Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday came down heavily on the US for imposing sanctions on Rab and some of its officials saying that this has been an abominable move.

Bangladesh’s air quality has been the worst in the world for two years in a row -- a worrying development that will only become more acute if strict measures are not taken now such as specific legislation to check the menace.

Ukraine said yesterday it was pausing evacuations of civilians from war-scarred regions of the country because intelligence reports suggested invading Russian troops were planning attacks on humanitarian routes.

Bangladeshi journalist Zahidur Rahman and expatriate engineer Saiful Islam Tipu, who went missing in Tripoli on March 23, are now in the “safe custody” of the Libyan authorities.

Oryx Bio-Tech Limited was struggling for quite some time to find a suitable plot near Dhaka for building a large manufacturing plant -- the first-ever plasma fractionation plant in Bangladesh.

A doctor bled to death after being stabbed on his thigh by unidentified criminals in the capital’s Shewrapara early yesterday.

After the murderers left three-year-old Maimuna gagged and bound, sitting next to her mother’s dead body, it was the toddler’s quick wit that saved her infant brother.

Detectives yesterday said they arrested the man who shot Awami League leader Jahidul Islam Tipu and a college student in the capital’s Shajahanpur on Thursday.

A Bangladeshi journalist, who went to Libya on March 21, has been missing for the last five days.

A woman was hacked to death in her home in the capital’s Sabujbagh yesterday.

Amid lax monitoring by the authorities, many deep tube-well operators have been depriving small farmers in Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj and Naogaon of their fair share of water for irrigation.

Drugs that used to successfully fight diseases are gradually becoming ineffective due to decades of malpractice: intake of over-prescribed or self-prescribed medicines.  

Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ decision to operate direct flights between Dhaka and Toronto may not be commercially viable, feared multiple aviation experts.

Three children died as part of a hill collapsed on them in a rubber plantation at Bhatara union of Moulvibazar’s Kalaura upazila yesterday afternoon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday firmly said that no one would be able to play with the fate of the people of Bangladesh from now onwards.

No uprising is imaginable without slogans -- be it in our country or elsewhere in the world.  

Political feuds within the party could be a reason behind the murder of Jahidul Islam Tipu, former general secretary of Motijheel Awami League, said party activists and family members.

Samia Afran Prity was supposed to start a job next month. Her HSC examination is only a few months away, but she chose to work at a company in the capital to support her parents.

The situation in and around the Ramna Kali Mandir and Ma Anandamoyee Ashram near the Dhaka University campus was frightfully unnerving.

An eerie calm settled over Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University in the evening of March 25, 1971. The uneasiness soon turned into foreboding as the night progressed.