It is quite by accident that a group of youths came across information that bamboo sticks were being used in the construction of a

Reports of Bangladeshi women falling victim to sexual and other kinds of abuses in the Middle East are resurfacing in the media despite human rights activists and governments calling for labour reforms in some countries in the region. According to a leading Bangla daily,

Hilsa, our national fish, has become an inseparable part of Pahela Baishakh (Bangla New Year) celebrations, but experts say the practice has no roots in a thousand years of Bengali tradition.

It has been more than forty-eight hours since Nazim Samad was brutally killed by unknown assailants on the streets of old Dhaka; the

We are horrified by the findings of a research titled “Hidden Slavery Child Domestic Workers,” which state that nearly 80 percent of child

Slain secular activist Nazim Uddin Samad has been buried at his family graveyard at Baraut village in Bianibazar upazila of Sylhet.

A madrasa girl was saved from child marriage in Nawabganj upazila of the district on Wednesday. Marriage of tenth grader Monira Akhter

A large number of buses, trucks and other vehicles regularly use a risky bridge across the Mathabhanga River on Damurhuda-Dewly road

Cheating allegations in public exams have always dogged students in this country but the scene at Adakhola High School of Jhalakathi during the...

A draft education law, conforming to the recommendation of the National Education Policy -2010, has been put up for public comments.

Nilphamari's potters are passing busy days preparing for the upcoming Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bangla year. They are making fancy earthen items for the accompanying traditional fair in towns and villages in all the six upazilas of the district, and indeed across the country.

According to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics' (BBS) provisional data, the economy is projected to grow at a rate exceeding 7 percent in the current fiscal.

We are compelled to ask, after reading the news reports, whether the death of four people and injuries to at least 30 (including police) in Banshkhali upazila (Chittagong) could have been avoided?

The special team for counter terrorism and transnational crime must be complimented for yet another success in busting a terrorist den, this time in Bogra.

The Cabinet has set a six-month deadline to remove all unapproved commercial entities from residential areas.

A schoolgirl was saved from child marriage at Shabgram village in Sadar upazila of the district on Monday. Tenth grader Khadija Ahkter,

The UK government's decision to impose a ban on direct cargo flight from Dhaka has badly hit Bangladesh's exports to UK, particularly

The news that Bangladesh might be classified 'risky' by the Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) is worrying. It is an issue that

The recent visit of a joint Reactive Monitoring Mission involving the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) raises more questions than answers.

We welcome the very insightful comments of the Hon'ble Chief Justice made at a book launching ceremony on Saturday.