After most of the Bhabadah rivers silted up, things turned real bad in 1983. Several villages and much of the low-lying area went under water after a heavy rain for the first time since the embankments were built in the 1960s. The water stagnation lasted several months.

A truck ploughed into a crowded Christmas market in the German capital Berlin yesterday evening, killing nine people and

A Turkish policeman crying "Aleppo" and "Allahu Akbar" shot dead Russia's ambassador to Turkey at an art exhibition in Ankara yesterday, in what Moscow branded a "terrorist act" that would be punished.

Happy with Sunday's dialogue with the president, the BNP now wants to intensify its campaign focusing on the formation of a

A 30-year-old man died hours after police arrested him at his house in Jamalpur's Melandaha upazila Sunday afternoon.

Military actions against Myanmar's Rohingya minority may amount to crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said, as the government called a meeting of regional leaders to discuss the issue.

Bhabadah, often called the “Sorrow of Jessore”, where water is a symbol of suffering, hunger, disease, and death. The perennial waterlogging triggered from Bhabadah point affects mainly three upazilas -- Abhaynagar, Manirampur and Keshabpur -- home to some 10 lakh people.

Senior leaders of the ruling Awami League asked the BNP to keep faith in President Abdul Hamid, saying the next Election Commission to be formed by him would be acceptable to all.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday said the formation of a strong Election Commission would be possible through talks with political parties.

Two-year-old Adiat keeps looking for his mother. His grandmother tries her best to distract him but to no avail.

A smiling face, irrespective of age, warms up his soul. He believes a sincere, warm smile has the power to bring peace between enemies.

Unauthorised financial transaction has been one of the key catalysts in the recruitment of lecturers at eight public universities, leading to irregularities and corruption there, says a report of Transparency International Bangladesh.

The history of dialogue in Bangladesh politics in the last 25 years is an eventful saga of success and failure.

A ruling party lawmaker of Natore yesterday said he had to do a lot of things to make his party-backed candidate winner though the contestant had actually lost the 2014 upazila elections.

President Abdul Hamid will start his dialogue with BNP in order to constitute a new Election Commission due in early February

The president's talks with political parties on the formation of a new Election Commission starts today amid hopes of a stronger and

Despite a tendency to shun sunlight, there's nothing humble about mushrooms. Fat and cholesterol free, they are a good

Ishaan pulls out three books on Bangladesh and Global Studies, as he explains how he has been preparing for his final exams in class-VI. Two of them are actually guidebooks which he says are must-read study materials for excelling in the subject.

"Practise democracy instead of playing tricks to grab state power."

For the young TV journalist, it was an opportunity of a lifetime to cover the events of the Liberation War of Bangladesh.