Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury entered Bangladesh in 2013 and had made banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh even more radical and terrifying.

A tip-off from a top militant, who thought it's about time he shunned the path of terrorism and returned to normal life, helped detectives track down the alleged mastermind of Gulshan attack, Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury. A close aide to Tamim, the militant revealed to law enforcers the possible hideout of the terror kingpin.

The setting up of a coal-based power plant near the Sundarbans is an “anti-state activity” of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said BNP

Declaring zero tolerance against militancy, the government has concentrated on rooting it out using law enforcement agencies. But in the absence of any comprehensive anti-terrorism campaign, the government has not yet sufficiently focused on the phenomenon termed in the West “lone wolf” -- in which an ideologically motivated loner takes upon himself or herself to indulge in an act of terrorism.

The BNP yesterday said it would be suicidal for the Awami League government to revoke the Swadhinata Padak (Independence Award)

The Padma river in Rajshahi city is likely to cross the danger level by this evening as India has begun releasing water through the

Agitating students of Jagannath University (JnU) yesterday announced that they would stage a two-day sit-in programme from tomorrow on their campus to press home their demand for residential halls on the land of Dhaka Central Jail.

It was a burning question, an issue that had been bothering Bangladesh's cricket fans for the last one-and-a-half months. Would England stick to the schedule and tour Bangladesh in October this year? Or would they follow Australia's path and postpone the series due to security concerns?

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday claimed that there was political instigation behind the Gulshan and Sholakia attacks.

He had a passion for music from his childhood and loved to play guitar for his family and friends. He also used to write down the lyrics of his favourite songs in a diary.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will brief the media today on the Rampal power project close to the Sundarbans amid concerns over the coal-fired plant's environmental impacts on the world's largest mangrove forest.

“I do not know if Messi's retirement was a set-up to help us forget about the fact that we lost three finals in a row.”

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called upon Bangladesh's legislature to scrap proposed cyber-security legislation that would impose severe penalties for disseminating online material deemed to be "anti-state or a threat to national security or public order."

US Secretary of State John Kerry will begin a three-day official visit to Bangladesh and India from Monday to hold discussion with top leaders of the two neighbouring countries to give shape to closer Indo-Bangla-US cooperation to counter terrorism and violent extremism in Bangladesh.

Farmers, in near future, may no longer need to queue up at banks for farm credits nor need to go to the banks or kiosks to withdraw cash. All they would need to do is use their preloaded debit cards to buy agro-inputs.

Out on bail in a case filed for militancy, suspect Moinul Hasan Shamim alias Sifat took part in the killing missions of publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan and university student Riyad Morshed Babu last year, police said.

Default loans have dogged the country's banking sector for nearly three decades now, despite various reform efforts -- an alarming pattern that has damaged the economy and deprived honest borrowers of funds.

Grameen Foundation has strongly protested an Associated Press article that said Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus runs the foundation and it received USAID funding because of the Bangladeshi microcredit pioneer's friendship with Hillary Clinton when she was the US secretary of state.

Successful execution of a plot to kill writer-blogger Avijit Roy encouraged pro-al-Qaeda militant outfit Ansar Al Islam to hatch another plan to kill publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan last year, police said yesterday.

An earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hit different parts of the country and India, Myanmar and Thailand yesterday afternoon.