A retired civilian staff of the army was arrested on Thursday after a fifteen-year-old girl filed a case alleging he had raped her on several

Bangladesh's leather industry is one of the very few industries if not the only one for which Bangladesh does not have to import the main raw materials. Cheap labour, top quality raw materials that is hides of Bangladeshi cattle and global demand for luxury leather products has made it one of the most productive industries and foreign currency earners of Bangladesh. In 2014, Bangladesh's leather industry set a record for increasing exports up to 32.12 percent; for the first time it reached the US$1 billion mark for annual export.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday urged people to instill holy Ashura's spirit to restore democracy in Bangladesh and termed

Iqbal Bahar Khan, vice-chairman of Baniachang Upazila Parishad in Habiganj district and Jamaat leader, was suspended on Wednesday as

At least one person was killed and about 87 others were injured in homemade bomb explosions in front of Hossaini Dalan in old Dhaka early hours today.

Facebook Friends' Society, a Facebook group comprises of the local people of Bogra, formed a human chain at Satmatha in Bogra

Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) yesterday formed a three-member body headed by an assistant director to investigate

Police yesterday found a covered van, which had gone missing on the way to Dhaka from Chittagong early Thursday

Valuable machinery and hardboard stocks worth Tk 2 crore have been lying idle at state-owned Khulna Hard Board

A seven-member Bangladeshi mountaineering team is to leave for Nepal on October 27 aiming to climb Mt Kyajo Ri in 20 days and afterwards their leader, MA Mohit, who conquered Mount Everest twice, will seek to scale Mt Ama Dablam in 15 days.

A pro-Jamaat lawyer was picked up by law enforcers from a bus on the way to his village home in Sirajganj from Dhaka on October 22,

Opposing the move to put Shariatpur district under Faridpur division, the people of Shariatpur demand the government

The workers of a Rana Plaza factory, who survived the nine-storey building collapse in 2013, yesterday demanded

Special Envoy to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina HM Ershad yesterday suggested the ruling Awami League (AL) to hold the upcoming local

Light-trap and parching, environmentally sound methods for controlling harmful insects, especially Brown Plant Hopper, are helping

The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), will be observed in the country tomorrow with due religious fervour and solemnity.

Fire safety measures are ignored in most building designs in Bangladesh posing a high risk to human lives, a leading architect told a seminar in the capital yesterday.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said fine for illegal parking and over speeding will be raised.

Fifty-four South Asians, including 35 Bangladeshis, seeking asylum in the US ended their six-day hunger strike at a detention centre in El Paso, Texas on October 20 following two days' negotiations between Dhaka and Washington, said diplomatic sources.

Thirty-three out of 53 Bangladesh missions failed to achieve respective export targets set for the first quarter (July-September) of the current fiscal year (2015-16), according to the latest statistics provided by the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB).