The government drive to force commercial establishments out of residential areas in Dhaka has not only created fears of job loss but also raised questions as to how those establishments operated with government clearance when rules clearly say they cannot.

He had incited his cohorts to annihilate freedom fighters and pro-liberation Bangalees at a meeting in the Bangla month of

It was past 1:00am in the morning, but the media tribune at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro was still buzzing

The number of Bangladeshis seeking asylum in Europe rose from 10,000 in 2014 to 18,000 last year. It was only 7,000 in 2013.

Rejecting a police probe report, the High Court yesterday ordered a judicial inquiry into the public humiliation of

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday got bails in a sedition case and nine arson cases after she surrendered before two separate Dhaka courts.

Rab yesterday claimed to have arrested six suicide attackers who were planning to “carry out subversive activities” in the capital.

Bangladesh Bank has asked all banks and other financial institutions to freeze accounts if they belong to those whose names

Mizanur Rahman, a mason at a construction firm in Saudi Arabia, is worried about losing his job. His employer has recently expressed inability to continue some of the ongoing projects due to financial crisis.

Two sisters, who have been out of contact with family members in Khulna since April last year, are suspected to be in war-torn Syria.

The police yesterday instructed its field-level officials to take all-out measures to dismantle militant networks across the country and prevent them from getting fresh recruits. The superintendents of police of all the districts were given a list of 4,000 suspected militants in their areas and asked to hunt them down, say sources.

Around a dozen air-conditioned (AC) buses and 500 special rickshaws hit the streets of the capitals' Gulshan and Banani areas today.

Any private educational institution, wishing to hike salaries of its teachers and staff, cannot increase the monthly tuition fees of students more than 30 percent of the existing fees.

An emotional Russian team were celebrating their podium return in the men's Olympics gymnastics team event for the first time in 16 years after a chaotic buildup to the Games.

Twenty-five Bangladeshi workers have been stranded in a factory in Afghanistan for over seven months without work and salaries.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has assured some senior party leaders that she would consult with top leaders about forming different committees in future to avoid controversy.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday arrested 19 police constables in Pabna on charges of forging freedom fighter

A Taliban suicide bomb packed with ball bearings tore through a Pakistani hospital yesterday and killed at least 70 people,

He looks intelligent, his eyes a little dreamy. But behind those eyes lies the unrelentingly cruel, vicious and demented mind of a terrorist.

Prison walls are failing to contain a thriving terror web as militants behind bars apparently take advantage of lax surveillance to discuss ideas and make plans and keep their networks operational outside through visitors.