The High Court issues a rule asking the authorities of icddr,b to explain under what authorities the human resource director has been holding her office.

Bangladesh's defence ministry has received five Mi-171Sh helicopters under a state credit contract of late 2013 from

Democracy is affected when powerful people crave more power, Editor of Prothom Alo Matiur Rahman told the newspaper's 17th founding

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu yesterday urged the mass media to refrain from publishing content that might directly or indirectly

An US delegation led by Counsellor of the US Department of State Ambassador Thomas Shannon will arrive in Dhaka today on a one-and-

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina once again set an example by paying tolls for her convoy of 52 vehicles while crossing Mayor Mohammad

Massive development work of road and rail infrastructure is underway to optimise benefits of the Padma bridge, said Road Transport

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that by building the Padma bridge with local funding, Bangladesh wants to show the world it is now capable of implementing any mega project on its own. Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project and river training work at Janjira, she said her government's decision to implement this dream project with own funding was a challenge.

Twenty female judges of the country in a daylong seminar yesterday discussed the challenges of implementing the domestic violence

The government has set up a computer incident response team (CIRT) at Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) to secure its online public

This year's English in Schools programme concluded yesterday through a daylong training at a Rajshahi city hotel where the 52

While the government's dream project Padma bridge is widely expected to boost the country's economy, there is also fear that it may take a heavy toll on the famous hilsa fish of the river.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday expressed apprehension over the municipality polls scheduled for December 30, saying

When it opens in 2018, the much-expected Padma Bridge will shorten travel time between the capital and the southern region, giving a major boost to trade and economic activities in the country, say experts. About a quarter of the country's population living in the southwest region will directly benefit from the 6.15-kilometre bridge as the travel time to and from Dhaka city will be cut short to about one-fourth of what it is now.

The future of the Padma bridge will depend largely on how river training is done to keep such a meandering river under control during and after its construction. River training is the most challenging job for building the country's largest bridge because of the Padma's unpredictable characteristics, riverbank erosion, riverbed scouring and flash flood, say experts.

Nazrul Islam, deputy press secretary to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and Sheikh Muhammad Rifat Ali, director of national Institute of

The High Court scraps a lower court order that placed Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna on a seven-day remand in a sedition case.

The High Court yesterday stayed for a month a government order that suspended Dinajpur Pourasava mayor Syed Jahangir Alam on charge of irregularities.

A global summit on business process outsourcing (BPO) begins in Dhaka with an aim to earn $1 billion from the sector in the next six years and create two lakh jobs.

The cost of building a pipeline in the Bay of Bengal, for unloading fuel from tankers in the deep sea to storage facilities on mainland, went over five times higher than the initial estimate.