Like always, the prices of some essential commodities shot up on the first day of Ramadan yesterday. The authorities took steps to control the price hike, but traders could not care less. They do not even follow the price list of the commodities issued by the city corporations for Ramadan.

The more degrees you obtain, the more you run the risk of remaining unemployed. It may sound odd, but it's true if we go by a latest government survey. Conducted by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics between December 2013 and June 2015, the survey shows that unemployment rate was the highest among people having tertiary education.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves Dhaka for Vienna this morning to attend a conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) tomorrow.

"Until the police and the armed forces say the Philippines is safe, this martial law will continue. I will not listen to others. The Supreme Court, congress, they are not here.”

It was a peaceful protest procession. The participants were hardly a hundred odd youths who thought the unceremonious removal of Lady Justice's statue from the Supreme Court premises at the ungodly hours didn't go well with the country's secular fabric. Some onlookers, who witnessed the march the next morning advancing towards the capital's Doel Chattar, saw no brick chips or sticks, let alone any arms, in the hands of the protesters.

Fahim Ashraf, a player who is yet to make his debut in international cricket, channelled his inner Shahid Afridi to lead Pakistan to a two-wicket win against Bangladesh in a warm-up match yesterday.

Burdened with rising bad loans and lack of governance, the banking sector of Bangladesh has become a growing malignancy for the economy, according to the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD).

Finance Minister AMA Muhith backtracked from his earlier position to cut the VAT rate saying that the rate would be 15 percent but the number of items and firms exempted from the indirect tax will be increased under the new law.

Mazhar Hossain stopped counting the number of copies of his curriculum vitae submitted seeking jobs since he completed his

The statue of Lady Justice, which was taken down early Friday, was reinstalled last night in front of the Supreme Court's annex building.

With the Lady Justice's statue removed from the Supreme Court premises, Hefajat-e Islam and some other Islamist outfits yesterday demanded the authorities take down all other statues across the country.

Markets in the district famous for high quality tasty varieties of mangoes now see abundance of the popular summer fruit, especially

The holy month of Ramadan will begin in the country tomorrow as the new moon was not sighted anywhere in Bangladesh's sky

Gunmen attacked a group of Coptic Christians travelling to a monastery in southern Egypt yesterday, killing 28 people and wounding

Ten eminent personalities of the country in a statement yesterday said the government “virtually surrendered to religious fundamentalist forces” through removing the Lady Justice's statue from the Supreme Court premises.

Less than 2 percent of all rape cases filed in the last five years ended in conviction. This is mainly because many perpetrators force the victims to settle the matter outside courts and the legal process is so humiliating that the victims back out. Data for Dhaka metropolitan areas paint an even grimmer picture. Just 1.06 percent cases saw convictions in the last 15 years, according court and prosecution sources.

The removal of the statue has cast a dark shadow on our face. It is so saddening that the party that led the Liberation War has given in to the demands that go against the very spirit of non-communalism, a core value of the war. Bangabandhu declared that there would be no use of religion in politics, but the exact opposite is happening now. The conduct of the government today is shaming us and letting our heads down.

For the statue of Lady Justice, it was a brief stay on the Supreme Court premises. It was there for only five months.

Two independent directors of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd (IBBL) resigned from the board yesterday, two days after they were removed

Unidentified attackers shot and killed a BNP leader and his bodyguard in Phultala of Khulna last night.