The inception meeting of the 18-month Brac-Chevron pilot partnership project "Alternative Livelihood" for the socio-economic development of the people around the Chevron gas fields was held in Sylhet Zila Parishad Conference Hall yesterday.

A boy died after being found in Gagla village under Mymensingh's Gouripur upazila last night bearing injuries police believe were inflicted with sharp weapons.

Shirin Akter, a professor of the Bangla department, has been appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor of Chittagong University yesterday.

The US Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Alan Bersin will lead an interagency

The High Court yesterday stayed the process for holding election to the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira) for a month.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmud yesterday, without elaborating, claimed that problems arose due to non-enforcement of the anti-graft body's powers, which were adequate.

A fire that broke out in the Sundarbans under Chandpai Range of Bagerhat on Sunday afternoon damaged foliage on 1.66 acres of the mangrove forest , said Belayet Hossain, assistant forest conservator of the range yesterday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry will present the 2016 Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award to a group of extraordinary women from around the world today at the US Department of State, a US State Department release said yesterday.

Four years after taking the initiative, the government yesterday approved in principle the draft of "The Accreditation Council Law, 2016" with a view to ensuring standards of higher education in the country.

Bangladesh Students' Union threatens to march to the Prime Minister's Office if the authorities fail to catch the killers of Comilla college student Tonu.

Islam retains the status of state religion with the High Court rejecting a writ petition challenging the legality of a constitutional provision in this regard.

Police arrest a young man along with five gold bars at Kamalapur railway station in the capital this morning.

A Taliban splinter group says it carried out a suicide attack on a park in the Pakistani city of Lahore, which killed more than 70 people, including children. The Jamaat-ul-Ahrar group said the attack had deliberately targeted Christians celebrating Easter Day.

The Supreme Court yesterday extended its stay order on the bail of lawyer Shakila Farjana, accused of financing terrorism, for next three months.

The home ministry, through a circular yesterday, imposed stringent measures for issuing official passports against the backdrop of

BNP will petition against a High Court ban on publishing its senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman's comments in the media, the party

A man was killed in a fire in Mekhol of Hathazari upazila in Chittagong early yesterday.

Taking a swipe at her arch rival Khaleda Zia, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the BNP chief smiles only when she can kill people.

A woman was killed and her husband injured when their motorcycle collided head-on with a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Muchibari area

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities concerned to take adequate safety measures at the construction site of the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover within 15 days to avoid accidents.