Amid growing concerns of tailbacks on highways, holidaymakers have started leaving the capital for homes to celebrate Eid with their loved ones, and the rush is expected to gain momentum today.

Around 10:45am on Sunday, Egaro Sindhur Provati, the express-train from Kishoreganj, slowed right down around half a kilometre

Until four years ago, 32-year-old housewife Sohagi from Rajshahi city's Guripara was happy with her life. Her husband Motiur Rahman

In a unique gesture to stand by the landslide victims, the Rangamati district administration has decided to celebrate the Eid-ul-Fitr with them at 19 shelter centres.

Muslims across the country will observe the holy Lailatul Qadr tonight with due religious fervour and devotion.

Bangladesh's per capita income would reach $12,000 and the size of its economy $2.5 trillion by 2041, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Twenty-six activists of the ruling Awami League and its front organisations have been sued over the attack on BNP Secretary General

An assistant superintendent of police (ASP) of Savar highway circle was killed by unidentified assailants hours after he left his Uttara

The government has decided to reduce the duty on rice imports by more than half the existing rate to encourage the private sector to

The government may backtrack on its plan to implement the new VAT law from July this year, in the face of pressure from a section of

Bangladesh spends much higher amounts than India and China on construction of roads particularly because of time overrun and lack

The sack of rice supposed to be given to her has been taken by political leaders of her neighbourhood in Rangamati.

The law protecting the hills is tough. It allows nobody to cut or raze even his or her own hill or hillock. If any body does so, he or she

Rice import by the private sector has dropped to a four-year low at a time when its prices have shot up in the domestic market. Traders imported only 1.2 lakh tonnes of rice till mid-June in the current fiscal year against 2.56 lakh tonnes in the previous fiscal year.

A van ploughed into a crowd of Muslims near a London mosque early yesterday, leaving one person dead and injuring 10 others in the second terror attack this month in the British capital, reported AFP.

For the last six days, I have been reporting from Rangamati on the aftermath of the landslides.

Yesterday, it was the same old story of inexpressible misery that the city dwellers endure when city traffic system collapses after rain.

As it continued to rain yesterday, people kept coming to the shelters for landslide victims in Rangamati.

Bachchu Miah could only stare at the bodies of his family members in front of his Lalbagh home in the capital. He could not say anything after losing his three family members.

Amzad Hossain came from his village Moghnama in Pekua upazila to Cox's Bazar town two decades ago and began working as a newspaper hawker. He bought two decimal land and built a house on a hilltop at Baiddyaghona.