The sharp rise in criminal activities such as killings, including extrajudicial ones and those of children; rapes, abductions and enforced

A four-storey residential building tilted towards an adjacent five-storey building in Narayanganj's Fatullah area yesterday.

Speakers yesterday urged the government to implement the Domestic Workers Protection and Welfare Policy-2015, which had been

AK Azad and Ranjan Karmaker, newly elected president and general secretary respectively of the 40-member executive committee of

The latest aid figures for education in Bangladesh estimated by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, Unesco show that there

Forest Department through community participation is carrying afforestation and reforestation activities in nine hilly and coastal

An Indonesian minister has suggested an unusual reason for the scourge of corruption in the graft-ridden country -- men are just trying

Food Minister Quamrul Islam on Monday said stern action will be taken against those to be found involved in irregularities in rice and

Taleya Rehman, wife of detained veteran journalist Shafik Rehman, yesterday claimed that her husband was not involved in any plot to abduct or murder Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy.

A mobile court of the Barisal district administration yesterday fined three diagnostic centres Tk 70,000 for various irregularities in the city.

The nation is alarmed over the quality of education, said Md Abdur Razzak, chairman of parliamentary standing committee on finance ministry, at a discussion on education budget in the capital yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday asked BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to appear before it on May 5 to submit her statements against the

A newly elected Union Parishad member was killed when a truck hit him while he was standing beside the road in Dhulauri area of

Turning down Senior Presidium Member Raushan Ershad's demand for postponing Jatiya Party's national council, Chairman HM Ershad

Save the Children, a leading child rights promoting organisation, is set to launch a campaign today with the fervent call for ensuring

Police early yesterday rescued a businessman, kidnapped from Chittagong College Road on April 20, from Maheshkhali jungle of Cox's Bazar.

Posing as courier service staff, miscreants enter the house of an editor of the country’s first LGBT magazine and stab him dead along with his friend at his flat in Dhaka’s Kalabagan area. Cops suspect involvement of militant groups in the killing.

Customs Intelligence today seizes a huge quantity of medicines and 105 grams of gold at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Three assailants on a motorcycle have gunned down a prison guard of Kashimpur jail in Gazipur in broad daylight and fled away, police say.

Students’ blockade protesting the murder of Tonu at Shahbagh intersection, one of the major intersections in Dhaka, created acute traffic congestion in the capital.