Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday slated the media for not telling the truth about last year's shooting of a minor boy allegedly by Awami League lawmaker Manzurul Islam Liton.

A Narayanganj court has asked the Rapid Action Battalion to stay alert so none of its members indulges in criminal activities being highly ambitious as some of them did in the 2014 seven-murder incident.

The second phase of Biswa Ijtema, the second largest Muslim congregation after the holy Hajj, concluded yesterday with Akheri Munajat on the bank of the Turag river.

Rain washed out the third day's play of the second and final Test between Bangladesh and New Zealand at the Hagley Oval yesterday.

Omar Faruq Talukder, assistant personal secretary to former railway minister Suranjit Sengupta, was sentenced to five years in prison in a railway-gate case yesterday.

A Sylhet court yesterday freed a man, who had been serving life term as proxy for a convict in a murder case, following a judicial probe prompted by media reports.

UN Human Rights envoy to Myanmar Yanghee Lee has said Myanmar government will lose credibility if it continues to defend the reported human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims.

Every day, streams of Rohingya people, mostly women and young children, dot a 15km stretch of the road from Ukhia to Teknaf in Cox's Bazar.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader claimed that the BNP had proposed former chief justice KM Hasan for appointment to the search committee to form the next Election Commission.

Two local Awami League and Chhatra Dal leaders returned home in Sadullapur's Naldanga yesterday, 11 days after going missing.

It was one of those rare days when the Tigers stalked as a group and put the Kiwis in a tight corner. Shakib Al Hasan might have taken

President Donald Trump assumed power on Friday with a fiercely nationalistic vow to put "America First," taking a stinging swipe at the legacy of his predecessor hours after reciting the oath of office.

Forty-five months have gone by but the 14 months' project to restart the Chittagong Chemical Complex (CCC) is yet to be finished and it is costing the state dearly. For the last seven months, the lone state-owned chemical factory in Sitakunda has been incurring Tk 16 lakh in production loss every day, all because a Chinese firm failed to get the factory going again.

“Religion should be confined to individual choice and should be totally separated from politics. Only then we would be able to create

Following the Narayanganj seven-murder verdict, the Human Rights Watch has urged the government to take immediate steps to disband Rapid Action Battalion and replace it with a rights respecting force.

Bangladesh scored 289 before being bowled out on the opening day of the second Test against New Zealand at the Hagley Oval

Jamie Henshall, an Englishman, never heard from his Bangladeshi father since his parents parted ways in the 80's. Henshall was only two and a half years old then but now that he is going to become a father, he embarked on a quest for his roots.

A year after its first outbreak, wheat blast has reemerged and this time quite early in the season, causing fears of production loss of the country's second most important cereal after rice.

Immediate past US President Barack Obama wrote an emotional public letter thanking Americans and encouraging them to participate in "daily acts of citizenship."

Donald Trump took power as the 45th president of the United States yesterday and pledged to end the "American carnage" of social and economic woes in an inaugural address that was a populist and nationalist rallying cry. Sketching a bleak vision of a country he said was ravaged by rusted-out factories, crime, gangs and drugs, Trump indirectly blamed his predecessors in the White House for policies that helped Washington at the expense of struggling families.