Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and coastguards in a joint drive early yesterday arrested two forest robbers from Karamjal area of the Sundarbans.

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) calls upon the government to formulate separate laws to deal with the black money and benami (bought in other’s name) properties, within and outside the country.

Two children drowned in a pond in Chatmohar upazila of the district on Saturday morning.

All the 325 government primary schools and 18 community primary schools of the district remained closed yesterday as the district

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will accompany Indian Premier Narendra Modi during his Dhaka visit.

Armed Police Battalion detain four people and seize 18 kilogrammes of gold from their possessions in Jessore.

To venture into Rakhine Para of Moheshkhali Island's Gorakghata is to step into Southeast Asia. It's not only the Buddhist temple

Thousands of Afghans have lived for decades in the Indian city of Kolkata (Calcutta). Moska Najib and Nazes Afroz captured the stories of this little-known community.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court yesterday seeking its order on the government to exhume the body of Nargis Begum, who was allegedly raped and killed in India about two months back, for a post-mortem.

Beijing Foreign Studies University in China is going to introduce Department of Bangla in the coming year.

A tiger in one of India's most visited national parks has been branded a killer and caged in a zoo, sparking protests from wildlife activists who claim the tiger has been wrongly accused and unfairly condemned to live out his life in captivity.

A tribunal in Dhaka will deliver its verdict tomorrow in a war crimes case against Mahidur Rahman and Afsar Hossain Chutu of Chapainawabganj.

Muggers beat up and hacked two paddy traders on Shariakandi-Bogra road in Sharakandi upazila yesterday and took away Tk 3 lakh from

The main suspect in the rape of an elderly nun in West Bengal has been arrested, Indian police say.

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today congratulated Tulip Siddiq, granddaughter of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Rushanara Ali and Rupa Huq for winning the UK parliamentary polls.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to lay the foundation stone of Rabindra University at Shahjadpur Pilot High School ground in

The authorities of Bangladesh Railway on Tuesday knocked down some 150 illegal structures, including a two-storied market and a residential hotel, on railway land beside Chatmohar Railway Station in Pabna.

Salman Khan is known as the "bad boy" of Bollywood for as long as anyone can remember.

Bollywood star Salman Khan freed on bail, hours after being convicted of culpable homicide in a 2002 Mumbai hit-and-run case.

BNP urges Election Commission to cancel Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections alleging massive irregularities and demands fresh polls.