The country will face a cattle shortage of up to 30 percent during Eid-ul-Azha this year due to India's ongoing curb on cattle supply. Taking advantage of the shortage, a group of unscrupulous traders may charge exorbitant prices for sacrificial animals during the festival, if immediate measures to import cattle are not taken by the government amid the Indian restriction.

A report published in this daily yesterday revealed the awful conditions of Islamia UP Government Primary School in Sutrapur of Old Dhaka. Four other schools in the same area are in no better state.

Inbound remittance from expatriate workers in the Middle East in fiscal year 2014-15 stood slightly above US$9 billion reflecting a rise of 8 percent from the level of previous year.

When the Chinese stock market suffered its biggest slump in eight years on Monday, it took several of the world's billionaires down with it.

Apart from the Indian Border Security Force, members of Hindu nationalist group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) are active along the India-Bangladesh border to check supply of cows to Bangladesh through informal channels.

Urbanisation in the country is necessary but it will have to be done protecting the waterbodies, greeneries, and hills, speakers told the

The 'discovery' of yet more mass graves along the heavily-forested Malaysia-Thailand border makes the case that the Southeast Asia human trafficking disaster is far from being over.

It is a reality commonly acknowledged that land administration in the country is fraught with corruption and inefficiencies, making it difficult for people to access land-related services and resolve disputes over land.

Akhter Hamid Monsur, a veteran journalist and former General Manager (Public Relations) of Bangladesh Export Processing Zones

The Islamic State group has blown up a famed temple in Syria's ancient Palmyra, in an act the UN condemned as a war crime and an "immense loss" for humanity.

The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested a person with 270kg of sulphur, which can be used for making explosives, in Karnaphuli

There has been more than 25 percent increase in money laundering cases lodged with the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) year-on-year in 2014.

The Editors' Council yesterday strongly demanded cancellation of section 57 (1) and (2) of the Information and Communication Technology Act.

Today is the 1st death anniversary of Ruhul Amin, an engineer.

There are a few organisations in the country whose name is synonymous with corruption. Our capital development authority is one such. And the report carried in this paper yesterday explains why that is so.

We note with concern that the family of two school girls, murdered earlier this month in Madaripur, is being threatened and harassed by

In a surprise but welcome move, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) which conceded defeat in the election to Wickremesinghe's United National Party (UNP) on August 17 has announced that it will join a unity government with the winning incumbent. This marks a

UK Minister of State for Department of International Development Desmond Swayne will arrive in the capital today on a three-day visit to

An international conference held in the capital yesterday highlights the importance of restorative justice toward reducing crime and bringing peace and harmony in the society.

AUGUST 21, 2004 will go down as one of the blackest days in our political history.