Unidentified gunmen last night hurled a crude bomb inside a Hindu temple in Dinajpur and opened fire at its entrance, injuring two people.

Three weeks on and the Bangladesh Premier League has entered its final and arguably most exciting phase. From six teams, the battle will now be fought between the last four: Comilla Vikings, Rangpur Riders, Barisal Bulls and Dhaka Dynamites.

Pakistan went to the International Court of Justice and presented notorious Nazi murderer Eichmann's defense

A mob, brought together by a call over loudspeakers from mosques, beat eight robbers to death when they were taking away rice sacks at Araihazar of Narayanganj early yesterday, police and locals said.

The future of the Padma bridge will depend largely on how river training is done to keep such a meandering river under control during and after its construction. River training is the most challenging job for building the country's largest bridge because of the Padma's unpredictable characteristics, riverbank erosion, riverbed scouring and flash flood, say experts.

The ruling Awami League has given its rebel candidates a 24-hour ultimatum to withdraw their candidacies.

“The attitude of the Election Commission is actually a reflection of the society where discrimination against minorities is deep-seated."

The Supreme Court yesterday commuted the death sentence of Tofayel Ahmed Joseph, one of the “top-listed terrorists of the 1990s”, to life term imprisonment for killing Freedom Party Leader Mostafizur Rahman Mostafa in 1996.

Bangladesh presents a dismal picture of human rights as the world observes the United Nations Human Rights Day today, say rights defenders.

Even though Abul Kayes Ripon holds a top post in Feni district Awami League, he could not run for mayor in Feni municipality as an independent since his local MP's men did not let him.

The villainy of ZA Bhutto and his rogue country put Bangladesh at a serious disadvantage when it started preparing for the trial of the 195 War Criminals. As a new country without much international diplomatic clout and its attempts for UN membership vetoed by Pakistan's ally China, Bangladesh had to consider the fate of the Bangladeshis held hostage by Pakistan.

To address the grievances of people affected by land acquisition for the Padma bridge, the government has taken up a plan to train them for new jobs and enable them to find alternative ways of livelihood.

Illegal capital flight from Bangladesh surged 33.78 percent year-on-year to $9.66 billion in 2013 through trade misinvoicing and other channels, according to a report of Global Financial Integrity. The highest in a decade, the amount was more than six percent of the country's GDP and one-third of the export receipts in 2013. It is three times the size of average foreign direct investment Bangladesh received in recent times.

Ruling Awami League lawmaker from Natore-2 Safiqul Islam Shimul yesterday apologised for violating electoral code of conduct and

Before the Awami League could properly tame its rebel candidates in the municipal polls, the party now has a new headache: its

An operative of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has confessed his involvement in the killing of Japanese man Kunio Hoshi in Rangpur, claim police.

The landscape at the Padma bridge site is changing fast. Large excavators and cranes, dump trucks, bulldozers, loaders and dredgers are in operation round the clock on both sides of the Padma at Mawa and Janjira, around 50kms from the capital.

The cost of building a pipeline in the Bay of Bengal, for unloading fuel from tankers in the deep sea to storage facilities on mainland, went over five times higher than the initial estimate.

A five-year-old boy died after he fell into a sewer in the capital's Shyampur yesterday.

'“In the name of God and a united Pakistan,” Dacca is today a crushed and frightened city.' These are the immortal lines from Simon Dring's report that defined the Pakistan army's terrible vengeance on the unarmed Bangalis in East Pakistan in March 1971.