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 decision to centrally initiate this year's college admissions through an online system may have been well-intentioned but its poor execution has left two lakh students still without a seat in a college.

The issue of import of poor quality wheat will certainly leave a poor taste, literally in some cases, in the mouth of the public.

Like previous years, long queues formed in front of the ticket counters at Kamalapur Railway Station yesterday, the first day of advance sales ahead of Eid-

A memorial ceremony and doa mahfil for Syed Humayun Kabir, chairman of Renata Ltd and founder of Sajida Foundation, will be held

A doa mahfil for Justice Sultan Hossain Khan, former chief election commissioner, will be held on Saturday after Asr prayers in Masjid-Al-

We welcome the decision to mount police vigil on highways to prevent extortion by lawmen and transport organisations during the rush Eid season.

On July 5, the Greek people unanimously voted “No” in the country's referendum on whether to accept the terms of the EU bailout, with a convincing 61 percent of people rejecting the austerity measures brokered by European powers.

Today is the 14th death anniversary of eminent journalist and author Mahbub Anam, former editor of The Bangladesh Times.

It is jarring to note that up to two-thirds of the country's children are subjected to some kind of beating by their parents.

The contradictory remarks of the state minister for home and officials of Rab and police, regarding the arrest of sexual assaulters during the Pahela Baishakh celebrations, are both perplexing and disappointing.

Today is the 22nd death anniversary of AZ Syed Ahmed Chowdhury, a former politician and social worker of Feni.

ATM Motiur Rahman, a freedom fighter and civil surgeon of Manikganj, died of cardiac arrest on Monday. He was 57.

Syed Humayun Kabir, chairman of Renata Ltd and founder of SAJIDA Foundation, died at 6:36pm yesterday in the capital's Apollo Hospital, aged 83.

Today is the 22nd death anniversary of AZ Syed Ahmed Chowdhury, a former politician and social worker of Feni.

While Bangladesh has made significant progress in terms of improving social indicators such as a higher completion rate of primary education and access to drinking water, there are regional disparities in areas such as children's nutrition, access to sanitation and maternal healthcare.

Despite concerns and criticisms from different quarters about the “substandard” quality of wheat imported from Brazil, the government is going ahead with its plans of distributing the wheat under different safety net schemes, such as Test Relief, Open Market Sales and Food for Work programmes.

Saleha Huq, mother of Fayza Huq, former senior staff writer of The Daily Star, died due to old age complications at a Dhaka hospital on Sunday. She was 90.

Sultan Hossain Khan, a former chairman of the Anti Corruption Commission also former chief election commissioner, died on Saturday. He was 91.