Nearly 900 Rohingyas and Bangladeshi migrants have been rescued from smugglers' boats stranded at sea, but their fates remain

A move is underway to build some 1,320 low-cost flats for low- and middle-income groups in the capital under public-private partnership (PPP).

A month-long group art exhibition titled “Soft Reflections” of 30 contemporary artists began on the new Gallery Cosmos premises in the

It is the last day of the weekend. But city dwellers have been experiencing bumper-to-bumper traffic on Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue in Dhaka since morning just like the week days.

The culture of impunity coupled with state patronisation of perpetrators is encouraging criminal activities like killing and sexual harassment in Bangladesh, discussants told a function yesterday.

AS per a report published by ESCAP titled 'Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2015', Bangladesh is ahead of both India and Pakistan in terms of inclusive growth.

ACCORDING to women's rights organisation, Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, 44 women have reportedly been victims of gender-based violence at the hands of law enforcers.

The holy Shab-e-Meraj will be observed today across the country with due respect and religious fervour.

STANDARD & Poor (S&P), the global rating agency has reaffirmed the 'BB-' long-term sovereign rating for the country.

THE horrific murder of a woman and her uncle-in-law inside her Pallabi apartment exemplifies how vulnerable ordinary citizens have become even in their own home.

BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, who had remained missing for about two months, was blindfolded when he was dropped off by a car in Golf Link area of Shillong on Monday, according to two of his relatives. He was taken to Shillong, the capital of Indian state of Meghalaya, by an SUV after nearly an overnight's drive. But he could not say from where the car started and who were with him.

WE share the general relief at the news that BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, who has been missing for the last two months, is alive.

IT is heartening to note that Facebook has launched its free online browsing platform internet.org in Bangladesh in partnership with a local mobile company.

The UN,the Us and France express concern over brutal murder of blogger Ananta Bijoy Das in in Sylhet and call for thorough investigations to bring the perpetrators to justice.

ANOTHER gruesome assassination of blogger and an organiser of local Gonojagoron Mancha, Ananta Bijoy Das in Sylhet illustrates that the systematic killing of free thinkers is still on the extremist agenda.

AUTHORITIES appear blissfully unconcerned about the fact that the fire extinguishing equipment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) had expired over a year ago.

Around two months after going missing from Dhaka city, BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed has been found in Shillong, the capital of north-eastern Indian state of Meghalaya.

Twenty-day Jaipur Foot Artificial Fitment Camp starts today at the capital's National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedic

His outlook on life was very simple, yet broad: evaluating issues, arising from his experiences of the society, against the touchstones of intellect and rationality.

His outlook on life was very simple, yet broad: evaluating issues, arising from his experiences of the society, against the touchstones of intellect and rationality.