It’s built quite strategically -- on a hilltop -- so that someone approaching could be identified clearly from the structure’s two towers.

BNP announces to stage demonstration across the country tomorrow demanding immediate release of party’s imprisoned Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Two buses including a BRTC bus catch fire in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar and Kurmitola areas.

Two factions of Awami League lock into a scuffle at Laldighi ground just before the council of the party’s Chattogram district north unit begins there.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has praised Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's leadership in addressing the issue of climate change in the international arena.

The fire that broke out at Petrobangla Bhaban in Dhaka's Karwan Bazar area has been doused after 45 minutes.

The National Judicial Conference-2019 will be held today with an aim to discuss all relevant issues regarding the judiciary, including backlog of cases, digitisation, effective court administration and case management.

Admission tests for Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University (MBSTU), Tangail, started yesterday with some 80 students set to compete for each seat.

Family members of a missing student of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology have alleged that he was picked up by the members of Detective Branch (DB) from Naya Bazar area of Chattogram city on Tuesday.

Police Nari Kalyan Samity (Punak), an association for welfare of the female members of police families, is going to sell onions at Tk 45 per kg for the next seven days starting today -- with an aim to provide port city dwellers some respite from exorbitant prices of onion.

Winter is widely held as the season for vegetables. As supply of vegetables floods kitchen markets, prices come down drastically. But this year, the economics is yet to work out in Chattogram.

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Terming the behaviour of pro-BNP lawyers at a courtroom of the Appellate Division an unpardonable offence, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said they turned the courtroom into a battlefield.

Dhaka -- the most densely populated city in the world -- is still growing in an unplanned way, said State Minister for Disaster Management and Relief Dr Md Enamur Rahman at an event in Dhaka yesterday.

Nagorik Oikya Convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna yesterday firmly criticised the government for its failure to check prices of essential commodities and ensure security of women migrants working in the Middle East.

At the 67th World Health Assembly in 2014, member states of World Health Organization (WHO) agreed to strengthen palliative care as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life course. However, this patient-focused approach is still under-addressed.

“Just a decade ago, this place was full of open lush paddy fields, but now, all that can be seen are piles of stones strewn across the land.”

In 1519 the Spaniard Hernan Cortes landed in Mexico. His band of adventurers defeated the Aztec king Montezuma, thus starting 300 years of Spanish rule. Before that, for hundreds of years, several native civilizations rose and fell in Mexico, and the nation proudly boasts that heritage wherever one looks.

Indifferent attitude towards Old Dhaka’s heritage buildings is continually turning our fascinating past rather obscure. So much so, even if you walk past an old structure soaked in history, you may not even notice it at all, let alone appreciate it.

Rapid Action Battalion claims to have arrested three human traffickers in a drive at Khilgaon in Dhaka as they were planning to send some Rohingyas abroad illegally.