Following intelligence warning, the government Sunday night beefed up security measures at the three international airports in the country, officials concerned said.

Three professional killers had shot dead Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella as part of a conspiracy to create anarchy, put pressure on the government and send a message to foreigners that they are not safe in Bangladesh, police claimed yesterday.

Most of the 87 people, injured in the Hossaini Dalan blasts early Saturday, have left hospitals after treatment.

Only 29 of 350 lawmakers of the current parliament participated in the process of enactment of 30 laws in 14 months, indicating their

A Gaibandha court has yet again rejected bail petitions of Awami League lawmaker Manjurul Islam Liton in two cases filed for shooting

Even though Kakoli Biswas begged for her husband Ananta Biswas' life, a mugger beat him up mercilessly and his getaway driver ran

As a nation Bangladeshis are religious-minded but not zealots. Not all who join Tazia procession are necessarily Shias. All Muslims take

The Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) that struck the gathering in front of the city's Hossaini Dalan early hours Friday have been used in the country by militant outfits in the past. Operatives of banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Harkat-ul Jihad (Huji) have the expertise to make them and the materials are also available in the country. But any third party, like Islami Chhatra Shibir, might acquire this know-how, investigators said.

He was in class-IX when he had to drop out of school. Poverty, a common foe to countless talents in Bangladesh, forced him to fend

An elderly couple was stabbed dead by some criminals at Madhya Bazar in the district's Durgapur upazila yesterday.

The Saudi authorities have announced new labour regulations to protect workers' rights by bringing employers under strict rules including financial penalty.

Hindu devotees yesterday bade farewell to Goddess Durga and her children with solemn immersion of their idols, ending the five-day-long festival, the biggest of its kind for the Hindu community in Bangladesh.

A man was killed in an alleged gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion at Badda in the capital early yesterday.

The youth, who stabbed a police officer to death in the capital's Gabtoli on Thursday, is a member of a large gang that assembled in the city to carry out subversive activities, investigators said yesterday.

The holy Ashura will be observed in the country today to commemorate the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA).

An armed gang abducted three people from Ramu in Cox's Bazar early yesterday, less than a month after two tourists from the capital

Although a major chunk of the secondary textbooks for the next academic year have already reached different upazilas, the printing job

At least one person was killed and about 87 others were injured in homemade bomb explosions in front of Hossaini Dalan in old Dhaka early hours today.

Hindu devotees were both happy and sad at the same time yesterday -- the mother Goddess had been with them for the last few days and now she was set to leave the world for another year.

“It is very wrong of certain embassies to issue such directives, very wrong of them.”