ACCORDING to news reports some positive developments have been made into the murder investigation of the two foreign nationals.

Today is the 49th death anniversary of Justice Mohammed Ibrahim.

Md Ashraful Haque, project director for Ghorashal Power Plant Unit-6, died of a cardiac arrest on Sunday night. He was 56.

Today is the 36th death anniversary of Mukundalal Sarker, a prominent leader of anti-British movement and a freedom fighter.

We are concerned at the lack of progress in addressing the demands of a section of students and guardians who are calling for an independent probe to ascertain the veracity of their claim that the entrance exam question paper was indeed leaked.

At 36 percent, Bangladesh has fared better than most South Asian countries in terms of women's participation in the workforce and the World Bank has rightly hailed the country as a model to emphasise the need for investing more on women.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has hailed Bangladesh's efforts to integrate more women in the workforce and singled it out as an

The girl fainted in the classroom because of unbearable pain. When the student of class IX was taken to hospital, she was declared

It is one of those issues families do not like to air in public. Mentally challenged children or adults are not talked about and are usually hidden away from sight.

Lost or abandoned children in Bangladesh are denied the chance of a normal childhood, as highlighted by a Daily Star report yesterday. If unclaimed by their

Nothing can explain away the bombing of the hospital being run by the Doctors Without Borders in Kunduz on October 3.

It is undoubtedly great news that Bangladeshi scientists will be conducting field test on a vitamin A-enriched rice variety called Golden Rice, prior to taking it to the production phase.

Abdul Mannan Howlader, former president of Barisal Bar Association and a public prosecutor, died at a Barisal hospital

Today is 30th death anniversary of former sportsman Mahmudun Nabi Tarek, son of former district registrar AKM

The Shomaj Rupantor Oddhyaon Kendra (Social Transformation Study Center) has arranged a commemoration lecture on Abdul Karim Shahitya Bisharad at the Bangla Academy today at 4:00pm.

It is disheartening to note that the emergency unit of the country's prime hospital for accident victims, National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor), is suffering due to mismanagement and inadequate staff.

That a temporary staff engaged with Dhaka court has managed to forge bail documents for seventy inmates charged with dealing in drugs, arms and ammunition over a period of five months speaks volumes of the state of the principal jail in the country.

Saidur Rahman Master, a freedom fighter of Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur, died of throat cancer at his residence on

For Moni (not her real name), the six-month prison sentence became a period when she learnt skills, subsequently making herself independent for the first time in life.

Taposh Sarker would repeatedly tell his mother that bad days would be over soon.