A Dhaka court yesterday sent to jail Shawkat Mahmud, an adviser of the BNP chairperson and president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal

Bangladesh Hindu-Bouddha-Christian Oikya Parishad yesterday demanded protection of religious minorities against repression and torture.

Angered over the tragic death of a man under a tiger statue at Karwan Bazar of Dhaka yesterday, people demanded justice.

A 14-year-old girl got on the wrong bus on her way to Dinajpur from Dhaka. Upon realising her mistake, she stepped out of the bus, and was looking for another way home, when a police van stopped in front of her.

Rail communications on Parbotipur-Chilahati route in Nilphamari remained snapped for six hours as the locomotive of a Rajshahi-bound

Author Taslima Nasreen's Indian visa was extended yesterday for another year, effective from July 23, following an intervention of Home

In addition to Monira Begum, more than 11,500 rural people most of them women in Rajshahi region are now passing their busiest

Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Federation called off its indefinite strike as transport worker leader Nurul Islam was rescued from

Rapid Action Battalion seized 7,64,100 painkillers from a pharmaceutical factory in Barisal city early yesterday.

Incessant rains and the water rolling down hills have inundated about five hundred shoals and low-lying areas of all nine upazilas of

Senior journalist Probir Sikdar is still apprehensive of moving freely.

Students of eight private universities of Chittagong yesterday protested the government's decision to impose 7.5 percent VAT on their

At least 15 schoolgirls of Durgapasa High School in Chanpasa village of Barisal were admitted to Sher-E-Bangla Medical College Hospital

Chittagong regional committee of Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Shramik Federation enforced an indefinite strike in the five districts of

Catherine Masud, widow of renowned filmmaker Tareque Masud, yesterday urged the chief justice to take measures to expedite trial

The tourism industry has appeared more as a threat to indigenous peoples' cultural integrity and to their right to the land and forest

The Election Commission urges the government to withdraw its deputy director who beat up two journalists at his office.

If you observe their activities, you would hardly believe that they are taking part in a court hearing.

Some top cops in Faridpur threatened journalist Probir Sikdar, who lost a leg in an attack in 2001, that they would make sure that he lose the other leg, he told a court yesterday.

A Bangladesh Chhatra League leader was killed in a “gunfight” between his associates and Rab members in the capital's Hazaribagh area early yesterday, around 12 hours after he and his friends allegedly beat a teenage boy to death.