“It took eight hours to reach Tangail from Dhaka which should not have been more than three hours.”

Long tailbacks on Dhaka-Tangail and Dhaka-Chittagong highways left hundreds of people stranded for hours yesterday causing immense sufferings to them.

The government yesterday removed the Swadhinata Padak (Independence Award) of BNP founder Ziaur Rahman from the National Museum.

Summit Group has teamed up with international lenders and companies to raise $2.5 billion in equity and loans for setting up

Expressing optimism that not a single citizen would remain hungry and poor in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her party does politics for changing people's fortune.

The soon to be built $1.49 billion Rampal coal-fired power plant has generated concern and controversy among the citizens,

Getting off a car, she walked into the compound of an English medium school in the capital's Dhanmondi area. She then stood in a queue of students of the school, equipped with several closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at different points.

“Over the years thousands of Laotians have been killed or injured. Farmers tending their fields, children

Demanding the government scrap the Rampal power plant project, green activist Sultana Kamal yesterday said they were

The National Committee for Saving the Sundarbans (NCSS) yesterday responded to the answers to “10 questions”

Superintendent of Police Babul Akter has been relieved of his job, bringing an end to confusion over his job status since he

Islamic State of Bangladesh (ISB), founded in Singapore in March, planned to wage “jihad” in Bangladesh from the northern district of Panchagarh, according to a court document.

Expressing dismay over Ankara's reaction to the execution of war criminal Mir Quasem Ali, Dhaka yesterday said that such

Thirteen lakh public servants of the country will enjoy an extended vacation during Eid-ul-Azha, though not as long as the last

A woman of Bangladeshi origin and her ex-partner were found dead on Sunday in a house in Smithfield, a suburb of Sydney in Australia.

The freedom fighters decorated for valour and the injured freedom fighters would get more than double their monthly

Bangladesh ended their brilliant AFC U-16 Championship Qualifiers campaign with a hundred per cent record after thrashing

The Sundarbans, a magnificent and unique ecosystem of the world, faces an existential crisis today with the coal-fired power

It was indeed a job well done by Biman Bangladesh Airlines -- sending all would-be hajis to Saudi Arabia by the deadline. But the success story was marred by sufferings of around 300 other passengers, specially women and children.

Terming it a brazen interference in Bangladesh's domestic affairs, Dhaka yesterday protested Islamabad's statement on Saturday's execution of war criminal Mir Quasem Ali.