Academic activities of institutions, from primary schools to colleges, in more than a dozen districts have been seriously hampered by the floods.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government would import 15 lakh tonnes of food grains, if necessary, to ensure food security of people.

“We are not playing against aliens. We are playing against Australia."

Muslim militants in Myanmar staged a coordinated attack on 30 police posts and an army base in Rakhine State yesterday, and at least 59 of the insurgents and 12 members of the security forces were killed, the army and government said. The fighting -- still going on in some areas -- marked a major escalation in a simmering conflict in the northwestern state since last October, when similar attacks prompted a big military sweep beset by allegations of serious human rights abuses.

In the wake of Rohingya insurgents' attacks on police and army personnel in Rakhine State, Bangladesh yesterday saw a sudden influx of Rohingyas who fled Myanmar for fear of persecution.

India has said that Rohingyas living in Jammu and Kashmir states will be sent back to Myanmar.

A suspected "Neo JMB" operative was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Boalia village of Kushtia's Daulatpur upazila early yesterday.

The World Bank has offered a low-cost loan of $250 million to Bangladesh for tackling natural disasters.

Police have arrested the prime accused in the gang rape case of a Barguna schoolteacher.

The High Court yesterday declared illegal and void the two deals Niko Resources Bangladesh Limited signed with Bapex and Petrobangla, as those were procured through corruption. The court also directed the authorities to “revert back” to the state the assets Niko possessed through the Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) and the Gas Purchase and Sales Agreement (GPSA) signed in 2003 and 2006.

The High Court yesterday directed the government not to approve any factory within 10 kilometres of the Sundarbans.

The Rakhine Advisory Commission, led by its chairman former UN chief Kofi Annan, has called for freedom of movement for all people

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government was tackling the ongoing flood situation and called upon the affluent to

"The August 21 grenade attack on Awami League President Sheikh Hasina's rally in 2004 was carried out by the party itself [AL] to put the

"Stop import of pneumatic horns and confiscate those from markets in

The growth of the country's farm sector has slowed down over the last five years and an expert from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) attributed this largely to the fall in rice production growth. The sector registered a yearly growth of 2.3 percent in 2012-16, down from 4.7 percent in 2007-11.

When all major infrastructure projects are facing delays and cost escalation, the venture to build three new bridges on the Shitalakkhya, Meghna and Gumti rivers is making good progress. All of them are expected to be completed by the December 2018 deadline, and setting an example, will cost less than what was estimated in the development project proforma (DPP).

Justice ABM Khairul Haque has become the lone former chief justice who has strongly criticised a Supreme Court verdict to defend the

A group of powerful men, including lawmakers, have meddled in four out of six climate projects under the Water Development Board

A Chittagong court yesterday sent 13 schoolteachers to jail in a sedition case filed for “defaming” Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman