A group of civil society members would ask the search committee to pick competent, impartial and courageous people for constituting the five-member Election Commission.

Abul Bajandar, dubbed the “tree man” because of branch-like warts growing on his hands and legs, is happy as doctors are hopeful of

Mominul Haque has been suffering from obesity, so doctors advised him at least an hour's walk every day. But he can't go for that must-do exercise. The banker is also allergic to dust, and much of the capital's Gulshan, where he lives, is covered with thick dust these days. So he is skipping his walk and, as a result, his weight gain continues.

Radicalised Bangladeshis with dual citizenship have become a major challenge for counterterrorism surveillance by law enforcers.

US President Donald Trump unleashed a wave of alarm yesterday with his order to temporarily halt all refugee arrivals and impose tough controls on travellers from seven Muslim countries, including war-wracked Syria, to give preference to religious minorities.

“Now [appointment of] APP means a panel list made by the ruling party, whoever in power, none from outside is appointed."

It seems that the Supreme Court's (SC) immensely significant opinion on the anti-torture law did not go down well with the police.

Thousands of bags full of urea fertilizer have weathered under the sun and in rains over the last two years at extended courtyards of two northern river ports.

The current parliament has made no deviation from the constitutional provision of going into sessions regularly in the last three years.

The newly formed search committee in its first meeting yesterday requested 31 political parties to recommend five names each to the

A railway staffer died while saving a girl from a train accident near Kuril in the capital yesterday.

British Prime Minister Theresa May was set to meet Donald Trump yesterday, the US president's first official meeting with a foreign leader. Post-Brexit trade opportunities, ties with Russia and the future of Nato were likely to feature prominently in May's talks with Trump.

If you were a farmer and went to buy locally produced TSP and DAP, you can't buy it at the government-fixed retail price. You have to pay at least 50 percent more. It is because two syndicates have been in control of the distribution of these two important fertilisers for around two decades, thanks to a flawed distribution system.

Former police superintendent Babul Akhter's father-in-law Mosharraf Hossain yesterday said he wanted to see his daughter Mitu's killers get punished, be it Babul, his father or someone else.

Field-level police officials have been instructed to keep an eye on the Rohingyas following allegation that some of them are being motivated to join the Islamic State.

He is a good friend of mine, not just a companion from my university days. He is an honest man and he never indulged in corruption as far as my knowledge goes. He has been in the civil administration for quite a few years now.

Anti-Rampal power plant activists were met with tear gas, water cannon and batons when they took to the streets in the capital yesterday to enforce eight-hour hartal.

The BNP would “neither accept nor reject” the newly formed search committee for constituting the Election Commission though the

Mongla Port is no Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle in the Atlantic Ocean, where several ships and also aircraft are said to have mysteriously vanished. But when it comes to ships full of fertiliser, they can disappear under equally mysterious circumstances from this port in southern Bangladesh, about 14,000km east of Bermuda Triangle.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday termed Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus a “cheat”, accusing him of not giving shares of Grameenphone profits to Grameen Bank in “breach of the promise he made before setting up of the telecom company”.