Although the country witnessed a significant urban growth in the last few decades, there was an absence of proper transport planning and institutions in the urban transport sector, causing indiscipline and mismanagement there, experts and activists said yesterday.

Kaniz Fatima Binte Alam, a doctor, took Tk 48.50 lakh home loan at 8.5 percent interest in October last year from a lender with expertise in financing homes.

A weigh station along Dhaka-Chittagong highway was vandalised and the highway blocked for hours allegedly by transport workers yesterday.

An Argentine football club has recreated the Sistine Chapel on the ceiling of its gymnasium, with Diego Maradona as God, Lionel Messi as Adam and a host of angels that include Mario Kempes, Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Batistuta.

The UN human rights chief yesterday slammed Israel's deadly reaction to protests along the Gaza border as "wholly disproportionate", backing calls for an international investigation.

Indian and Pakistani forces exchanged fire across the tense, heavily militarised Kashmir border yesterday, leaving eight civilians and an Indian soldier dead, officials said.

It was the year 2010. After the demise of her parents, six-year-old Nargis Akter found shelter in one of her relatives' house. Yet, 'shelter' was the least of what she had gotten. The ill-fated little girl was compelled to do laborious household work, and often faced physical abuse from those she was living with.

Dhaka would not be deluged in 2018. This was the promise the local government minister made last year. But his words did not translate into action.

More than 100 people are feared dead after a Boeing 737 airliner crashed and exploded near Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuban state media said yesterday.

The Chittagong Custom House and a private firm named Five-R Associates sent two separate rejoinders to our report titled “Scanning at Ctg Port: Govt settles for costlier option” published on May 3. We are publishing the unedited versions of the rejoinders along with our replies.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will meet at Visva-Bharati in Santiniketan on May 25 at the inauguration of Bangladesh Bhaban.

Every four years some economists turn their talent for making predictions about global finance to the topic of the World Cup. Will Iceland or Panama lift the trophy this year, or perhaps hosts Russia?

Lawmakers of the 10th parliament, until December last, spent just nine percent of their time in parliament to pass laws, according to a TIB study.

From a distance, the red building appears to have been left neglected for a long time.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged journalists to properly run news on her government's good activities in the interest of the country.

Around 60 babies a day are being born in vast refugee camps in Bangladesh, sheltering hundreds of thousands of mainly Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar, the United Nations children's agency Unicef said on Wednesday.

Just three days ago, he had become a father for the second time.

The Joint Working Group has failed to fix any date to start repatriation of around 700,000 Rohingyas even three months after Bangladesh handed over a list of 8,032 refugees to Myanmar.

Congestion on Dhaka-Chittagong highway is nothing short of a nightmare.

Ruling Awami League and BNP insiders believe they have gained more than their arch rival from the just-concluded Khulna City Corporation elections.