Police have sued three dead staffers of Multifabs Ltd over Monday's boiler explosion at its garment factory in Gazipur, raising doubts

The High Court yesterday asked owners of all unauthorised commercial structures to remove their installations from the residential

Detectives are trying to find the microbus in which writer and poet Farhad Mazhar claimed to have been forcibly taken to Khulna early

Each family of 20 foreign and Bangladeshi nationals who were killed in the Holey Artisan cafe terror attack in the capital's Gulshan on

The death toll from Monday's boiler explosion rose to 13 yesterday, showing once again that boilers are becoming a major source of industrial disasters due to lack of proper inspection and use of outdated boilers.

The judiciary is yet to be allowed to have the independence offered by the original constitution 45 years ago, making the idea of

Fresh onrush of flood water has submerged parts of the hilly southeast -- Bandarban and Chittagong -- while Sylhet in the country's

Writer and poet Farhad Mazhar in a judicial statement yesterday said several unidentified men forced him into a microbus and

Around 2,000 Bangladeshis, mostly migrants from Iran, Lebanon and Jordan, got stuck in Turkey as their attempts to illegally enter

The Jatiya Sangsad no longer has the power to remove Supreme Court judges for incapacity or misconduct as the government has finally lost the legal battle to defend the controversial 16th constitutional amendment that restored this authority of parliament.

At least nine people were killed and about 50 others injured in a boiler explosion at a garment factory in Joydebpur of Gazipur yesterday evening.

The flooding in Sylhet might take an alarming turn and trigger landslides in the hilly areas as heavy rain is expected to continue falling

Writer, columnist and poet Farhad Mazhar was found on a bus in Jessore last night, 18 hours after he reportedly went missing from outside his home in the capital's Adabor.

Months after flash floods spelt untold miseries for people in the haor areas, the Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday sued 61 people, including engineers of Bangladesh Water Development Board and contractors, for purposeful mismanagement and corruption in dam construction.

Secretaries at a meeting with the prime minister yesterday requested the government to provide them with various facilities like vehicles, residences and house helps even after their retirement, said sources.

Bangladeshis and Indians are going in the opposite directions with regard to stashing money in Switzerland banks -- the former's, a far smaller economy, is going up while the latter's is on the decline.

Green activists yesterday reiterated that the government should backtrack on the proposed Rampal power plant to be built in the vicinity

Sylhet might be on the verge of another disaster after 2004 as flood has affected most of its upazilas following overflow of all the rivers, canals, haors and marshes due to heavy rain and flash flood.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque believes militants will not be able to carry out attacks as their strength has been reduced through continued police operations since the Holey Artisan attack.

The 400-year-old Rath Mela in Dhamrai, a fair that is integral to Hindu festival Rathjatra Utsab, was shut down Saturday night allegedly over a rift between the local lawmaker and municipality mayor.