Cricket is a game of fine margins. If the coin had been angled differently when it hit the Galle International Stadium pitch yesterday, maybe it would have been Bangladesh enjoying a batting-friendly pitch and the Sri Lankans toiling away in the heat.

Mustafa Kamal, the youth caught “red-handed” with bombs from the scene of Monday's attack on a prison van carrying condemned Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, had left his home in Mymensingh one and a half months ago, police claimed.

Police again came under attack by suspected militants during a routine check of a bus on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Comilla's Chandina yesterday. Two attackers were detained.

It's always a challenge to come up with a piece for International Women's Day that will not sound clichéd and filled with lofty recommendations that are bound to make policy makers and anti feminists (if they have even deigned to read this at all) yawn with

“I will quit if I fail to serve the people of Narayanganj city. Before that I will hold a press conference, explain everything and then tender

The nation is set to observe "Historic 7th March", a red-letter day in the country's history, in a befitting manner today.

Much of the talk regarding the first Test between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka due to start at 10:30am (Bangladesh time) on Tuesday at the Galle International Cricket Stadium has surrounded Bangladesh's previous visit here in March 2013.

Suspected militants yesterday hurled several bombs at a convoy of four prison vans one of which was carrying condemned Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan.

Seventeen lakh children under five die every year across the globe owing to unhealthy or polluted environment, according to the World Health Organization.

The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of bringing changes in the textbooks of primary and secondary levels by excluding

The High Court yesterday directed the director general of the Department of Environment to immediately close the tanneries that are running at the capital's Hazaribagh and have failed to relocate to the Tannery Industrial Estate in Savar.

The home ministry yesterday banned Islamist outfit Ansar Al Islam, which is said to be the Bangladesh chapter of al-Qaeda in the

Consumers can now be assured of food safety themselves just by using a litmus-like paper designed by Buet researchers to determine the presence of formalin in food items. A drop of a drink on the paper can help learn whether it is safe. To know if any fruit, vegetable or other solid food item is adulterated with formalin, a small amount of water from washing them can be used.

Hundreds of commuters travel by buses in the capital every day without knowing that many of the drivers don't have driving licence.

The room is still neatly kept the way Taqi would want it.

Russia began the commercial operation of the world's first third-generation-plus nuclear power reactor, the same ones that would be

“I don't get this sport of God; I've come here as the chancellor of a university where I couldn't even get admitted.”

Nothing will bring back the child who is now in the great beyond, but what could be a better way the mother could remember her

President Abdul Hamid yesterday urged graduates to create honest and competent leadership to make the foundation of democracy stronger at the 50th Convocation of Dhaka University (DU).

Arijit Chakma Prithu has a disliking for claw hair clips. One afternoon six years ago this autistic young man was out walking in the city's Chandrima Udyan. He saw a girl with such a clip and grabbed it.