Mahabubur Rahman Ratan and Mizanur Rahman Mizan have been made president and secretary respectively of Swajan, says a press release.

Omar Ali, a poet, died due to old-age complications in his residence in Koorpur village of Pabna Sadar yesterday

Though the calendar says it's time for winter, people are yet to find respite from the post-summer heat and humidity.

It was at a duck shooting trip in Larkana, the hometown of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who lost in the 1970 election to Bangabandhu, that the seed of the genocide in Bangladesh was sowed. Bhutto and President of Pakistan Yahya Khan met there to discuss how not to hand over power to Mujib. The Larkana Conspiracy, as it is termed, was basically the root of the incidents that followed later including the nine-month genocide and destruction and the bloody War of Independence.

The High Court yesterday declared illegal the construction of a secondary transfer station (STS), a structure for waste management, at Pantha Kunja Park in the capital's Karwan Bazar.

Rafida Ahmed Bonya, the widow of slain writer-blogger Avijit Roy, has urged the international community to come forward to help save the voices of Bangladeshi freethinkers and maintain a healthy secular society.

The Pakistanis had a secret plan -- to fake a political dialogue with Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman while its military prepared to mow down the Bangalis, to terrorise them, to exterminate the Hindus who they viewed as Indian agents, to let loose a genocide campaign and teach the "treacherous" Bangalis a lesson.

We would like to congratulate the Bengal Foundation, its chair, executive director and its team, for a magnificent job accomplished.

It is discouraging to note that after almost 19 months since the gruesome murder of seven individuals in Narayanganj, there are still flaws in the...

Naval commandos and associates, who participated in Operation Jackpot conducted in Chittagong to attack and sink ships at the Chittagong Port on August 15 during the Liberation War, were honoured yesterday in the port city.

Today is the 16th death anniversary of journalist

A sector as large and as booming as RMG, with the majority of its 4.2 million workers being young women between 18 and 35...

The World Bank in its latest Public Expenditure review has found that 22 per cent of the development projects over the last five years...

Lt Col Aziz Ahmed Khan, a Pakistan army officer, who fought the 1971 war in Bangladesh, what was then East Pakistan until 26 March,

Pakistan not only lied by denying its atrocities in Bangladesh in 1971, it deliberately twisted facts to deny the genocide it committed on the Bangali people during the nine-month Liberation War.

The Supreme Court has said the assassination of the four national leaders was the result of a criminal conspiracy.

We fully endorse the Mayor of Dhaka (North) City Corporation's move to free public spaces of illegal occupation and make them available...

The government's move to make print newspapers obtain registration for their online editions is neither logical nor necessary.

Today is the 11th death anniversary of Selina Bahar Zaman, an educationist and cultural activist.

Habiba Karim, wife of late Munsur Ul Karim, died due to old-age complications at her Uttara residence on Sunday. She was 82. Her