Amid reports about youths having left home to join militancy, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) last night published a list of 261

The high-profile Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference scheduled to be held in Dhaka from September 1 has been

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday arrested eight people, including two suspended employees of the Department of

The government plans to open adolescent-friendly corners at every Union Health and Family Welfare Centre in the country within the next five years to provide reproductive and sexual health services, with 100 such corners already serving.

Back in 1967 when the country attained self-sufficiency in fish production, the haors of Sunamganj produced one lakh tonnes of fish a year.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said a special investigation team, drawing members from all forces, has been formed to identify the militants, their patrons and the masterminds of the Gulshan and Sholakia terror attacks.

Since February 3, police have been looking for a 24-year-old youth who left home on that day and didn't come back.

His expertise in criminal laws matters little. What is a must for his appointment as a prosecutor is his loyalty to the party in power.

The government has taken various initiatives to thwart further terror attacks following reports that militants may try to carry out attacks similar to the Gulshan café and Sholakia Eidgah attacks.

A 16-hour joint drive carried out by about 450 law enforcers to root out militant dens in remote char (shoal) areas of Bogra ended with recovery of nine Jihadi books, six sharp weapons, a coil of wire and five empty boxes of SMG magazines yesterday.

The capital has seen an early outbreak of dengue as compared to previous years and the situation could take a turn for the worse in the months to come.

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against 41 people, including Rana Plaza owner Sohel Rana, in the murder case filed over the building's collapse in 2013.

The Supreme Court yesterday ordered the owners of 154 tanneries in the city's Hazaribagh to pay Tk 10,000 in daily compensation for damaging the environment in the area.

Rajya Sabha, the upper House of Indian parliament, yesterday denounced "senseless and barbaric" acts of violence in various

“This drive shouldn't be belittled. It's a major drive. It can't be said that every big drive would bring success. But it is a successful

The government has all the information about the youths who are choosing wrong paths and intending to be involved in militant activities, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said yesterday.

Three police officers were shot to death and three others wounded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana yesterday, in what authorities said was an ambush less than two weeks after a black man was killed by police, sparking nationwide protests.

Some of the suspected Gulshan café attackers and their associates might have stayed at a Pashchim Shewrapara flat in the capital and moved to another flat in Bashundhara Residential Area just two days before the bloody siege, said police officials.

Since November last year, Dhaka Metropolitan Police started keeping records of house owners and tenants in the city, and by now it has information of some 90 percent home owners and tenants.

Amid concerns over the rising threat of militancy, unidentified assailants attacked a baul akhra (den) in a remote Chuadanga village early yesterday, leaving four bauls, including two women, injured.