The Department of Environment (DoE) seized a tonne of banned polythene bags from a polythene factory in Purba Bakalia area of Chittagong city yesterday.

Nine teachers jointly submitted a letter resigning from administrative posts at AFM Kamal Uddin Hall of Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday just hours after some resident students handed over a memorandum demanding that the provost quit.

Three labourers were killed by lightning at Maghdail in Maheshkhali upazila of the district yesterday. Of the deceased, two were identified

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday afternoon arrested a person with 10,000 Yaba pills, worth Tk 40 lakh from the parking lot of a restuarent

At least four people are killed and 12 injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Shibganj upazila of Bogra.

A three-wheeler driver was killed when he fell on the Satkhira-Khulna highway after a bus hit his vehicle in Ahsan Nagar area of Satkhira yesterday.

Four houses were gutted in a fire at Mehedi Mahal village in Rajnagar upazila of the district on Friday night. Mofiz Uddin, an officer at

Economist Prof Dr Abul Barkat in a seminar yesterday said communalism and fundamental militancy must be

A cargo vessel carrying coal capsizes at Shela river in Chandpai range of the Sundarbans in Bagerhat.

Crises have pervaded the country, badly affecting education, health, and cultural sectors, administration, and even people's thought

The other day I visited Hail Haor in Moulvi Bazar. Haors are a geological feature of northern Bangladesh. These shallow, saucer-shaped

Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali on Thursday urged the Saarc member states to focus on more realistic, result-

A brickfield worker was killed and two others were injured as a portion of a brick kiln abruptly caved in early yesterday in Nawabganj

A man was burnt to death as a fire broke out at a poultry farm at Makarampotti village in Bhanga upazila of the district early yesterday.

Probin Kalyan Sangstha, a local NGO, yesterday organised a free eye camp in the capital's T&T Women University College to mark the birth

At least five activists of Jubo League, pro-youth front of the ruling Awami League, are killed and several others injured when a bus rammed a three-wheeler at Mujibnagar upazila in Meherpur.

A cleaner dies after inhaling toxic gas while cleaning a sewerage line in Hazaribagh area of Dhaka.

Would you believe that the cost of living in Dhaka is as high as that in Canadian city of Montreal—although the living amenities and conditions in these two cities are world apart?

An iron rod fell off from Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover in Dhaka’s Eskaton area killing a construction worker.

A sand-laden cargo vessel capsized following collision with a passenger launch in the Meghna River in Hizla upazila of the district