In recent years, the country's northwestern border in Chapainawabganj has emerged as a major route for smuggling in arms. It has of late become militants' most preferred point for collecting illegal firearms and explosives. This is the route through which terror outfit “Neo JMB” smuggled in the guns and bombs used in last year's Gulshan café attack. With such chilling information surfacing, Shariful Islam visits the zero line area of Indo-Bangla border in the district to investigate how the illicit trade goes on there so easily.

Myanmar must grant citizenship to the Rohingyas to allow hundreds of thousands of people from the minority to return to Rakhine

About 3,000 Rohingyas who entered Bangladesh through the Anzumanpara border point in Ukhia on Wednesday night were shifted to Balukhali temporary shelter over the last two days.

If you take a look at Kaiplem Mro, you can feel the confidence she exudes. The 53-year-old indigenous woman from the remote Mrolongpara under Sadar upazila of Bandarban is in charge of her own future.

Bangladesh has topped the South Asian countries in gender equality for the third consecutive year, ranking 47th among 144 nations.

Fraudsters cloned the SIM card of a deputy commissioner and tried to use it for extorting money.

Former president Abdur Rahman Biswas passed away at a city hospital last night. He was 91.

In a fresh spike, around 5,000 Rohingya refugees entered Bangladesh in just one day.

A dark, doomed slum area infested with drug pedlars and local hoodlums.

It has been 42 years after the killing of the four national leaders at the erstwhile Dhaka central jail, but the authorities

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday alleged that the government was framing her in politically-motivated cases as part of its

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been ranked 30th on this year's Forbes list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women.

A father and his daughter were killed in the capital's North Badda yesterday, barely 12 hours into the murder of a mother and her son in their Kakrail house.

Shortage of family planning services may aggravate the health problems of Rohingya refugees, especially mothers and children suffering from malnutrition, say government officials and experts. Contraceptives are unpopular among Rohingyas largely for lack of education and awareness about family planning. Every Rohingya couple has six to seven children on average, say NGO officials at the refugee camps in Cox's Bazar.

The police probe into the 2015 attack on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's motorcade in the city's Karwan Bazar has failed to identify any of the attackers though photographs of many of them were published in the media. The BNP chief's convoy came under attack during a campaign for city corporation election in April. Two and a half years later, her motorcade was attacked twice within only four days this week in Feni.

The BNP chairperson's road trip to reach out to the Rohingyas living in refugee camps is a refreshing deviation from a long hibernation of the party in terms of drumming up support.

Dhaka city needs no wetlands and water retention areas around it for storm drainage and environmental conservation,

The United States has assured Bangladesh “both financial and diplomatic” support for the safe, sustainable and dignified repatriation of the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals.

The wife of a businessman and one of their sons were murdered inside their home in the capital's Kakrail area yesterday.

Country's energy explorer Bapex has completed two pending geological tests to confirm existence of high-pressured extractable natural