The Bihar election results yesterday saw Grand Alliance leaders Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad have the last laugh as they decimated the BJP-led NDA in a bitterly-contested assembly polls.

Amnesty International (AI) has caused fury and rage in the minds of Bangladeshis with its latest statement in support of two war criminals awaiting death – SQ Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.

Denying the existence of Islamic State in Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said a local and foreign conspiracy is afoot to establish that cohorts of IS are active in the country.

Two persons have been handed down the death penalty for killing 13-year-old Rakib by pumping air into his rectum in Khulna, an incident that sparked outrage all over the country three months ago.

It was the common people who played the key role to ensure justice for the gruesome murder of 13-year-old Rajon in Sylhet.

Rajon and Rakib. The teen boys, both aged 13, from Sylhet and Khulna were killed by some brutes in July and August. The barbaric murders shook the nation to its core and stirred massive outcries in the social and mainstream media. Yesterday, two courts in the two districts sentenced six people to death for their murders. A Sylhet court yesterday handed down death penalty to four people for the brutal killing of 13-year-old Rajon that stirred a huge outcry all over the country.

Any young man, or even an older one, who fancies himself a womaniser is hereby put on notice: harass any young girl in Lalmonirhat and you might just get more than you bargained for.

The police yesterday suspended three constables of Industrial Police-1 for “not helping their colleagues” when they were attacked at a

Detectives claimed to have arrested seven Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members, including four Pakistanis, in the capital's airport area on Friday night.

Two courts in Sylhet and Khulna are set to deliver verdicts today in the cases filed over the barbaric killings of two teenage boys that stirred a massive outcry at home and abroad.

The recent attacks on two young publishers have further shrunk the space for the country's creative book publishing industry, which is already struggling to survive against the advent of digital technology. Publishers and writers say that despite the vacuum created by the death of popular writer Humayun Ahmed, who had attracted a huge pool of young readers since the late 1980s, the publishing scene has been vibrant with young publishers setting a new trend to bring out books on science, philosophy and humanism.

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Many residents of Chittagong metropolis are forced to buy food or use alternative means to cook as they have been experiencing severe gas crisis for the last one week.

As Bangladesh kick off another series against Zimbabwe in Mirpur today, the hosts may not get too many plaudits for a home success like they had received following triumphs over Pakistan, India and South Africa. Instead, anything other than a win against their struggling opponents could be judged as a disappointing outcome.

The law ministry has moved to take disciplinary action against the Chandpur district and sessions judge after a judicial probe found the

A Taiwanese couple was attacked in their home in the capital's Uttara allegedly by three of their former employees early yesterday

Entering HR Textile Mills Limited in Savar, one would be surprised to see babies playing and mumbling in a 3,500-square-feet area designated for childcare.

When Mamun-ur-Rashid landed in Istanbul in an early May afternoon, he thought his dream of a better life in Europe was just steps away. "My heart thudded for a minute there," he says.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, yesterday urged

Bangladesh and the Netherlands have agreed to work more closely for the implementation of Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 to make the delta safe and productive for its people.