Extortionists, allegedly backed by some city corporation officials, have been collecting about Tk 1.5 lakh daily in illegal toll as “parking fees” from goods-laden vehicles entering Karwan Bazaar.

Scourge Spreading

Four-year-old Tahia and her sister Tathoi, 2, were repeatedly asking their parents how long it was to reach their grandfather's house. They asked their parents to wake them up after they get there and went to sleep, but never got a chance to wake up.

There has been a noticeable bounce-back of confidence among the US retailers in Bangladeshi garments.

Today, as a nation, we are ashamed of what we have become; we are ashamed of the barbarians amongst us, who find perverse pleasure in the torture and death of a child, so much so that they record the act and share it gleefully on Facebook.

As it is, there has been a deficit of .2 billion litres of potable water in the capital and the only water treatment plant in Saidabad is unable to meet the growing water supply needs of the burgeoning city...

SK Iqbal Hossen, district facilitator (Kishoreganj) of the UNDP-supported and Local Government Division implemented Union Parishad Governance Project, died yesterday at the National Institute of Chest Disease and Hospital in the capital's Mohakhali. He was 43.

It is certainly big news that the government did not borrow from the banking system last fiscal year. Not only that, it also repaid a big

To say that the traffic in the capital is in a total mess would be a gross understatement. Nothing can describe the chaos and the

The namaz-e-janaza of Maj Gen (retd) Amjad Khan Chowdhury, chief executive officer of Pran-RFL Group, will be held at 2:15pm on Wednesday at the city's

We are shell-shocked at the death of 23 women and four children in a stampede during zakat distribution at a businessman's house in

We welcome the move by the prime ministers of India and Pakistan to cooperate on eliminating `all forms' of terrorism in South Asia. It

Today is the 12th death anniversary of Barrister Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed, former adviser to a caretaker government, says a press release.

When Chand Raat, the night to spot the new moon, would add to the Eid celebrations of the affluent people, the poor of Chittagong city would most

Women and adolescent girls remain utterly vulnerable to grim health hazards and sexual violation during disasters and conflict

Ariful Mowla Choudhury (Razy), a freedom fighter, died from a stroke on June 26 in California, USA, at age 60, says a press release.

MA Aziz, founder president of Bianibazar upazila Awami Legue, died of old-age complications at his daughter's residence in Kalighat

Today is the 11th death anniversary of Begum Khurshid Chowdhury, wife of former President Justice Abu Sayeed Chowdhury.

It is not possible for a mayor to solve Dhaka city's garbage management problem without help from the residents, said Dhaka North City

The Finance Minister's estimate that widespread graft takes 2 to 3 percent off the economy has serious implications for the country's development.