Rasheda Begum has been attending her critically injured daughter at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital for the last 11 days.

Can you tell the name of some places in our city where the persons with disabilities can go easily? Perhaps you will end up counting a few.

Since his birth, Likhon cannot move any of his limbs on his own. Born in a poor family, the physically challenged man is confined to wheelchair all the time and has to take his mother's help to meet his daily needs. Still, he does not want to be considered a burden. In fact, his willpower has brought him a feat only a few can achieve overcoming hurdles like his.

India has proposed a number of new initiatives to enhance the capacity and capabilities of the Bangladesh Armed Forces.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia claims innocence before a special court in the Zia Charitable Trust graft case filed by the Anti Corruption Commission in 2011.

With hundreds of newly-arrived Rohingyas crowding unregistered Rohingya camps in Teknaf and other areas of Cox's Bazar, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said they would be sent back to their country at a convenient time.

A ruling Awami League lawmaker in Natore and the Chittagong city corporation mayor accompanied AL-nominated chairman and member candidates in the district council elections while they submitted their nomination papers yesterday.

Lowly Barisal Bulls blunted Rajshahi Kings' chances of making the Bangladesh Premier League playoffs by beating Darren

When two police probes said internal conflict of local Awami League resulted in the Nasirnagar attacks on Hindu temples and homes, the investigation by Brahmanbaria district administration found no such link.

The hill people had to struggle and make sacrifices for achieving the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord. Every single family there was affected in one way or the other. Since its signing, 19 years have gone by but the hill people are yet to see its full implementation.

Rima Barman drew a dinosaur on a wall of her house, not to spoil it. It was rather her contribution to adorning her house with traditional art called alpona.

The country's civil and other bureaucracies are still not in favour of full implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord, alleged Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, president of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (PCJSS). He also said it is very difficult to fully implement the accord when bureaucracies are against it and want to destroy the existence of the Jumma people.

Eid-e-Miladunnabi, the day of birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), will be observed on December 13 as the

A Narayanganj court yesterday fixed January 16 next year for delivering its verdict on the 2014 sensational seven murders.

Biman yesterday suspended six officials of its engineering section after a probe discovered that their negligence in duty

Mangal Shobhajatra on Pahela Baishakh, a festival close to the hearts of Bangalis, has been inscribed on Unesco's

Twelve years after the killing of journalist Manik Chandra Saha, a speedy tribunal in Khulna yesterday sentenced nine people to

The reigning champions of the Bangladesh Premier League, the Comilla Victorians, may not have a chance to make it to the

At least 10,000 Rohingyas have entered Bangladesh recently to flee violence in Myanmar, the United Nations said yesterday. “Based on reports by various humanitarian agencies, we estimate that there could be 10,000 new arrivals in recent weeks,” Vivian Tan, a spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency in Bangkok, told AFP.

Philippine lender RCBC and a Bangladeshi minister yesterday traded blame over liability for tens of millions of dollars that were