Mohammad Billal, in his late 20s, has been professionally driving minibuses and pick-up trucks for the last seven years in the capital and only recently he applied for a driving licence. Billal is set to get a professional driving licence from Bangladesh Road Transport Authority on March 30.

The Bangladesh government should move quickly to adopt regulations to limit the harms of a new law that legalises child marriage, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

A fugitive convicted gunsmith was found dead with a bullet wound to the chest following a gunfight during a police raid on an uninhabited hill in Cox's Bazar's Maheshkhali upazila yesterday around noon.

Police yesterday said they were expecting to submit the charge-sheet in the Gulshan café attack case by the end of this year.

Amit Chakma was only three when the construction of Kaptai dam ended in 1962. The dam, meant to generate hydroelectric power,

Counterterrorism officials have arrested the alleged spiritual leader of “Neo JMB”, who they think approved the Gulshan café attack plot last year.

A huge quantity of dissolved salt will be discharged into the Dhaleshwari river from the Savar Tannery Industrial Estate as the central effluent treatment plant (CETP) there doesn't have the component needed for desalinising wastewater. Even if all the other toxic materials are treated, the salt will kill the biodiversity of the river, say, environmentalists. The country's tannery industry uses around 40,000 tonnes of salt annually.

Bangladesh is to ban the import of the cold-medicine component pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in illicit methamphetamine

Soon after the academic year began in January, Masuma Marjan tried to make a routine squeezing in all the 13 subjects she must complete before her JSC exams. But the eighth grader quickly realised she doesn't even have the whole year for her preparation -- her exams are scheduled for November. So she has settled for studying the main subjects first, each carrying 100 marks, and then thumb through the “less-significant” subjects in whatever time she will have left.

Child rights activists yesterday called upon the government to formulate rules of the Child Marriage Restraint Act 2017 immediately to prevent its misuse.

The High Court yesterday directed 154 Hazaribagh tannery owners to pay the government Tk 30.85 crore as fine within two weeks for

Good news finally followed a couple of days' mayhem by transport workers. The strike was called off Wednesday, only when Shipping

North South University students and police clashed for around five hours yesterday during a protest at the assault on some NSU students allegedly by Ansar members and security guards in Bashundhara Residential Area on Wednesday night.

"What was our fault? Why people had to suffer for the unlawful demands of the transport workers?"

Counterterrorism officials yesterday claimed to have arrested an upazila unit “Neo JMB” commander who leads a syndicate that

The Japan funded massive Matarbari 1,200 megawatt coal power plant project near Maheshkhali was stalled following the Holey

Mohammad Emdadul, an auto-rickshaw driver in Chittagong city, couldn't hit the road for three days due to transport strike.

The High Court yesterday asked the authorities to explain in three weeks why they should not be directed to take legal action against those behind the transport strike enforced to protest a court verdict.

Transport workers yesterday resumed operation only after their leader Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan intervened. Shajahan, also executive president of Bangladesh Road Transport Workers Federation, made a call for ending the transport strike following two meetings -- one with two ministers and another with transport owners and workers.

“Enforcing a transport strike against a court verdict is regrettable. If you [protesters] have any grievance against the verdict, place it