A non-governmental organisation (NGO) will take the responsibility of running a school with 76 students at Misripara Seema Buddhist temple in Kuakata under Kalapara upazila of the district from January next year.

The first cardinal of Bangladesh, Patrick D'Rozario, has termed Bangladesh as ‘culturally a nation of one’.

A fire that broke out at a gas lighter factory in Ashulia on November 22 that seriously injured 26 people, mostly women and children, begs some hard questions to be asked.

Some Bangladesh Chhatra League men's continuing heavy handedness, we believe, is a direct result of the impunity being enjoyed by the errant party cadres.

Rapid Action Battalion arrested another classmate of slain schoolboy Md Rasheduzzaman Leon from Kewatkhali area in the town on Tuesday night.

The court appearance and subsequent bail of two former Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) cadres accused of brandishing and using firearms in an incident in Dhaka on October 27 is indeed a shocker to all.

Yousuf Sardar is a young electrician from Chandpur district who spent six months and Tk 17,000 to build a tricycle that runs on solar power.

A clever country invests in education. There can be no surer road to a nation's long-term betterment. But in remote

Liakat Ali, 60, of Porra village in Manikganj Municipality has collected more than three thousand historical metal

A Class IX student of Basail upazila in the district has prevented her early marriage with the help of local

Enterprising farmer Shakhawat Hossain Liton, 40, from Shatbaria village in Jhenidah's Kaliganj upazila had a simple

It is with bewilderment and disappointment that we have learnt from this paper that the Saudi Arabian embassy in Dhaka is refusing to issue visas for male migrant workers because recruiting agencies are not sending enough female migrant workers.

We are shocked at the disappearance of Dr Muhammed Iqbal Mahmud, a medical officer of the Directorate General of Health Services, who was abducted 38 days ago from the heart of the capital by a gang of people riding a microbus.

About 16 visually impaired people of Lalmonirhat Sadar and Rajarhat upazilas have received white canes for their

The parks of Bogra town have turned into meeting places of students of educational institutions of the town during

A handbag of Leoni Margaretha Cuelenaere, ambassador of the Netherlands in Bangladesh, has been allegedly stolen in a programme on Dhaka University campus today.

Around 40 lakh people of the coastal belt near Sundarbans will be climate refugees if the much-talked-about coal-based power plant is implemented in Rampal, prof Anu Muhammad says.

The irregularities and corruption that allegedly vex the passport sector have reached a new level with about 50,000 expat Bangladeshis in Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Malaysia unable to get machine readable passports (MRP) although they paid the requisite fees more than a year ago.

Abdus Salam Khan, a freedom fighter, who not only fought to give this country freedom, but had also continued to fight for social justice and simply provide people with a ray of hope, was brutally murdered recently.

Sukhi Akhter, 10, who continued receiving death threat from the alleged killers of her father, took part in the Primary