Nazmul Hasan, former executive director of Bangladesh Bank, died of cardiac arrest in the capital's Apollo Hospital

Water transport workers are likely to go on an indefinite countrywide strike Tuesday midnight to press home their 15-

MA Aziz, acting president of Dhaka city unit of Awami League, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday. He was 67.

People of all faiths should jointly launch an idealistic battle against terrorists, who are killing innocents in the name

Freedom fighter Saleh Ahmed, a lawyer, died on Friday while undergoing treatment for cardiac arrest at Dhaka

Today is the 47th Mass Upsurge Day that signifies the de facto fall of the 10-year military regime of General Ayub

Bangladesh's women's rights activists have been waging movements for decades seeking a women-friendly law

Hundreds of indigenous and Bangalee farmers of Gaibandha yesterday staged a demonstration in the capital

Hosne Ara Islam, wife of eminent architect Muzharul Islam, died at Apollo Hospital in the capital early yesterday, aged 87, says a press

Movement of all trains on Jamalpur-Mymensingh route were stopped for four hours as agitated locals put logs on

Leaders of Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) yesterday demanded that an effective law be enacted to control

The chehlum of Dr Shakina Haque Begum Dalim, former chief researcher at Dartmouth Medical College in the USA, will be held today after Juma prayers at

Today is the 3rd death anniversary of Mukitur Rahman Bhuiyan, former managing director of Maxwell International, says a press release. His family members

Five former Chinese ambassadors to Bangladesh will arrive in Dhaka on Sunday on a five-day visit.

The government yesterday appointed Rear Admiral Mohammad Nizamuddin Ahmed as the navy chief.

At least four people, including a policeman, were injured yesterday as protesters and police threw brick chips and chased each other and the latter fired teargas canisters during an eviction drive demolishing an illegal market and some slum shanties in the capital's Kalyanpur.

A security guard was found dead with hands and legs tied to a chair at a building at Chitroshil of Savar's Ashulia early

"If I ever meet my birth mother, I will thank her for not killing me through abortion. She just abandoned me with a hope that I will remain happy. She must be happy as I am now," this was the quote of a war baby who is living in Canada while expressing his reaction about her birthmother to the author of a book written on them.

A doa mahfil for late Dr Babar Kabir will be held at his residence in the capital tomorrow after Asr prayers.

Syed Ashraf Ali, former director general, Islamic Foundation Bangladesh and a renowned Islamic scholar, died at Eden