Impunity Making Canal Grabbers Impudent

Today is the fourth death anniversary of Lt Col (retd) Quazi Nooruzzaman Bir Uttam, commander of sector-7 during the Liberation War.

Emran Hossain and Mohammad Ali Zinnat did an extensive investigation into human trafficking from Bangladesh to Malaysia. For over three months, they carried out a thorough research, interviewed trafficking victims, brokers and rights groups, and travelled to the southeastern coastal areas before reporting on the clandestine crime that brings to mind the horror of slave trade of the past.

Thailand's national police chief said yesterday that the head of Satun police will be suspended from duty in connection with the ongoing investigation into human traffickers active near the southern border.

Rafiqul Islam Mahmood, chairman of the chemistry department at Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University, died of a

The labour of female workers is not recognised in three important areas -- potato and maize cultivation and poultry rearing --

Sadat Quddus, eldest son of Abdul Quddus and late Munira Quddus, presently of Rajshahi House, died of cancer yesterday, said a press release.

At least 32 mass graves of victims of trafficking from Bangladesh and Myanmar were found two days ago in an abandoned jungle in southern Thailand...

Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent has claimed responsibility for the death of four Bangladeshi bloggers, including US-based Bangladeshi writer Avijit Roy.

THE Bangladesh cricket team deserves a pat on the back and so do the officials who are associated with the team for a performance that has seen several individual and international records tumble on the last day of the Khulna Test between Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The media is expanding which points to an increasing diversity and volume of information and visuals. Governments tend to equate rising flow of information with free flow of information. A line needs to be drawn there.

Promising jobs in Malaysia, transnational human traffickers held about 2.5 lakh Bangladeshis captive in Thailand...

Kuramia, a migrant, paid out Bt 95,000 in ransom to save his nephew Kazim, who was being held at a border camp. But he never saw him alive. His nephew's was among 26 bodies recently exhumed from a mass-grave site in Songkhla's Sadao district.

At least 15 traders were injured and eight were shot with shotgun pellets when the police opened fire and charged batons on them during a mobile court drive inside Banani Super Market on Thursday.

As per a survey published by the ICDDR,B 14 percent of urban children are overweight and a further 4 percent are obese.

Rawshan Ara Begum, mother-in-law of Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman, died on Wednesday. She was 80.

Freedom fighter Prodip Kuar Das died at his home in Nazirpur upazila in Pirojpur yesterday. He was 59. He was an assistant teacher of

MA Mazid Khan, former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank, died from a cardiac arrest yesterday, aged 72, says a press release.

Except for a handful few, most of the country's workers do not enjoy the rights as per the labour law. Even those who are claimed to

Half a million tents are urgently needed for the huge number of people forced from their homes by Nepal's devastating earthquake, a