The migration issue will remain crucial in 2016, observes Sir Peter Sutherland, special representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) on Migration and Development.

United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for International Migration Peter Sutherland arrives in Dhaka on a three-day visit Tuesday.

Saudi Arabia has sought two lakh female workers from Bangladesh, says Nurul Islam, minister for expatriates' welfare and overseas employment ministry.

Bangladesh will negotiate with the international community in an upcoming conference to adopt comprehensive policies on the migration issue.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.