An accused allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in police custody yesterday, a day after he was arrested and taken to

The adoption of certain restrictive legislative and administrative measures has led to a shrinking space for religious or political dissent and frank public discourse, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief Heiner Bielefeldt has said.

The guardians of students of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College yesterday formed a human chain demanding scrapping of primary terminal examinations and creative question method in the tests

Constable Ashraful Islam, a member of Bangladesh Police who had been working in the United Nation Peace Keeping Mission in Congo, died of a cardiac arrest on Tuesday at a hospital of Uganda. He was 37.

Locals caught two youths with sharp weapons while they were allegedly trying to rob a drugstore in the capital's

Manir Ahmed, director of Popular Advertising Ltd, died on Wednesday at his residence in Bashikpur village of Feni. He was 51.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed former Ekushey TV chairman Abdus Salam on a three-day remand in a case filed on March 2 this year over misappropriating

Police yesterday submitted a charge sheet against six accused in a case filed over the killing of schoolboy M Abdullah in Keraniganj.

A man was killed and two others were injured as two battery-run auto-rickshaws collided head-on in Patuakhali

The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) of Chittagong arrested four people with 1kg of opium in Chawkbazar area

The High Court yesterday cancelled bail of a murder accused from Joypurhat for providing forged documents and

Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury yesterday said Bangladesh has uplifted itself to a lower-middle income country thanks to the different actions and programmes taken by the present government.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday urged the government to appoint a new chairman and a

Women account for 70 percent of the world's hungry, and are disproportionately affected by malnutrition, yet they are responsible for more than half of the global food production, said the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver.

Skill based education that equips girls to earn a livelihood in future can encourage parents not to marry off their daughters early, rather allow them to continue their study, said speakers yesterday.

Sufferings of dwellers have doubled in the last three months due to a delay in completing a project to develop Chittagong city's KB Aman Ali Road.

An acute water crisis has long been bashing the lives of Barisal city residents with the authorities concerned failing to maintain water supply to its stakeholders. The crisis has been compounded by a lack of power supply to the newly constructed two surface water treatment plants (SWTPs), six months after their construction.

A Dhaka court today placed Mahfuza Malek Jasmine on a fresh five-day remand in connection with murder of her two children at Dhaka’s Banasree area.

Speakers yesterday called for recognising women who work in agricultural sector as farmers and ensuring them

A world with equal rights, participation, sharing and dignity for both men and women can only be possible if family,