To express hatred, dustbins have been set up and named it after Chhatra League man Badrul Alam, who brutally hacked Sylhet Government Women's College student Khadiza Begum Nargis on October 3.

Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, ends with the immersion of goddess Durga.

We are deeply disturbed by the news published in this paper yesterday, according to which as many as 2,000 demarcation pillars on the Buriganga and the Turag were installed inside the river.

We want to heartily congratulate the Tigers, particularly Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, for leading from the front, in helping Bangladesh clutch a well deserved victory against England, in their 2nd One Day International match on Sunday.

About 2,000 Paul families in the district are doing brisk business making jhora on the occasion of Durga Puja, the

Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit Cambodia, Bangladesh and India from October 13 to 17.

More than three thousand lower-tier employees of the Wasa are having a ball at work, drawing twice or even thrice the amount of their basic salaries as overtime while the residents of Dhaka put up with acute water-logging...

In separate raids across Dhaka and its surrounding areas, 12 suspected militants were killed on October 8, 2016.

Around 20 percent of social enterprises in Bangladesh are led by women, according to a survey.

Task force responsible for monitoring the depth and natural flow of important rivers surrounding Dhaka today said 2,000 demarcation pillars, out of 6,000, are disputed.

Because of uninterrupted water supply and cost advantage over diesel-based pumps, irrigation using solar power is becoming more and more popular among farmers. Since 2012, 358 solar-based irrigation pumps, for example, have been installed to water crops.

We are constrained to say that in legislating the Foreign Donations Regulation Bill – 2016 the government has used its legislative power to enact laws to prevent public scrutiny of its performance as well as of other constitutional bodies. This will severely curtail the basic right of the citizens, who have elected their representatives to the parliament, to ventilate their views and opinions on these bodies.

When the inhabitants of the char areas in Lalmonirhat's Kaliganj upazila first heard that under the Rupkalpo 2021

A report by Child Rights Advocacy Coalition, a platform of 10 NGOs has revealed some chilling data – around 1,095 children were killed over the last four years.

Hilsa occupies a unique position in the culinary of Bangladesh, a delicacy that families eagerly await.

The five-day long Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, begins with enthusiasm and due religious fervour through the incarnation (Bodhon) of the goddess Durga at temples across the country.

Five upazilas in Paira union falling under Jessore district remain in various stages of submersion as the 21 sluice gates in Bhabodaha have remained inoperable for many years. Hence, a serious downpour recently closed over 200 schools and students suffer the consequences.

In a classic example of how mismanagement can hijack the benefits of a well-intentioned government programme, subsidised rice meant for the ultra poor is ending up in the market in four districts due to corruption by officials, dealers and local influential people.

At least 10,000 workers are passing hard days and the government is deprived of huge revenue as coal import through land customs

We have in the past few weeks editorialised what seems to be becoming a trend in many public and private medical institutions, the