Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has stressed the need for coordination among the state's three main branches -- executive, legislature and judiciary.

Baishakh has arrived at our doorstep.

Farmers in the northeastern backswamp are all too familiar with flash floods. Rice paddies grown just once a year in this vast haor remain at the mercy of nature. But thousands of growers in this wetland ecosystem had never experienced flash floods striking this early as in this season, completely destroying paddies in over one lakh hectares of land.

Taxation systems must have gone through many a reform over the past 400 odd years. But nothing possibly was so phenomenal than

Taking a swipe at the BNP chief for coming up with “false” and “confusing” information about her recent India tour, Prime Minister

Mufti Abdul Hannan, one of the country's most dreaded militants, was involved in plotting and carrying out all the terror attacks by Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh. The Huji chief was responsible for the killing of more than a hundred people in 13 militant attacks between 1999 and 2005.

Describing the prime minister's recent India visit as a “total failure”, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday said the PM returned home “empty-handed”.

Heart patients in need of angioplasty and stents can have a sigh of relief as the government has moved to fix the uncontrolled prices of stents that had been worrying patients and their families for years.

Water Resources Minister Anisul Islam Mahmud has said the proposed Ganges barrage project in Rajbari's Pangsha has been abandoned.

The Indian government has decided to send a team of hydrology experts this month to Sikkim for inspecting eight dams built on the Teesta river.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she did not like setting up the statue of Greek Goddess Themis on the Supreme Court premises.

From now on, the government will recognise Dawra degree of Qawmi madrasa as equivalent to master's degree, a move that has raised many eyebrows. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made the announcement last night at a meeting with some 350 representatives of Qawmi madrasas at the Gono Bhaban.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said there was nothing to hide in the agreements and MoUs signed with India during her four-

The perpetrators had turned into a group of animal characters devoid of humanity when they tortured Sheikh Md Samiul Alam Rajon to

Dhallywood superstar Shakib Khan and his wife actress Apu Biswas have apparently reconciled yesterday.

Moudud Ahmed, former law minister of the BNP-led four-party alliance government, gave a clarification to a report published on The

A probe body of the Rajshahi Islami Bank Medical College has found that its Maldivian student Raudha Athif “committed suicide”.

“All of us including the state must be alert to keep the society safe from any kind of untoward incident like Rajon's one.”

With Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wrapping up her India visit yesterday, government agencies and private companies of the two countries signed 13 more agreements and memoranda of understanding to further deepen bilateral economic partnership. The deals involving around $10 billion cover the power, energy, logistics, education and medical sectors.

About 45,000 workers of Hazaribagh tanneries are now worried about how they would survive with no jobs as production at the factories stopped on Saturday.