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

More than half of the new councillors, both in general wards and reserved seats for women, in Chittagong city have been elected for

Today is the fourth death anniversary of Tushar Guha, photographer of Chittagong Metropolitan Sports Association.

Today is the 30th death anniversary of Sirajuddin Ahmad; founding president of Elite Paint Group, former president of Chittagong

IT is difficult to accept the comments of the CEC that the three city corporation elections were held in a fair and peaceful manner and that there were no threats or anomalies.

IT is disquieting to see that the media was conspicuously barred from properly covering the city polls.

“In a country where several lakh people get out on the streets hearing a rumour that Sayedee [convicted war criminal Delawar Hossain

For more than two decades, Mohiuddin Chowdhury has almost single-handedly controlled the politics of Chittagong city. His sway was

The number of child labourers in Bangladesh has reduced to 2.48 million from 4.91 million in last 10 years, according to studies of Centre for Services and Information on Disability (CSID), a research-based organisation working to eliminate child labour.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is mounting an emergency operation to help survivors of the Nepal earthquake, said a

At least 65 women each of the river gypsy community yesterday got swing machines from a Kuwait based NGO Moushru al Zari in Savar

WHAT started off as a peaceful, tension-free day of voting, turned out to be a disappointment for the city dwellers of Dhaka and Chittagong.

A report published by this newspaper yesterday reveals an alarming fact about Dhaka's parks. The capital city, ranked one of the worst liveable in the world, has only 54 parks when, ideally, it should have 92.

With almost all businesses in Dhaka closed yesterday for the city corporation elections and a public holiday, hundreds of biriyani restaurants, small to big, in Old Dhaka recorded brisk sales.

The Japanese government has taken an initiative to retrofit Bangladesh's vulnerable garment factory buildings in order to make those jolt-resistant and safe for workers.

“Go home, voting has ended." These are the words that the Ansar members posted to guard a polling centre in Goran of Dhaka told voters around 1:30pm.

As the two major cities in the country go to the polls today to elect their mayors, there is a high degree of expectation tinged with a sense

We are outraged that a teacher was allegedly sexually assaulted on a campus by a student, that too, by an activist of a ruling party student

Officially, a city councillor's job is not lucrative as councillors have little authority to exercise. All they get to do is sign some