It was a clear case of modern-day slavery.

A week of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean culminated yesterday with 700 migrants feared dead and survivors giving harrowing testimony of dozens of small children drowned.

Prices of some essentials whose consumption goes up during Ramadan are on the rise already despite adequate supply, much to the worries of the consumers.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reassured Japanese investors that the door of Bangladesh is open for them as she said some recent incidents would not frustrate the investment climate.

At the end of Sunrisers Hyderabad's rousing Indian Premier League (IPL) final victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore yesterday, Mustafizur Rahman was adjudged the Emerging Player of IPL 2016.

If you have ever had the opportunity to fly on the Airbus A380, the biggest jetliner in the world, nicknamed the Superjumbo, then you would love to know that the enormous engines, each producing around 70,000lbs of thrust, of these double-decker planes may contain a critical set of technologies invented by a Bangladesh-born scientist, RifatUllah.

“To tolerate such misdeeds is to destroy the existing social and religious harmony by inciting such acts that go against the

Families have all along alleged that their loved ones were picked up by law enforcers, who denied the claim. Now, weeks after nine

When Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad take the field at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore today in the quest for a first Indian Premier League (IPL) title, millions of fans in Bangladesh will pray that the magical Mustafizur Rahman will retain his fitness and finish this season's cash-rich T20 tournament with a flourish.

It was the deadliest phase of the ongoing polls to union parishads. At least 12 people, including two school-goers and two candidates, were killed in violence during yesterday's fifth-phase voting that was also marked by various irregularities.

Japan yesterday assured Bangladesh that it would fulfil its commitment to provide $6 billion, of which $1.5 billion would be released this year. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe gave the assurance during an official bilateral meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina in Nagoya.

Just after taking oath as the chief minister of West Bengal for the second time yesterday, Mamata Banerjee invited Bangladesh's prime

A schoolgirl was hacked to death and her three classmates were injured allegedly by a "drug addict" in Mohipur village of

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the developed countries, including the G7 nations, to be more gracious in transfer of technology, mobilising resource and building capacity of the poor countries to overcome the challenges of implementing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

A Singapore court yesterday charged six Bangladeshi workers with terror financing, over a month after they were arrested on the

Some 717 unions of 45 districts will go to polls today in the fifth phase against the backdrop of deadly violence during electioneering

Judicial powers of mobile courts should be increased by amending several relevant laws to effectively maintain law and order, check crimes and safeguard public interest, according to a number of executive magistrates and their superiors.

A youth was killed and around 30 others were injured in a clash between villagers and policemen when cops arrested a Chhatra Dal leader from Janatabazar village in Bhola's Sadar upazila last night.

An education ministry probe has found that the Piyar Sattar Latif High School committee had forced headteacher Shyamal Kanti Bhakta to resign with unproven allegation that he had hurt the religious sentiment of the Muslims.

Remember last year's Bollywood blockbuster Bajrangi Bhaijaan? Where its protagonist tries to take a mute six-year-old Pakistani girl back to her homeland to reunite her with her family?