What is needed is a thorough investigation to allay their concerns that their daughter was murdered. It is too early, without being aware of all the facts, to take a definitive position. We urge that the authorities take heed of the issues that Raudha's family has raised and after looking into those, disclose their findings.

Although the emergency department of the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital (SSMCH) was recently modernised with modern

We are outraged and disappointed at Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi's denial of the atrocities that amount to ethnic cleansing, committed by Myanmarese security forces on Rohyingya Muslims.

Bangladesh has moved up three notches in the Global Human Development Index 2015, ranking 139th out of 188 countries, according to the recently published Human Development Report (HDR) 2016 by UNDP.

The Prime Minster is embarking on a most important bilateral visit in recent times, since Bangladesh-India relations happen to be, for us...

We are happy that Bangladesh successfully hosted one of the largest gatherings of parliamentarians through the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)

Within the last two weeks, plainclothes men picked up six people under mysterious circumstances that point towards negligence and misuse of power by law enforcement agencies.

We condemn, in the strongest possible terms the chemical attack on April 4 in rebel-held north-western Syria has killed some 70 civilians (mostly children) and left many others sick.

We deplore in the strongest possible terms the ghastly attack on a subway train in St Petersburg that has claimed 14 innocent lives.

A letter issued by the cabinet division stating students' and young peoples' studies are being hampered by excess time spent on social media...

We are shocked to learn that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), the country's leading medical university, is being run without an emergency unit since its inception.

In a rather disturbing turn of events we have the news of two mayors from two very important city corporations – Rajshahi and Sylhet -- being unceremoniously suspended from their posts just as they were about to resume office.

It is a matter of pride for Bangladesh to host the largest gathering of parliamentarians from abroad, for the five-day Inter-Parliamentary Union conference. We warmly welcome the delegates and hope they will carry back good memories of our country.

The number of reports and editorials over the years we have published about jaywalking, especially on the Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue, is staggering.

In 2014, eight remote shoals located twenty kilometres east of Bauphal upazila town in Patuakhali were formalised into Chandranip union

How did Habibur Rahman Habib, a former Rab man, who was among the 35 accused in the sensational seven-murder case in Narayanganj, continue

Sharmin was 15 when she, like thousands of other girls her age in rural Bangladesh was married off by her parents. She was to marry a man who was old enough to be her father but she took a stand and refused.

The chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) organised a seminar titled “Concerted Efforts Against Corruption” last week and

In a report published on its website, the UN Human Rights Committee has expressed concerns about the “high rate of extra-judicial

TK. 150 crore will be spent by the government to install internet monitoring equipment that it says will help combat militancy, clamp