see heavy rain and thunder today, while the sea will grow rough, as monsoon is active across the country, the Met office said.

Militant outfit JMB that struck terror across the country in 2005 has almost no strength to carry out any organised attack, but it is still a threat, counterterrorism officials believe.

When Tokuso Hamai saw the colorized version of an old black-and-white photo of a picnic held under cherry tree blossoms sometime before World War II, forgotten memories of family members, most of whom died in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, came pouring out.

Bangladesh today officially enters the world’s financial community, a much required move for the new nation’s economic development. SA Karim,

The upazila nirbahi officer of Ramgarh upazila in Khagrachhari allegedly misused his power to lease five acres of khas land illegally for a personal project.

Philippine security forces were on alert yesterday for possible reprisal attacks after arresting a key leader of an Islamic State-linked militant group accused of kidnapping and beheading several foreigners.

Migrant arrivals to Italy increased by nearly 150 percent over the past year, with the majority of those arriving from Tunisia, Italy’s interior ministry said yesterday.

The US Postal Service has sent letters to most states warning that millions of ballots cast by mail for November’s presidential election may not arrive in time to be counted, US media reports said.

A teenage girl was allegedly gang-raped by a group of miscreants on Thursday in Dinajpur, while police on Friday arrested a youth allegedly for raping a pregnant woman.

British holidaymakers returning home from parts of Europe began having to quarantine under new restrictions yesterday, as a second wave of virus infections threatened more disruption and economic chaos on the continent.

A woman was shot dead and her 10-year-old son injured after unidentified criminals opened fire in Khagrachhari’s Dighinala upazila early yesterday.

Malaysian Immigration Department has reportedly busted a “document forgery” ring and nabbed four of its members, including three Bangladeshi men.

Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will stay in Switzerland until complete recovery of his health as the guest of the Swiss government.

Russia has produced the first batch of its new vaccine for Covid-19, the Interfax news agency quoted the health ministry as saying yesterday, hours after the ministry reported the start of manufacturing.

Police arrested five people, including Abdullah Al Masud, superintendent of the Jashore juvenile correction centre, on Friday night in connection with the incident of torturing three boys of the centre to death.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged people not to fear catching the novel coronavirus from food, after Chinese testers found traces on food and food packaging.

The officer-in-charge of Lalmonirhat Sadar Police Station, whose video clip of taking bribes to record a false case went viral, was withdrawn on Thursday afternoon.

Senior diplomat Vikram Kumar Doraiswami will be the next Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh, succeeding Riva Ganguly Das.

Prime Minister Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman will leave London for Geneva on August 21 to recuperate from his gallbladder surgery. The prime minister is likely to stay in Geneva for 10 days.