His fractured left arm was bandaged while wounds were still fresh on his forehead and cheek and in the corner of one eye.

A Swedish couple of Bangladeshi origin, from whom five Jessore policemen allegedly took away $3000 on Thursday, got back their

Picking single candidates for the union parishad elections would be a daunting task for the ruling Awami League as the grassroots

Although the government has set March 1 as the new deadline for moving the tanneries to Savar, not a single factory building there is ready for relocation by the time. The central effluent treatment plant (CETP), the most essential component of the project, is not ready either. Hardly 50 percent work of the plant has been completed.

Bodies of three children were recovered from Tangail and Rangpur yesterday.

“Khaleda Zia must apologise to the nation for lying about the number of martyrs during the Liberation War.”

Two members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) were killed in a head-on collision between their vehicle and a truck in Narayanganj's Araihazar upazila yesterday.

The Jatiya Party ministers are not resigning from the cabinet now, party's presidium member and Leader of the Opposition Raushan Ershad said yesterday.

The US, Canada, the European Union and the International Labour Organisation yesterday said Bangladesh made a remarkable progress in workplace safety over the last two and a half years, but it needed to improve labour rights.

The police claim to have thwarted an Islami Chhatra Shibir bid to create communal violence in Chittagong.

Detectives yesterday claimed to have made the first arrest over the sexual assaults on women during the Pahela Baishakh celebrations on Dhaka University campus last year.

The long pervasive culture of parliament boycott by main opposition MPs has significantly changed with Jatiya Party lawmakers attending all the 174 sittings of the current Jatiya Sangsad over the last two years.

President Abdul Hamid yesterday asked policemen to give special attention so that nobody is harassed by them while they carry out their duties.

The Supreme Court yesterday asked the authorities concerned to accept the case if Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabby files one over the alleged police torture on him.

Bangladeshi scientists have successfully field-tested a genetically modified (GM) potato resistant to late blight, one of the most devastating plant diseases caused by fungal attack. After the last trial is over in February, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) will approach regulators for approval of the RB (blight resistant) gene-infused potato.

A parliamentary body yesterday sent back a bill to the Cabinet Division, saying the lawmakers' remuneration and allowances should be increased further so that their pay is higher than the bureaucrats'.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the police officials to take strong action against those committing crimes and injustice, no matter how influential they are or what political affiliation they have.

Millions of gallons of untreated wastewaters, mainly from industries, are being dumped into the rivers around Dhaka city through as many as 185 outlets every day.

Retired additional secretary Abdur Rashid Khan had applied for a residential plot in Rajuk's Uttara Model Town in 1998. Nearly two decades later, all he has is an allotment letter but no plot. Rashid, now quite old, said he had written scores of letters to the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) over the years but all his words fell on deaf ears.

Reckless driving virtually wiped out two families yesterday as slack enforcement of traffic rules continue to give law-breaking drivers impunity, exposing thousands of road users to the constant danger.