Women's rights activists yesterday criticised the government for forming a draft action plan on child marriage without specifying the

The government has ordered the home ministry and other authorities concerned to intensify vigilance at the border, especially along the sea, to halt any sort of illegal and risky migration from Bangladesh.

Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin yesterday declared to pull down all illegal billboards in the city in presence of

While a Bangladeshi delegation is still working to verify the nationality of the 208 trafficking victims rescued by Myanmar on Thursday, the chief minister of Rakhine state has said the “Bangladeshi migrants” would be repatriated within days.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday vowed to work for the country's development in the non-communal spirit of National Poet Kazi

Myanmar has once again banked on its old trick to describe Rohingya Muslims as "Bengalis" to avoid responsibilities amid growing international pressure on it to rescue thousands of boatpeople trapped at sea.

The parliamentary standing committee on home affairs yesterday asked police to quit "their age-old habit of telling lies” to deny

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has decided to modernise the toilets at every filling station in its area so that they can be used as

Teachers' associations at Dhaka and Chittagong universities yesterday rejected the proposed pay scale for public servants, saying it

The contractual appointment of the press minister at Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi, Enamul Huq Chowdhury, has been

The contractual appointment of the press minister at Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi, Enamul Huq Chowdhury, has been

Bangladesh will honour former Indian prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for his contribution to the 1971 Liberation War which led to its independence.

The two new mayors of Dhaka city corporations yesterday said they urgently needed some 200 designated sites for effective waste collection to keep their priority pledge to make Dhaka a clean city.

Government fails to manage Malaysian company IRIS, which has put in jeopardy future of 30 lakh Bangladeshi expatriates in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Malaysia.

The World Bank is going to forge a new country partnership framework (CPF) with Bangladesh for the period of FY16-FY20 as part of

The government has to take immediate steps to conduct detailed engineering assessment of the existing buildings to minimise

To protect environmental pollution and encroachment of water bodies in Dhaka district, a taskforce will be formed within this month,

Bangladesh secured 99th position among 124 countries in the Human Capital Report 2015 of World Economic Forum (WEF), landing one

Bangladesh will import high quality potash fertiliser worth US$44 million from Canada.

Bangladesh and India are keen to introduce another cross-border bus service, on the Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala route, for improving road