IG Prisons Brig Gen Syed Iftekhar Uddin says maximum seven days will be given to death row war criminal Mir Quasem Ali to file a mercy petition.

US Secretary of state John Kerry's short visit, only the second by a US Secretary of State to Bangladesh in four years, we believe, has taken our bilateral relationship one step further.

We strongly condemn the attack by a section of Bangladesh Chatra League (BCL) on a peaceful procession demanding residential halls for the general students of Jagannath University (JnU).

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two suspected members of human organ trading gang in Kalai upazila of Joypurhat yesterday.

Lablu Shikder, the Magura father of 4-year-old boy Bayezid who is suffering from an extremely rare genetic disorder, is finding it

Planting trees only for wood, ignoring fruit and medicinal ones, is a great threat to the ecological system as the number of animals and

Kamalapur Railway Station is witnessing long queues as large number of holidaymakers gathered there this afternoon to buy advance tickets for September 8, three days before Eid-ul-Azha.

Condemned war criminal Mir Quasem Ali became “mildly nervous” after hearing the apex court’s order that scrapped his petition seeking review against death. He is physically well, a jailor says.

We are deeply disturbed by the death of Suraiya Akter Risha who was stabbed to death by a stalker at the entrance of her school. It is

Influential and wilful defaulters were continually taking advantage of the loan rescheduling policy by pressurising banks to reschedule their troublesome loans on flimsy grounds. This impedes on banks' ability to recover loans, increasing their likelihood of becoming irrecoverable long-term according to the findings of the Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management study.

The namaj-e-janaza of Ekushey Padak winner Bangla poet Shahid Qadri is held in New York. An Emirate flight carrying his body will land Dhaka around 11:00pm (NY time) today.

Kamalapur Railway Station is witnessing long queues of holidaymakers as Bangladesh Railway began its sale of advance train tickets to ensure a hassle-free journey ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

It is after long four years that a US Secretary of State is visiting Bangladesh. He is coming at a time when the country is going through a testing period. And we acknowledge the US' words of support and offer of help at this trying time of ours.

A riparian district once famed for its on-water and riverside markets, where rivers provided the principle means of cargo transport,

Eminent Bangla poet Shahid Qadri has passed away at a hospital in New York, United States, at the age of 74. He was suffering from old age complications for the last six months.

The High Court rejects a writ petition seeking its directive upon the government to collect Tk 1 crore in compensation from the officials concerned who were responsible for the death of the Indian elephant.

It is heartening to hear that England's cricket team will proceed with their much anticipated tour of Bangladesh, as planned. We would like to thank the England and Wales Cricket Board for refusing to be intimidated and in making this correct decision, keeping faith in the ability of the Bangladeshi authorities to ensure that all the necessary security measures will, indeed, be taken.

A joint forces raid at a house in Narayanganj Sadar upazila has taken out three militants, including Tamim Chowdhury, the mastermind behind the Holey Artisan Bakery killings. We compliment the law enforcing agencies for the quick and robust operation in the form of “Operation Hit Strong 27”.

It is not every day we come across a local administration official at Upazila level introducing a service that is so out of the box, it makes

A-CARDS”, as they are being called is a project financed by the USAID Agriculture Extension Support Activity and facilitated by non-government organisations Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) and CARE Bangladesh, and Bank Asia, a leading commercial bank.