In a rather disturbing turn of events we have the news of two mayors from two very important city corporations – Rajshahi and Sylhet -- being unceremoniously suspended from their posts just as they were about to resume office.

It is a matter of pride for Bangladesh to host the largest gathering of parliamentarians from abroad, for the five-day Inter-Parliamentary Union conference. We warmly welcome the delegates and hope they will carry back good memories of our country.

The number of reports and editorials over the years we have published about jaywalking, especially on the Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, is staggering.

In 2014, eight remote shoals located twenty kilometres east of Bauphal upazila town in Patuakhali were formalised into Chandranip union

How did Habibur Rahman Habib, a former Rab man, who was among the 35 accused in the sensational seven-murder case in Narayanganj, continue

Sharmin was 15 when she, like thousands of other girls her age in rural Bangladesh was married off by her parents. She was to marry a man who was old enough to be her father but she took a stand and refused.

The chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) organised a seminar titled “Concerted Efforts Against Corruption” last week and

In a report published on its website, the UN Human Rights Committee has expressed concerns about the “high rate of extra-judicial

TK. 150 crore will be spent by the government to install internet monitoring equipment that it says will help combat militancy, clamp

The Cabinet has approved the draft of Road Transport Act 2017 on March 27.

Fisherfolk in the Sundarbans wilfully ignore the government ban on the use of fine-mesh current nets which is fast depleting various species of fish in the area.

We are sorry to see two reports and adjoining photographs published in this paper this Monday that speak volumes of the way our natural environment has been assaulted.

Three European Commission bodies have issued a joint letter to the Bangladesh embassy in Brussels last week stating that the government...

Road crashes have become the gravest risk to public safety, causing a large number of deaths every day.

It is nothing short of a tragedy that even after 46 years of independence, we have failed to preserve some of the most historic sites...

It is a heartening to hear that the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has appointed an organisation for independent assessment of the service quality of mobile operators in the country.

In the last seven days there have been three major extremist-related incidents, which luckily did not cause much casualty, although the aim of the aborted attempt to enter RAB premise in Uttara, where a mosque is located, on a Friday, is very clear.

Two Singaporean non-government organisations have sent a report to the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families (CMW) stating that Bangladeshi workers often face labour and debt bondage in that country.

Today marks the 46th anniversary of our independence. On this day, we pay our deep respects to the martyrs who laid down their lives

Following the Cabinet approval of the parliament's resolution to recognise March 25 as Genocide Day, today marks the first time following...