Fishermen are netting plenty of hilsa fish this year compared to last year, and the price is also good.

Many of the trapped workers were begging for help after a fire engulfed the plastic packaging factory in Tongi this morning, a neighbour says.

The success that the girls of the Bangladesh under-16 women's football team have earned through their performance in the AFC Women's U-16 Championship was marred by the reception that awaited them back home.

Violation of procurement rules relating to the purchase of medical equipment for Chittagong General Hospital to the tune of Tk7.18 crore has been detected by a probe committee.

A six-day long Eid vacation for the government employees starts.

One of the most effective ways to curb forced labour in the garment industry is to target cotton spinning mills, where workers can provide valuable information about the source of material in the fashion supply chain, an anti-slavery charity says.

Long tailbacks on Dhaka-Tangail and Dhaka-Chittagong highways inflicted immeasurable sufferings on home-bound passengers

The photo of a SUV apparently carrying a VIP holding a rank high enough to be entitled to fly the national flag on his or her

Law Minister Anisul Huq alleges that the children of war criminals are hatching conspiracies and urged all to stay alert against them.

Despite remarkable strides in overcoming poverty, the country still faces major challenges in elevating nutrition levels among children.

Water is the lifeline for any city. Dhaka is no exception. The land needed to retain water in ponds in three principal areas of the city, i.e.

Literacy is a foundation to build a more sustainable future for all, but the 40 families of a remote Mro para in Ruma upazila here, never got a chance to be literate.

With the Dhalai and Laghata rivers raging with floodwaters in recent days around 3,000 families in ten villages of Kamalganj municipality in Moulvibazar district live in constant fear that their houses will be washed away if damaged embankments collapse.

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The good news is that Bangladesh Biman has managed to send all the intending Bangladeshi pilgrims to Saudi Arabia in time for hajj but some 300 passengers...

We commend the government for its decision to raise the monthly allowance by two to threefold of the decorated and wounded freedom fighters.

When skies are grey during the monsoon months, the white faces of water lilies brighten the liquid landscape of Hakaluki Haor. But the

We take strong exception to the comments made by Turkey and Pakistan following the execution of Mir Quasem Ali for crimes against humanity.

If it hadn't been for a news report it would have been hard to believe that almost half of all private universities do not have any VC and are being run with mostly acting VCs.

Decision on the bodies of 19 militants killed in Gulshan attack and Kalyanpur, Narayanganj and Mirpur raids will be finalised after receiving reports of various tests carried out on them.