Taking lessons from the past, law enforcement agencies are redoing their strategies to keep law and order under control in this election year. As part of their plan, police and different intelligence agencies will prepare a fresh list of wanted criminals and probable political troublemakers ahead of the election and launch drives to arrest them. Special drives will also be made to recover illegal firearms, said a number of top police officials.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith has held the entrepreneurs responsible for the Farmers Bank debacle and advised Bangladesh Bank to merge the bank with other banks.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani yesterday said that government bodies must provide "space for criticism" as he sought to head off days of unrest, but also warned protesters that violence was unacceptable.

The overall human rights situation in the country was as alarming in the just concluded year as it had been in the past three years, according to rights body Ain o Salish Kendra.

Seeking vote for the Awami League in the next general election for the continuation of development, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her party does not want to see any bloodshed in the country.

The success rate fall in the JSC examinations has once again exposed students' weakness in English and mathematics -- two key subjects that always make a difference in the pass rate.

The port city's unique combination of sea, river and hills is going to lose one of the features due to the greed of an influential quarter.

Three people, including a father and his son, were killed in a landslide at a hill in Chittagong's Rangunia upazila yesterday afternoon when some workers were cutting the hill.

Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) has decided to stop selling fuel to Biman Bangladesh Airlines on credit from tomorrow as its outstanding dues have hit around Tk 1,600 crore in the last eight years.

Year 2017 may go down in our political history for unusual calm. We never witnessed such a situation in politics since restoration of democracy in 1990.

Scams in the banking sector have paled the country's fair economic performance in the outgoing year.

After a steady rise in the success rate since its introduction in 2010, the overall JSC examination results this year suffered a significant fall both in terms of the pass rate and the number of highest achievers.

A number of parents yesterday alleged that they faced a lot of trouble in getting the results of two major public examinations, both online and via text.

Primary and secondary students are set to get new textbooks on the first day of 2018 as the government has taken all preparations to distribute more than 35 crore copies of free books.

The implementation of at least half a dozen foreign-aided projects involving more than Tk 6,000 crore has become uncertain as those

After the Buriganga, the tannery industry is now polluting the Dhaleshwari river, as the central effluent treatment plant (CETP) for treating liquid waste and hazardous chemicals is yet to be fully operational.

In 1960, British citizen and graduate Lucy Helen Frances Holt left the land of her birth and travelled to then East Pakistan to pursue

A gunman opened fire on a church south of Cairo yesterday, killing at least nine people in the latest apparent jihadist attack on the

Disappointed by some doctors' reluctance to stay in rural areas, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said they should stay at their workplace to properly serve the people or quit their jobs.

If informed about a child marriage, a union parishad chairman, like any other local government representative, becomes legally obliged to step in to stop the social evil.