On the road to economic prosperity, the nation on its Independence Day yesterday resolved to build a corruption-free, transparent society with democratic values.

The rights of some six lakh Bangladeshi migrants in Malaysia are being seriously curtailed due to policies adopted by the Southeast Asian country as part of its efforts to combat a slowing economy.

The Rapid Action Battalion and detectives in Comilla yesterday quizzed the family members of Sohagi Jahan Tonu in connection with

Bangladesh will sign off from the ICC World Twenty20 after they take on New Zealand at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata today. Although the game, which starts at 3.30pm, has only an academic interest for Bangladesh after three straight defeats -- including that heart-

After six years, a candidate from the ruling Awami League-backed panel, Sammilito Ainjibi Samonnoy Parishad (SASP), has been elected

An alleged criminal was killed in a "shootout" with Rapid Action Battalion at Tongi in Gazipur early yesterday.

SM Sohel stooped over the keyboard in front, with close attention to a speaker, as he was trying to fix an image of a macaw over a text

The nation celebrates the 45th Independence and National Day today to pay tributes to the martyrs and valiant sons of the land who laid down their lives for the country's independence.

He was here only for his job. When the Liberation War broke out, he could have slipped out of the country to safety. But William AS Ouderland, who came to East Pakistan in the 70s as the CEO of Bata Shoe Company, chose to join the fight for the independence of Bangladesh. It was because of the “love and affection” he “felt for the Bangalee people”, as he once wrote in a letter to a friend.

The army authorities are providing full support to the police in investigating the murder of Sohagi Jahan Tonu near Comilla Cantonment

Nineteen toothbrushes, four broken pieces of miswak sticks, a broken part of a tablespoon, two plastic wrappings,

Under the original plan, the country's first-ever elevated expressway to connect the capital's north with the south was to complete in 2014. But the deadline was stretched time and again as the construction company failed to arrange funds for the Tk 8,940-crore project.

It does not matter much to the Election Commission whether or not the polling is mired in widespread violence and irregularities. It has got some canned words for the nation at the end of polling. And it has kept defending the flawed elections in the same old way for the last two years.

What was the common syndrome that almost every Bangladeshi experienced during the long night after that heart-breaking one-run

Business magazine Fortune has named Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as one of the greatest leaders of the world.

March 23, 1971 was an extraordinary day. It had always been observed as Pakistan's Republic Day. And yet this time in 1971, something different happened. Instead of the green and white flags with a crescent and a star of Pakistan, green flags with a red disc with the map of East Pakistan in golden colour superimposed, fluttered atop all buildings in Dhaka.

The government yesterday formally launched the country's first-ever health protection scheme to ensure healthcare for the poor. Under the pilot project titled Shasthyo Suroksha Karmashuchi (SSK), the government will provide health cards to one lakh extreme poor households in Kalihati, Madhupur and Ghatail upazilas of Tangail.

The nation today recalls the Black Night of March 25.

Border Guard Bangladesh personnel had no choice but to open fire to protect election officials and prevent unruly mobs from snatching ballot boxes during Tuesday's Union Parishad polls in Pirojpur and Cox's Bazar, the BGB chief said yesterday.

Global banking cooperative SWIFT has advised its user-banks in Bangladesh to employ appropriate security measures to eliminate risk exposure to malicious software in the wake of the attack on the central bank's reserves.