The Election Commission plans to begin local government elections in the first week of October, starting with the haor and northeastern districts -- Sunamganj, Netrokona, Kishoreganj and parts of Habiganj.

Small institutional and procedural reforms are essential alongside major state and constitutional reforms if Bangladesh is to achieve meaningful change, said Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) Executive Chairman Hossain Zillur Rahman yesterday.

Three-day exhibition extended to today

Home minister says India cannot avoid responsibility for statements Hasina makes from Delhi

Scheduled to inspect Matarbari projects, visit Hefazat chief

Tarique calls for caution over political involvement of professionals

Just 15 doctors against 81 posts, forcing patients to travel to Barishal and Dhaka for care

Over a lakh visitors are estimated to flock yearly to watch farmers ferry fruit through canal markets

Aminul Islam makes the claim after tribunal judges inspect alleged secret detention facility at DGFI headquarters

Rally marks 37th founding anniversary of Doctors Association of Bangladesh

Prices of fish, poultry chicken and eggs have risen in the capital’s kitchen markets over the past week, while prices of vegetables declined.

Farmers producing vegetable saplings on floating seedbeds in Pirojpur’s Nazirpur upazila have been counting losses due to sharp drop in market demand amid prolonged rainfall.

India yesterday said it does not endorse anything said by deposed Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina and other Awami League leaders at a media event in New Delhi on August 5.

When Mohammed Shahabuddin resigned as president on July 24, the spotlight immediately shifted to who would succeed him at Bangabhaban.

The government said yesterday that former Bangladesh cricket captain Shakib Al Hasan has no prospect of returning t

The winding canals branching off the Sugandha river weave through the famed floating guava orchards of Jhalakathi and Pirojpur, creating one of southern Bangladesh’s most distinctive agricultural landscapes.

Dhaka division has emerged as the country’s dengue hotspot, recording 6,871 cases, including 4,404 infections in Dhaka city alone this year.

Road repairs and heavy vehicle pressure leave thousands of travellers stranded for up to five hours

Veteran grassroots leader and convener of Bhobodoh Water Drainage Movement Committee died on Wednesday

Police arrested a 22-year-old man yesterday in connection with the alleged rape of a nine-year-old schoolgirl in Jashore Sadar upazila.