Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury sharply criticizes finance minister AMA Muhith for proposing to cut the interest rate on all saving certificates in the proposed budget for 2015-16 fiscal.

The oil spilled from three wagons of a train that plunged into a Chittagong canal flows towards Karnaphuli river.

Police yesterday recovered the head of a man from a jheel at Shekhergaon in capital's Khilgaon.

At the end of a consistent series of wins the Tigers have emerged victorious defeating such a high-ranking ODI side as India.

A colossal backlog of around 3 million cases is pending with the courts across the country, including the Appellate Division and High Court Division of the Supreme Court (SC), causing immeasurable suffering to the litigants.

She was born in a dark age when female education was nearly impossible but she fought dauntlessly and overcame all barriers, paving the way for women's education.

Around 100 three-wheeler human haulers, locally called tempo, are driving down the wrong way along a busy Chittagong city road every

Five lawyers of convicted war criminal Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed will meet him at Dhaka Central Jail today for instructions regarding seeking a review of the Supreme

Bangladesh Coast Guard (East Zone) yesterday seized 3,576 smuggled Indian clothes, mostly saris, worth Tk 71.52 lakh.

Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) arrested a passenger of Malaysia Airlines after recovering four gold bars, weighing 4 kilogramme, worth Tk 2 crore, on his person in round

An unidentified youth, aged around 30, was found dead in bushes beside the Dhaka-Aricha highway at Boliarpur in Savar, outside the capital, yesterday.

Detectives arrested two Islami Chhatra Shibir activists in Bogra town's colony area yesterday.

Police arrested a robber with a submachine gun and two bullets at Rajarchar village in Barisal on Thursday night.

A boy yesterday died from electrocution when he tried to enter a mango orchard without knowing that the barbed wire fence was

A fire broke out at a garment factory at Bangla Bazar in Sadar upazila of Gazipur yesterday.

Dreams Crushed Like Bricks

The month of self-abnegation, purification and spiritual salvation begins today. Devotees abstain from food or drink from dawn to dusk and devote in intense prayer seeking mercy and guidance from the Almighty.

Business leaders have expressed concern on the proposed imposition of 4 percent value added tax (VAT) on e-commerce sales.

Bangladeshi citizens' deposits with various Swiss banks rose by 36.02 percent year-on-year in 2014, according to the Swiss central bank.

In a legal process spanning nearly five years, Jamaat-e-Islami's secretary general and former minister Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed has been handed the death penalty.