We are taken aback when the minister for Road Transport and Bridges goes on record to state that unfit buses are kept on the roads to ease public suffering.

Although nearly three and half months have elapsed since the government increased the train fares, the railway services remain horribly poor as were in the past.

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat has emphasised on working together globally to fight terrorist group Islamic State “instead of trying to find out whether it has any presence in Bangladesh or not”.

This is the second editorial that we have to write in a space of less than two weeks on the food crisis in Thanchi. It does not seem that anyone in the government is too concerned about what is happening there.

This paper has run more than one story in the last two months on the proliferation of faulty and counterfeit CNG-conversion of petrol-driven vehicles in Dhaka.

Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu says both newspapers and electronic media are now enjoying “full freedom” under the Sheikh Hasina-led present government.

The United States urge Bangladeshi citizens to remain cautious about ‘malicious people’ who are alluring Bangladeshi citizens with fake claim about Diversity Visa (DV) though Bangladesh is no more an eligible country for the DV programme.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says around 1,000 volunteers will be deployed at 14 spots on different highways ahead of the Eid-ul Fitr to ensure smooth vehicular movement.

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the barbaric terror attack on a nightclub in Orlando that has claimed the lives of 50

Three agonizing months have passed for the parents of Tonu and they still have not been able to find out how she died. This

A number of international groups working on press freedom and freedom of expression urge urgent and concrete steps by the United Nations (UN) to reverse the deteriorating climate for free expression in Bangladesh.

Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu says Bangladesh does not need assistance of any foreign country or government to protect the minority community.

Former vice chancellor of Dhaka University Maniruzzaman Miah died at a hospital in Dhaka today at the age of 81. He breathed his last at Square Hospital around 11:45am.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina strongly condemns and expresses deep shock at the death of 50 people in a terrorist attack on a nightclub in the USA.

We fully endorse the state minister for telecommunication's call to do away with the supplementary duties (SD) on telecom services...

Bangladesh has made encouraging progress in increasing the number of enrollment in schools and yet 1.7 million children find themselves toiling in the informal sector of the economy...

The government has gone into a weeklong anti militant drive after announcing the date and time of its commencement. Ironically

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two outlaws from a char area in Tangail Sadar upazila on Friday afternoon.

We have been covering the excesses committed by ruling party men from time to time. This time round a forest official got the

Election Commission (EC) plans to enroll the people of ex-enclaves as voters within three months in addition to providing them with national identity (NID) cards.