In an assault that bears the hallmarks of militant attacks, unidentified assailants yesterday hacked to death a local staff member of the USAID and his friend in a flat in the capital's Kalabagan, police said.

Physical assaults on children continue across the country despite protests by child rights activists, laws against corporal

The cabinet yesterday approved in principle a draft law specifying the procedures for investigation into allegations of misconduct or incapacity against a Supreme Court judge and the judge's removal by the Jatiya Sangsad.

In broad day light, bike-riding criminals gunned down a jail guard yards away from the gate of the country's largest high-

The United States last night strongly condemned the brutal killing of USAID official Xulhaz Mannan at his Dhaka home.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday accused the BNP-Jamaat clique of carrying out killings like the Kalabagan double-murder.

Police yesterday claimed that journalist Shafik Rehman disclosed the names of at least three more people involved in the

“Bangladesh is privileged to have Mustafizur Rahman,” Sunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner said after Mustafizur's

While a reported statement of Islamic State labelled him as a promoter of atheism, Prof AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee was a

Rajshahi University teachers are getting murdered one after another because the real perpetrators are not being tried, according to victim families and colleagues of the slain teachers.

The government has cut the prices of octane and petrol by Tk 10 a litre and diesel and kerosene by Tk 3 per litre to pass on to consumers the benefit of low fuel prices on the international market.

“This murder is a direct attack upon intelligence, culture and spirit of generosity, which were what Professor Karim was

“Rana Plaza was a symbol of poor compliance. Now it has emerged as one of the efforts towards better compliance.”

Bangladesh has signed the historic Paris Climate Agreement, aiming to take various measures to save the world from the

In an outrageous fun that turned tragic, fellow workers seriously injured a youth by pumping air through his rectum using a air

The election to 614 union parishads in the third phase of UP polls yesterday saw some stray incidents of violence and electoral

The Election Commission and the ruling Awami League claimed that the third phase Union Parishad elections were free and fair while

The trial for the killing of more than a thousand people in Rana Plaza collapse three years ago is yet to begin.

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) yesterday lauded the reforms made after the Rana Plaza disaster to ensure workers' safety at

He was a sitar player. All his life, he was devoted to music, culture and peace. His family members and colleagues don't believe he had enmity with anyone. He never said or wrote anything against any religion or hurt anybody's religious sentiment.