PAHELA Baishakh provides us with a reason to start afresh on a clean slate, to do away with all that is toxic and renew ourselves with

Günter Grass, the Nobel-winning German writer who gave voice to the generation that came of age during the horrors of the Nazi era but later ran into controversy over his own World War II past and stance toward Israel, has died. He was 87.

“I hope she [Khaleda Zia] will not have enough strength left to think again of ousting the government in future."

Hearing a petition, International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday granted the prosecution five more days till April 19, when they have to

Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) yesterday asked the city dwellers to conclude their Pahela Baishakh celebration within 5:00pm at

Tomorrow is the 44th death anniversary of the parents and three brothers of Saidur Rahman, senior news presenter of Television Channel

AFTER 44 excruciating years the widows of Sohagpur, now known as Bidhoba Palli (Village of Widows) in Nalitabari, Sherpur, have had

IT is disconcerting to see the rise in the number of deaths of Bangladeshis in BSF firing at the Bangladesh – India border, the most recent of which occurred on Saturday.

“I'm not interested in having battles that frankly started before I was born."

Environment experts and activists yesterday demanded that the government halt construction of the coal-fired Rampal power plant in

“We consider it [the execution] a victory because my father dies a martyr's death. That's why we flashed the V-sign.”

Shahidul Islam, former additional deputy inspector general of police, died from cancer in St Catherine's Hospital of Stuttgart, Germany on

Today is the 18th death anniversary of Mohiuddin Ahmed, a Language Movement veteran, and a Liberation War organiser, says a press

APPROXIMATELY 30 to 45 percent of slum dwellers are ill and 60 percent of their children chronically malnourished.

THIS is the first high level meeting between two chief diplomats of the United States (US) and Cuba since 1958.

25 individuals killed and a further 23 injured in a single bus accident as it swerved off the road and hit a tree on the Dhaka-Barisal highway on April 9.

IT is indeed heartening to see 1500 MW of electricity being added in the next three months to the country's power-starved national grid, as we hope that the newest addition will give the much-needed impetus to the country's economic growth.

WE are heartened to learn that the government plans to set up three new economic zones that will cater specifically for Japanese, Chinese and Indian firms intending to invest in Bangladesh.

ALMOST a year after the gruesome murders of seven men in Narayanganj, police have charged 35 individuals.

Twenty-five people were killed and 23 injured as a bus crashed onto a roadside tree on Dhaka-Barisal highway in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur early yesterday.