A mother she is of 40 children. She has not given birth to them but that doesn't make any less satisfactory the motherhood she tastes when she prepares food for them, gets them ready for school, holds them with affection as they fall sick and tells them stories in bed before sleep.

Essential commodities, agricultural products and life-saving drugs are going to be exempted from value-added tax under the new VAT law that takes effect in July.

Bangladeshi migrant workers will be able to send home their hard-earned money free of cost likely from July as the government has made a move to boost the remittance inflow.

“Our market is dominated by pirated software. However, we are very fortunate that this time nothing serious happened.”

Amidst a major Boro crop loss, Bangladesh for the first time in five years is going to the international market to buy rice with the aim of reining in the soaring prices of the staple.

Five suspected militants, including three from a family, were killed as they detonated two suicide belts and hacked a fireman to death during a 36-hour raid on a hideout in Rajshahi's Godagari on Thursday.

The allegation of rape brought against Ahmed Shafat and Shadman Sakif appears to be true, police said yesterday after the primary interrogation of the two accused in the Banani double rape case.

The High Court has declared unconstitutional the rules under which executive magistrates run mobile courts.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has put emphasis on stopping sectarian war among the Muslims, saying that it ultimately benefits the arms traders.

Bangladesh's tri-series opener against Ireland yesterday saw the Tigers recover from 70 for four through an 87-run fifth-wicket stand

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday unveiled her party's “Vision 2030” with 256 proposals, which it will implement if voted to power in the next election, for transforming Bangladesh into a "democratic and high middle-income" country in 12 years. If the proposals are implemented, per capita income will rise to $5,000 from current $1,466 and the country will achieve a double-digit annual growth rate by 2030, according to the BNP.

The “Vision 2030” unveiled by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was nothing but “a joke and an attempt to deceive the nation”, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

When Valentine's Day was being celebrated across the world with romantic fervour and enthusiasm on February 14, Tasnima (not her real name) ended up being tortured by none other than her husband.

The government is likely to set a flat 12 percent VAT rate by amending the new VAT law in the face of demands from various quarters, according to finance ministry officials.

She neither wore nor washed the dress since she was allegedly raped on March 28.

The holy Shab-e-Barat, the night of fortune and forgiveness, will be observed in the country tonight with due religious fervour.

Students of a primary school in Gaibandha took their first terminal examination on the veranda of the educational institution yesterday

The government “compromised and surrendered to fundamentalist groups” by bringing changes in textbooks, limiting Pahela Baishakh

The arrested attacker of the Mymensingh Ahmadiyya mosque imam yesterday claimed the attackers had no link with any political party and that no party or organisation helped them in carrying out the attack.

The government plans to take up a massive $16 billion programme for secondary education to transform the sector by improving the quality of education and developing employability skills of secondary graduates.