The government's agreement with India over transit fees and charges is far from comprehensive and the deal already signed is

A number of experts yesterday called for forming an independent commission to monitor the implementation of the coal-

Relations between Bangladesh and India are graduating to a new level as the two countries have come closer over connectivity, ending years of distrust, said top government functionaries, trade analysts and diplomats yesterday.

"Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. I finished it. You know what I mean?”

A suicide bomber shouted "Allahu akbar" and blew himself up in a packed mosque in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 25

Traffic mismanagement and disruption to ferry services were among the major reasons behind the sufferings of the home-goers, who remained stuck in tailbacks on highways for hours during the Eid rush.

One person was killed and four others, including the pilot, were injured as a helicopter crashed in Ukhia upazila of Cox's Bazar yesterday.

Tanvir Kaderi, the man who killed himself during a police raid in Azimpur, had lived at a militant hideout in Bashundhara with the Gulshan café attack mastermind Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury.

For yet another year, the city's leather industry hub in Hazaribagh continues to face serious environmental pollution and health hazards for the people living in and around the area, thanks to the delay in relocating the tanneries to Savar.

Rawhide traders who have bought the skins of sacrificial animals at higher prices during Eid might run up losses for the high

Seeing is believing, but how often do jurors get to see a crime scene before adjudication? In courts, lawyers try to paint a word picture with their arguments and evidence, like photos and sketches, to recreate the crime scene but a lot of it is left to the imagination of judges and juries.

Two alleged criminals were killed in separate “incidents of gunfight” between police and their cohorts in Kishoreganj yesterday and Dhaka on Monday.

A Dhaka court yesterday convicted and handed down different jail terms to five men, including a lawyer and a manager of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, for their involvement in leaking the war crimes tribunal's draft verdict on Salauddin's case in 2013.

Search and rescue operation continues amid the rubble of collapsed Tampaco Foils factory in Tongi, as families of the missing people waited anxiously near the site to know the fate of their dear ones.

The militant suspect who killed himself during Saturday's police raid at an Azimpur den had left his job at a private bank last year, saying he would no longer associate himself with an organisation that lends money on interest.

Tomorrow is Eid-ul-Azha but the authorities of the 11 city corporations in the country were yet to launch a comprehensive public awareness campaign on the management of waste of sacrificial animals.

Jebunnahar Shila, wife of Major (retd) Jahidul Islam, had left the Azimpur militant den with her one-year-old daughter four days before Saturday's raid.

It would be surprising to learn that only six inspectors are in charge of examining and certifying around 5,500 registered boilers across the country a year, which is an undoable task for them.

Four more bodies were pulled out of the rubble of Tampaco Foils Ltd factory in Tongi yesterday, raising the death toll from Saturday's inferno to 29.

The hajj reached its high point yesterday when Muslims from across the world converged on a stoney hill in Saudi Arabia, a year after the worst tragedy in the pilgrimage's history.