“In a country where several lakh people get out on the streets hearing a rumour that Sayedee [convicted war criminal Delawar Hossain

For more than two decades, Mohiuddin Chowdhury has almost single-handedly controlled the politics of Chittagong city. His sway was

The number of child labourers in Bangladesh has reduced to 2.48 million from 4.91 million in last 10 years, according to studies of Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID), a research-based organisation working to eliminate child labour.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is mounting an emergency operation to help survivors of the Nepal earthquake, said a

At least 65 women each of the river gypsy community yesterday got swing machines from a Kuwait based NGO Moushru al Zari in Savar

A report published by this newspaper yesterday reveals an alarming fact about Dhaka's parks. The capital city, ranked one of the worst liveable in the world, has only 54 parks when, ideally, it should have 92.

With almost all businesses in Dhaka closed yesterday for the city corporation elections and a public holiday, hundreds of biriyani restaurants, small to big, in Old Dhaka recorded brisk sales.

The Japanese government has taken an initiative to retrofit Bangladesh's vulnerable garment factory buildings in order to make those jolt-resistant and safe for workers.

WHAT started off as a peaceful, tension-free day of voting, turned out to be a disappointment for the city dwellers of Dhaka and Chittagong.

“Go home, voting has ended." These are the words that the Ansar members posted to guard a polling centre in Goran of Dhaka told voters around 1:30pm.

As the two major cities in the country go to the polls today to elect their mayors, there is a high degree of expectation tinged with a sense

We are outraged that a teacher was allegedly sexually assaulted on a campus by a student, that too, by an activist of a ruling party student

Officially, a city councillor's job is not lucrative as councillors have little authority to exercise. All they get to do is sign some

Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav spent Saturday night inside a tent after the powerful earthquake caused several cracks in his office-cum-residence.

Amidst the high hopes created by the exuberant mayoral campaigning comes a cold splash of reality. According to a report by The Daily

Not a week goes by when we are not bombarded with the news of yet more deaths in road accidents.

People across Bangladesh got panicked by multiple foreshocks and aftershocks of the 7.9 magnitude earthquake which jolted Nepal and some parts of India and China yesterday.

Once one starts walking in Dhaka city, soon it gets pretty difficult for the pedestrian to stay on the footpath for a variety of reasons, most prominent of them occupation by hawkers.

Fifteen-year-old Sagar Pattadar does not dare to dream of a better life even if he gets a chance at his right to education.

Today is the 4th death anniversary of Begum Fawzia Samad, wife of Bangladesh General Insurance Co Ltd founder late MA Samad.