AS reported in this paper on March 31, the Bangabandhu Bridge Authority (BBA) is apparently turning a blind eye to a syndicate of sand traders that has been engaged for the last three months in removing precious sand a mere kilometre away from the bridge site.

WE are shocked and appalled by yet another murder of a blogger, Oyasiqur Rahman, in broad daylight, barely a month after the savage murder of blogger and activist Avijit Roy.

The above two before-and-after photos show the sheer lack of

AT least 14 Hindu families have been evicted by land grabbers, allegedly at the behest of a local Jubo League leader, in Taltaliupazila of Barguna district.

BY all indications, it appears that the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has decided to participate in the Dhaka (North and South) and Chittagong City Corporations elections.

WARBE Development Foundation, which works with migration, organised a programme to reveal the Annual Migration Report-2014 at

Freedom fighter Nazmul Haque Tara died of old-age complications at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital on Sunday night. He was 68.

Sheikh Ali Haider, Chittagong bureau chief and special correspondent of Bonik Barta, died of a cardiac arrest at Birdem Hospital in Dhaka

Democracy In The Air?

WOMEN seeking to stand on their own face daunting odds in procuring seed money to start a business or set up a small enterprise.

THE incident of 42 students being meted out brutal punishment by a teacher in a school at Bagha upazila and the subsequent reaction, equally violent, brings to the fore the issue of corporal punishment for the umpteenth time.

To build a truly democratic nation, it is necessary to create a society free from gender discrimination and recognise that gender issues

Laila Haque; wife of Nurul Haque Mollah, chairman of Abhaynagar Upazila Parishad in Jessore; died from a cardiac arrest at her Nawapara

Today is the fifth death anniversary of Khoda Baksh Mridha, a renowned sports commentator and a college teacher.

Today is the 44th death anniversary of martyred freedom-fighter Col Syed Abdul Hai, said a press release.

Placement of heavy construction material on the intersection between Road 98 of Gulshan and the DCC market for more than two months

We are aghast at the deaths of 10 devotees due to a stampede during a bathing ritual for Hindu pilgrims in Narayanganj.

It is a time for change and the young minds who gathered at the Shaheed Suhrawardy National Indoor Stadium yesterday showed

Emotions ran high inside Shaheed Suhrawardy Indoor Stadium in the capital's Mirpur yesterday as names of the awardees were being

Today is the 17th death anniversary of Abdul Hai, former member of Bengal Civil Service and a deputy secretary of the erstwhile East