It showed up late but winter has finally arrived.

“Everything seems chaotic. I don't understand how the election will be fair. I am worried over this election.”

Migrants are increasingly participating in a globalised economy, notably in the services sectors, according to a report released Wednesday by the ILO.

Humanitarian organisations attempting to help the soaring numbers of people fleeing conflicts and natural disasters around the world are at "a breaking point," UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres warned on Wednesday.

The country's alem-ulema yesterday decided to issue a “fatwa” that Islam and its followers have no connection with militancy.

Imagine that you are at work, and right through your window you see the sun setting far away, shedding orange light on the world's third highest mountain, Kangchenjunga.

Students of Dhaka College yesterday clashed with traders on the stretch of Mirpur Road between New Market and Science Laboratory intersections, paralysing the city's busiest shopping hub for hours.

Law enforcers have so far failed to arrest any of the masterminds behind the trafficking of over 3,000 Bangladeshis through the Bay of Bengal this year. They have been carrying out drives to track down human traffickers and their ring leaders since the trafficking victims were rescued mostly from Thailand and Malaysia in May and June. In the last six months, law enforcers could only arrest around 400 alleged middlemen and local agents of human-trafficking networks, not any of the ring leaders.

“It is a very special 'Victory Day' for us, as some notorious razakars, who had committed crimes against humanity in 1971, have been hanged.”

The Supreme Court is likely to start next month hearing the appeal of war crimes convict Jamaat leader Mir Quasem Ali.

These lines are from a Mother's Day poem, “How I got Here”, composed by 12-year-old Onil Mark Mowling in May 1984 for his class to share his life story.

It was ZA Bhutto whose machinations were behind the brutal genocide in Bangladesh. Even before the blood had dried on his hands, Bhutto wanted to form a confederation with Bangladesh. But Bangabandhu gave him a befitting reply.

Buoyed up by the progress in war crimes trial being held to heal the wounds of the 1971 Liberation War, the nation yesterday pledged to make strides towards a prosperous future on its 45th Victory Day.

Western nations welcomed Saudi Arabia's new Islamic coalition against terrorism, but confusion over its role, even among its own members, may undermine its ambitions of tackling militancy and deflecting international criticism of Riyadh. "We look forward to learning more about what Saudi Arabia has in mind in terms of this coalition," US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said on Tuesday, a comment that underscored the uncertainty over how Riyadh's new initiative would work.

Even before the bloods of 30 million Bangalis had dried, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the villain behind the breakup of Pakistan and the political mastermind of genocide in 1971, had expressed an audacious proposal of Pakistan and Bangladesh uniting again.

It was a treacherous journey. On bull-carts and on foot. But it was the journey that finally led to the fall of Dhaka in 1971 and the victory for Bangladesh and its 75 million Bangalis.

"It is very good news that Bangladesh is making the Padma bridge with its own finance. Bangladesh has the capacity to do it on its own. Sometimes, good news comes after bad history.”

In her 72 statements on three national days, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia never mentioned the words Pakistani occupation army, Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams, who committed barbaric atrocities during the war.

Substandard, fake and even banned pesticides are making their way into the market mainly because of lax monitoring, posing a grave threat to safe food production and public health, experts say.

For someone who all his life has believed and preached that Ahimsa Paramo Dharma or non-violence is the ultimate dharma, it is not easy to take up arms and go to war.