It is with bewilderment and disappointment that we have learnt from this paper that the Saudi Arabian embassy in Dhaka is refusing to issue visas for male migrant workers because recruiting agencies are not sending enough female migrant workers.

We are shocked at the disappearance of Dr Muhammed Iqbal Mahmud, a medical officer of the Directorate General of Health Services, who was abducted 38 days ago from the heart of the capital by a gang of people riding a microbus.

A handbag of Leoni Margaretha Cuelenaere, ambassador of the Netherlands in Bangladesh, has been allegedly stolen in a programme on Dhaka University campus today.

Around 40 lakh people of the coastal belt near Sundarbans will be climate refugees if the much-talked-about coal-based power plant is implemented in Rampal, prof Anu Muhammad says.

The irregularities and corruption that allegedly vex the passport sector have reached a new level with about 50,000 expat Bangladeshis in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Malaysia unable to get machine readable passports (MRP) although they paid the requisite fees more than a year ago.

Abdus Salam Khan, a freedom fighter, who not only fought to give this country freedom, but had also continued to fight for social justice and simply provide people with a ray of hope, was brutally murdered recently.

Sukhi Akhter, 10, who continued receiving death threat from the alleged killers of her father, took part in the Primary

The authorities of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) started shifting hundreds of patients to different

Bangladesh retains its position in the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2016 as it is the third most peaceful country in South Asia. Although the position remains the same the last year, the index puts Bangladesh on the 83rd spot globally, up on the 84th in last year’s GPI.

On the dark night of July 1 in a Dhaka cafe, Faraaz lived up to his mother's teaching when he refused to desert his friends, though the terrorists gave him a chance to leave as he was a Muslim. He grabbed the sword in his right hand but was eventually killed for standing up to the brutes.

This paper's report of two policemen being caught while mugging an egg trader, is an appalling reminder of the extent to which some

A new EC is due in the next two months and a national election in the next two years. Regrettably, the current EC has not acquitted itself

Eminent writer and scientist Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal at a meeting in the town on Friday urged the students to develop studying

Around the world, from children to teenagers and even among adults, inline skating, commonly known as rollerblading, is a popular

Pope Francis creates 17 new cardinals, including Archbishop of Dhaka Patrick D'Rozario, elevating them in a time-honoured ceremony to an elite body that advises and elects popes.

Proposed citizenship law is likely to render many people stateless due to a number of shortcomings in its different provisions, observe legal experts.

Withdrawal of criminal cases against ruling party members on political grounds, through lobbying with the home ministry, goes completely against the essence of law and can easily lead to corruption and the abuse of power.

It is unfathomable that an engineering college that has been in operation since 2009 has neither permanent faculty nor requisite staff.

Allegations have arisen about corruption at every level of management in the state-owned Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation that has 26 mills under its umbrella.

We are alarmed by the recent reign of terror unleashed by the Myanmar security forces against the Rohingya population in the Rakhaine