AFTER a hiatus of nine years, the government has formed a panel to review ways certain state-owned power companies may off-load

Shillong police is likely to produce Salahuddin Ahmed before a court tomorrow, as doctors at the Indira Gandhi health institute might discharge BNP leader on that day, police and hospital sources said.

AMIDST the grisly reports of human trafficking through the seas comes another shocker : Bangladeshis, posing as government officials, entering foreign countries with fake passports.

THE aftershocks of the massive quakes epicentered in Nepal have resulted in damages to some 61 primary schools in nine upazilas of Pabna district.

George W Bush has gone down in history as one of the world's most evil people, just behind Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.

Today is the first death anniversary of Mominul Haq, an organiser of the 1971 Liberation War and a cousin of Bangabandhu Sheikh

A three-member team from St Joseph School and College became the national level champion of Stockholm Junior Water Prize

THE serial killing of bloggers in Bangladesh, with little development as far as catching and punishing the assassins are concerned, has compelled the Human Rights Forum (Bangladesh) to call upon the government to provide protection to online writers/activists, many of them still on the hit-list of religious extremists.

WE are heartened to note that the government is taking active steps to integrate the marginalised transgender community into mainstream society.

The meeting of Chittagong University Senate, scheduled to be held tomorrow to form a three-member panel for electing CU vice-

The third convocation of Asian University for Women (AUW) was held at the university in Chittagong city yesterday. AUW Trustee Young

Siraj Uddin Bulbul; father of Mazhar Uddin Omi, sports reporter of Dhaka Tribune, died due to brain haemorrhage at the National Heart

Today is the ninth death anniversary of Golam Rasul Mallik, a freedom fighter and founding editor of Eastern News Agency.

Zahurul Haque Mamun, publicity secretary of district AL in Lalmonirhat Sadar, died of heart attack in Rangpur Medical College Hospital on

Freedom fighter Sayed Asaduzzaman, managing director of M/s Little House Ltd, died on Tuesday at Bardem Hospital. He was 75.

WE are deeply worried at the reports that after a long two weeks boats full of Bangladeshi and Rohingya immigrants are still stranded

There madrasa teachers in Dinajpur were arrested by police for alleged torture of a student accused of stealing on May 19. That a Class II

Fisherman Muchtar Ali broke down in tears when he set eyes on the overcrowded boat carrying desperate, starving Rohingya off the coast of Indonesia before going to the rescue of a vessel that has become emblematic of Asia's human-trafficking crisis.

Midwives are the gatekeepers of maternal and newborn healthcare system, and majority of Bangladesh's maternal deaths could be

In the wake of a much publicised international humanitarian crisis relating to boatpeople, thousands of whom are languishing in the high seas, Myanmar's reluctance to attend Thailand's May 29 regional summit to solve the issue, is disconcerting.