Controller of the Office of the Chief Controller of Imports and Exports (CCI&E) Md Shahidul Haque, who was filmed taking bribes from service seekers, was withdrawn from his office yesterday and attached to the commerce ministry.

Amid police failure to find him in nine days, ruling Awami League lawmaker Manzurul Islam Liton yesterday filed a petition with the

The LGRD ministry is seeking changes to the local government laws allowing political parties to nominate candidates in local body

A Japanese team has sought cooperation from the Rangpur district administration in the investigation into the Kunio murder case.

The newborn, rescued by a stray dog last month, has found a new home.

Two powerful bombs exploded near the main train station in Ankara yesterday morning, targeting a peace rally and causing carnage,

Investigators have yet to make any headway in the probe into the recent killings of two foreigners in Bangladesh. Police officials refrain

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that BNP chief Khaleda Zia is conspiring from abroad to destabilise

Police yesterday released two private bank officials, who were detained in Rajshahi on Friday, after questioning them over the murder of

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has hailed Bangladesh's efforts to integrate more women in the workforce and singled it out as an

The United Kingdom apprehends more attacks on westerners in Bangladesh and those could be indiscriminate.

Rangpur police yesterday detained two private bank employees from Rajshahi in connection with the murder of Japanese national Hoshi Kunio.

Tunisian civil society groups won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for helping to create the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring, at a time when the country is under threat from jihadist violence.

Administrative and legal action may be taken against a senior government official, who was filmed taking bribes from service seekers on a number of occasions at his Motijheel office in the capital.

The picture of a smiling child in a green sleeveless shirt caught attention of many after it was published in a national Bangla daily last month.

Malaysia has appointed a private company to manage recruitment of Bangladeshi workers under the new G2G Plus system, despite fear that the firm will monopolise the hiring process and indulge in irregularities.

Though the government has tightened security for foreign nationals in the city's diplomatic zone and elsewhere in the country, the Canadian High Commission has postponed its planned reception to mark the International Day of the Girl Child scheduled for October 12.

The number of Bangladeshi pilgrims who died in last month's stampede during Hajj has risen to 63.

Lingering shortage of train operators and other essential staff for the past two decades has hobbled the services of Bangladesh Railway, the largest public transport sector in the country. Years of attrition, corruption, interference in appointments from powerful quarters and legal wrangling are responsible for the sorry state of the once most effective and cheap transport system for millions.

A case has been filed against ruling party lawmaker Manzurul Islam Liton, who allegedly shot a 10-year-old boy recently, and nine “of his men” on charges of vandalising a house and looting its corrugated tin sheet roofs and furniture in a Gaibandha village.