More than 50 Bangladeshi children have remained trapped at a West Bengal shelter home in India for months as they are

Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman, a doctoral student at the Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of Clark University in the US, has research interests in the role of paramilitary groups during the 1971 Liberation War.

Chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday hoped the Jatiya Sangsad would scrap the constitutional provisions that

The government has initiated a process to formulate a specific law on appointment of judges to the High Court amid

Law and order is normal and there is no threat of untoward incidents ahead of the Narayanganj City Corporation polls,

A nexus between the employers of migrant workers overseas and illegal manpower brokers there is jacking up the migration

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged the international community to take a vow and act together to lift the migrants from their miseries and agonies. “Migration is no longer about 'us' and 'them'… it is about prosperity and wellbeing of all people, all states. We need to see how we can realise the transformative potential of migration by laying an appropriate framework for governance of migration,” she said.

States have the primary responsibility for upholding human rights. The United Nations, along with partners around the globe, must continue to strengthen responses to abuses, and work better to prevent human rights crises.

The UN has urged Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to visit the north of Rakhine state, where the army is accused of carrying out a brutal crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya minority.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the womenfolk to strive for realising their rights by themselves.

One person was killed a day in “shootouts” involving law enforcement agencies on an average last month, according to Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK).

One morning two and a half years back, Rahmatullah Sentu, a transport owner, was returning home from a lawyer's office in Old Dhaka with his wife Baishakhi Afreen.

Everybody loves a good underdog story, but take a minute and put yourselves in the shoes of Shakib Al Hasan, in the shoes of a Dhaka Dynamites player.

“Rohingya issue is a political problem, and it cannot be resolved militarily."

Local Awami League leader Kamrul Islam, who was picked up by four unidentified men from his metal shop in the city on Wednesday afternoon, returned home at night after the abductors abandoned him in a dried up wetland in Darusha of Poba upazila.

Formation of the new Election Commission on the basis of consensus among political parties is not an impossible task if the parties draw inspiration from the very examples they set in the past.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will pay her proposed state visit to India at the end of January next year when New Delhi will give her “a very warm welcome.”

At least two of the nine youths, who disappeared in the last couple of weeks, have contacted their families but haven't mentioned why they went away.

Nurul Islam spent just Tk 17,000 when he migrated to Saudi Arabia for work in 1985 as his employing company paid for his visa and the airfare.

The grounds for the attack on the Hindus in Brahmanbaria were prepared in a remote bazaar on the bank of the Titas river on October 29, some 13km from Nasirnagar upazila headquarters where the mayhem took place the next day.