Girls have outperformed boys in all scales in primary and junior school certificate exams this year.

Twenty-three Nobel laureates and global leaders have urged the members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) to urgently put the persisting Rohingya crisis on the Security Council's agenda and to call upon the UN secretary-general to visit Myanmar as a priority. “If the current secretary-general is able to do so, we would urge him to go; if not, we encourage the new secretary-general to make it one of his first tasks after he takes office in January,” reads an open letter sent to the president of the UNSC and to all its member states.

"If you are corrupt, I will fetch you using a helicopter to Manila and I will throw you out. I have done this before, why would I not do it again?

Bangladesh suffered a 67-run defeat against New Zealand in the second One-Day International at the Saxton Oval in Nelson yesterday.

Three construction workers were killed as the under-construction roof of a food processing factory collapsed on them in Ashulia on

Most of the newly elected district council chairmen have a clean image as they are educated and have no criminal records.

"It is not this resolution that is isolating Israel. It is the permanent policy of settlement construction that risks making peace impossible."

Votes of members and chairmen are costly. And because they are costly, you can bargain over the price and then cast your ballot. Now, if

Newspaper Owners' Association of Bangladesh (Noab) has expressed concern over recent media reports on formation of the Ninth

Before leaving home for the so-called Jihad, fugitive “Neo JMB” militant Maynul Islam Musa destroyed everything that could link him to

Eight incumbent district administrators, all leaders of the ruling Awami League, suffered defeats in district council polls yesterday.

The voters were no ordinary people. More than 60,000 elected public representatives of local government bodies had the suffrage in

The ruling Awami League-backed chairman candidates suffered defeat at the hands of their party rebels in about a third of the 38 zila parishads that went to polls yesterday, amid boycott by the BNP and the main opposition Jatiya Party. AL-sponsored chairman candidates already won unopposed in 21 district councils, so there was no need for voting for the post in those districts.

The zila parishads are going to the first-ever polls today but the results have already been determined.

The Workers Party of Bangladesh urged President Abdul Hamid to form a constitutional council that will propose names for the posts

Female members of “Neo JMB” got involved in militant activities under pressure from their militant husbands, Chief of Counter Terrorism Unit Monirul Islam said yesterday.

As Bangladesh get set to play their second ODI against the Black Caps in Nelson tomorrow there will be two aspects that their fans will

“The United Nations has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad!”

Israel could advance plans this week for thousands more settlement homes in annexed east Jerusalem in defiance of a landmark UN resolution demanding an end to such activity.

With “satisfactory” improvement in law and order, Japanese consultants and contractors are rejoining projects in Bangladesh which they had left following a string of terror attacks, especially after the one on Gulshan cafe on July 1.