KSA keen to recruit more workers from Bangladesh

Saudi Arabia expresses its willingness to recruit more male workers and trained female domestic workers from Bangladesh to meet up the demand of their domestic market.
31 December 2015

Rangpur journo killed, body dumped beside highway

A journalist of a local daily is found dead on Dhaka-Rangpur highway in Rangpur city.
24 December 2015

Lone X-ray machine lies inoperative for 5 years

The only X-ray machine at Rajapur Upazila Health Complex has remained out of order for about five years, much to the suffering of patients.
9 December 2015

AG for upholding Nizami’s death penalty

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam prays to the Supreme Court to uphold the death sentence of war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami for his crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation war in 1971.
7 December 2015

Man killed over land dispute

A youth was murdered allegedly by one of his cousins over a land dispute at Raita village in Kalaroa upazila on Tuesday. The deceased,
28 October 2015

Cyber café owners threaten ‘digital hartal’

Cyber café owners threaten to enforce a “digital hartal” across the country by shutting down internet services to realize their six-point demand.
19 October 2015

Thousands suffer as bridge lies without repair for 9 days

Thousands of people, including a good number of students, have to cross the Dumki Varani canal on small boats as the iron bridge
7 October 2015

4th US-Bangladesh security dialogue held

The fourth security dialogue between Bangladesh and the United States is being held in Washington.
12 September 2015

European Union unveils bold refugee plan

European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker unveiled major plans yesterday to force the bloc to share 160,000 refugees and ease the burden on border states from the worst migration crisis since World War II.
9 September 2015

Cocaine detected in another barrel

Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) in its laboratory test finds presence of liquid cocaine in another barrel of the imported sunflower oil consignment at Chittagong Port.
8 September 2015

To cheers, they arrive

Hundreds of migrants streamed into Germany yesterday to cheers and "welcome" signs, joining the thousands who arrived the previous day as Austria called for an emergency EU summit on the continent's worst refugee crisis since World War II.
6 September 2015

3 female students die from Naogaon electrocution

Three female students has been electrocuted to death and thirteen others injured in a residential madrasa in Manda upazila of Naogaon this evening.
27 August 2015

Shibir leaders held, 65 crude bombs seized

Police in a drive seized 65 crude bombs, a machete, a knife and a dagger from Jamilnagar area in the district town early yesterday.
30 July 2015

BSF kills Bangladeshi on Naogaon border

Indian Border Security Force shoot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader near Sapahar border in Naogaon.
27 July 2015

Take steps against India’s river linking project: BNP

BNP expresses concerns over India's fresh move to implement the controversial river linking project and urges the government to take strong initiatives against it.
22 July 2015

Help catch the culprits!

Do you know any of the culprits who feature in the gory video of the brutal killing of 13-year-old Rajon? We need to catch and bring them to justice for their heinous crime.
13 July 2015

Lawmaker Haji Salim criticises BGB’s capability

Independent lawmaker Haji Salim raises question in the parliament over the “capability” of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) as one of its member still remains in custody of Myanmar's Border Guard Police.
22 June 2015

Unskilled, trapped in foreign lands

Alauddin Mollick, son of landless poor farmer Shahadat Mollick, had to drop out from school when he was in ninth grade due to abject poverty.
15 June 2015

Migrants victims of government’s euphemistic policy

Amid increasing problems and miseries many migrant workers underwent in the recent weeks, Indonesia government proudly announced that remittances sent by migrant workers earned the country 105 trillion rupiah (US$8.4 billion) in 2014, a significant increase from 70.6 trillion rupiah a year ago.
15 June 2015

The off-course task force

Taj Mohammad Baloch, a motor mechanic from Karachi town of Lyari, has worked in Oman, Iran and the United Arab Emiraes and speaks highly of his experiences there.
15 June 2015