Transparency International report, according to which a meagre 37 percent of the accused are convicted in graft cases, is disappointing.

With the public hearing regarding another round of gas price increase underway, businesses have already expressed their concerns about its possible impacts.

Refusing to bow down to the forces of nature, twenty two boats turned into schools, libraries and computer labs are moving across the Chalan Beel region, a large wetland in Bangladesh, illuminating the lives of many impoverished children with the light of education.

Investigation into the Sholakia attack has made little progress. Meanwhile, the only attacker caught alive from the scene was killed reportedly, in a gunfight between law enforcers and militants taking the tally of terror-suspects killed in such gunfights with law enforcers in the past 2 months to 19.

Payment to a company hired for installing solar systems in 243 different establishments of Rangpur was allegedly made before completion of the work in the 2015-16 FY.

Tarunno Society, an organisation for youths, launches a mass signature campaign on the premises of Habiganj Town Hall on Saturday,

It is unfathomable how on Friday, the Bangladesh Chemists and Druggists Samity blocked the entire street connecting Bailey Road with

We have been warning about the onset of post-flood diseases for some time now. The local administration has been responding but it appears not so fast in many areas where the receding waters have brought water-borne diseases like diarrhoea and skin-related infections.

Denied wages, ration and medical care, about 2400 people including workers and their family members are trapped in a modern version of enslavement at Boikunthapur Tea Estate in Habiganj.

The private universities have made significant contributions to higher education in Bangladesh. Regrettably, there exists lot of misconception about these.

Speech and hearing impaired student Sumaiya Rahman Riya is ambitious. Asked in writing what she'd like to do for a career, she picks up pen to write: “While many students like me pursue fine arts at a higher level I want to be a banker.” She also wants to learn computers, to be adept at information technology, adds her father.

For three villages, Sahebtila, Shafinagar and Rajnagar, in Moulvibazar's Rajnagar upazila, there's a simple equation: rain equals risk. On any rainy day villagers wait nervously inside their hillside homes, aware that at any moment a landslide may be unleashed.

The city's various utility companies and agencies have for decades been working disjointedly in the capital city which has led to

The Prime Minister's call made to the nation while inaugurating the Hajj programme to oppose the killing of innocents in the

Hummam Quader Chowdhury, son of executed war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdury, is reportedly detained by detectives from a court premise in Dhaka.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has started Hajj operation with its first flight departing Dhaka for Saudi Arabia.

To lodge a complaint about a dilapidated road or a broken lamp post or any other city service is a hectic affairs as it requires one to go through the labyrinth of the manual complaint system.

It seems that there is a spurt of eviction drives in Dhaka city by Rajdhani Unnayan Katripakkha (Rajuk) officials following the Gulshan killings.

Local people formed a human chain in Gouripur of the district on Sunday, demanding immediate steps to repair the five-kilometre Kumri-Mohishati road in the upazila.

A news report in this paper has caught our attention. An open letter signed by 38 Bangladeshi children stuck in a safe-home in West Bengal asking the prime minister for safe conduct home is both touching and alarming at the same time.