The cooperative microcredit loan facilities have made dozens of families, affected by river bank erosion, at Purbo Kochua- 1 Asrayan

Nearly 3,700 migrants were rescued from boats near the coast of Libya on Saturday and early yesterday, the Italian coastguard said.

Former BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu died of “cardiac arrest” yesterday.

Although chlorine is widely used to make water clean and safe, an ICDDR,B study suggests that storing and handling water correctly is

War crimes researcher Shahriar Kabir yesterday said the March 28 city corporation polls, after the national election of 2008, were one of

The major problem in flourishing and promoting the country's tourism sector is the inadequate number of qualified tourist guides,

Out of the total 408 kilns in the district, 321 are still running with the old technology and thus causing pollution at a higher rate, which could have been easily curbed through the use of zigzag, hybrid Hoffman, vertical shaft, and tunnel technologies.

The need to develop alternative energy sources replacing the use of coal was raised at a conference in the capital yesterday.

After a nearly one-and-a half months break, banned battery-run rickshaws started plying across Chittagong city again.

Students of different English medium schools of Chittagong city on Friday demanded immediate arrest of perpetrators who were involved

A Bangladeshi suffered bullet injuries during a gunfight between two local factions in Libya's Benghazi on Friday night.

At the Joypurhat bar canteen, one set of table and crockery were kept separated for an advocate, not out of respect but because he belonged to the Harijan community. At Dhaka University, Purnima Das is looked down upon by her first-year classmates in accounting and information systems because she got admitted under the Dalit quota.

At least 15 traders were injured, eight with shotgun pellets, after police opened fire and charged truncheons on a group of traders

A search and rescue team of Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence could not leave for earthquake-hit Nepal due to a technical glitch

As he lay trapped for some 82 hours under the rubble of his Kathmandu hotel after Nepal's devastating earthquake, Rishi Khanal

International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday fixed May 6 to hear replies of 23 eminent persons over why they should not be punished for

A legal framework must be established so that people of the transgender (hijra) community can inherit family property and get government jobs under a quota, said speakers at a seminar yesterday.

After the Nepal earthquakes and aftershocks, students of a dormitory at Sher-e -Bangla Medical College, Barisal panicked as plasters from

Officials from Bangladesh embassy in Kathmandu are yet to know whether any Bangladeshi was killed or injured in the 7.9 magnitude earthquake occurred in Nepal five days ago.

A group of Bangladesh Ansar members, demanding their remuneration of yesterday’s city polls duty, blocked a major road in the capital this evening, leading to a clash with the police at Mirpur.