Uncontested elections - be it national or local - is gradually becoming a common practice in Bangladesh politics.

Life in Kalatia was calm and relaxed basking in the breezy spring days back in 1971. And it was only natural for a quiet

An alleged robber was killed and four others were injured when Rapid Action Battalion members and a robber gang "traded bullets" in a bus in the district's Bheramara upazila Sunday night.

The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, marking the birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), will be observed across the

The High Court yesterday declared the imposition of value-added tax (VAT) on tuition fees of English medium schools illegal and directed the authorities concerned to stop collecting VAT from January next year.

Chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha's remarks that the constitutional provision empowering the president to control posting,

Exclusive Al Jazeera footage appears to show police helping set fire to a Santal home in Gaibandha's Gobindaganj upazila.

The president has been misinformed about issuance of gazette notification on the rules determining discipline and conduct of lower court judges, the Supreme Court observed yesterday.

The BNP, Jatiya Party, and the LDP have planned to ask the president to form an election-time cabinet before the next parliamentary polls. They want to propose this when they meet the president to talk about the formation of the Election Commission.

He always kept his duties well above everything. Even when his mother and newly married wife were undergoing treatment at a hospital the day after the Pakistan army crackdown on March 25, 1971, Dr Azharul Haque did not walk away from his duties towards patients and the nation.

Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque yesterday said the member states of the Global Forum on Migration and Development

Terrorists attacked sites in Turkey, Egypt, Yemen, Somalia and Nigeria on Saturday and yesterday, leaving a bloody toll on two continents and prompting new concerns about the spreading influence of jihadists. Turkey observed a day of mourning yesterday after twin bombings killed 38 people near an Istanbul football stadium in attacks authorities said were the work of Kurdish militants.

A Swechchha- sebak League leader was shot dead in a clash over establishing supremacy at a crowded intersection in the

July, 1971. An uneven war was on for about four months.

At least 100 people were killed by the collapse of a church in southeastern Nigeria, a resident and photojournalist who visited

ExxonMobil President and CEO Rex Tillerson is President-elect Donald Trump's likely pick for secretary of state, US media

A teenage girl committed suicide in Satkhira's Kolaroa upazila yesterday, a day after she was allegedly beaten up and

Shipon, a 43-year-old man from Old Dhaka, had to languish in jail for more than 16 years in a murder case with little progress

Amid abusive labour practices all around, South Korea has set a unique model of recruiting foreign workers via state

“People become happy to see flowers, but I get scared. I just stare at them and wonder if they are meant for love or for profit.”