The government yesterday filed a petition with the Supreme Court seeking review of its verdict scrapping the 16th amendment to the constitution that had empowered parliament to remove SC judges for incapacity or misconduct.

Both the Awami League and the BNP will give their best to win the upcoming Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral by-polls after their election debacle in Rangpur.

People faced some difficulties when the price of rice crossed Tk 50 a kg and might have run out of their savings to cope with the high price, Finance Minister AMA Muhith said yesterday.

Nine years ago when a former judge and two prosecutors at the international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia were examining the documents on human rights abuses in Myanmar, they were astonished by the UN inaction even though the global body knew for years the severe, widespread, and systematic violations of human rights there.

The country's Christian community is celebrating Christmas Day today as elsewhere across the world, commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ.

Bangladesh was considered to be a serious contender for this year's Economist's “country of the year”.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday opposed the formation of Bangladesh Chhatra League committees in schools, saying there is no need to put the "burden of politics" on children.

Canada's special envoy on the Rohingya crisis Bob Rae has said it would be “unconscionable” for the UN member states to sanction a repatriation that was forced, or that did not include basic protections of human security and human rights.

Bangladesh Kalyan Party Secretary General MM Aminur Rahman, who went missing around four months ago, is now shown arrested in an explosives case filed in 2015.

Under a government-to-government initiative, Bangladesh is seeking multi-billion dollar support from Japan for implementing 18 infrastructure projects, including a second Padma bridge and a second metro rail line.

The natural Dumni canal that nourished local agriculture and ecology for decades on the city's eastern outskirts is now being filled up to make way for real estate development.

Political uncertainty centring the national elections, its effect on investment, rising food prises, sluggish exports and remittance, and a

Just because of red tape, a container full of relief materials donated by the Indian Navy for the victims of cyclone Mora has been lying

The captors of North South University teacher Mubashar Hasan were divided over whether to kill him or not, before finally freeing him early yesterday. The kidnappers also demanded money for his release, said Mubashar, sharing his experience of the 44-day captivity with journalists as he repeatedly fought back tears.

Newly elected Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Mayor Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa said he will prioritise maintaining a good relationship with the government for the development of Rangpur.

The humiliating defeat of the Awami League mayoral candidate in the Rangpur City Corporation polls has stunned the local leaders and activists of the party.

Although protecting depositors' interests is one of the key responsibilities of Bangladesh Bank, those interests are not being safeguarded, former BB governor Atiur Rahman alleged yesterday.

Jatiya Party mayoral candidate Mostafizar Rahman Mostafa is leading by a wide margin in Rangpur City Corporation polls held peacefully amid tight security yesterday. According to the unofficial results from all the 193 polling centres, Mostafa got 1,60,489 votes. His nearest rival from the ruling Awami League Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu bagged 62,400 votes while BNP candidate Kawsar Zaman Babla secured 35,136 votes.

UN member-states were yesterday set to vote on a motion rejecting US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, with President Donald Trump threatening to cut funding to countries that back the measure.

The UN's top human rights official, a sharp critic of US President Donald Trump, said yesterday that he will not tone down his message to seek re-election in his post.