About a thousand workers of two garment factories in Ashulia demonstrated in Savar Bus Stand area yesterday pressing home their five-

With councillors verbally expressing extending their support, Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon yesterday

With the rice imported from neighbouring India selling at lower prices, the demand for the local varieties is on the decline, pushing 65

Police could not arrest anyone till last evening over the murder of a security guard of Al-Arafa Islami Bank Ltd in Chittagong city early

Private bus owners and workers yesterday began an indefinite strike in Rajshahi district demanding withdrawal of BRTC services from

Bangladesh will take up the opportunity of low fuel oil prices in international markets to adjust prices at home, said Finance Minister

A voluntary medical team formed by ZH Sikder Women's Medical College and Hospital and National Bank Ltd left Dhaka for Kathmandu

The youth in Bangladesh (ages 15-30) form almost a third of the country's population, and almost half the youth population are women.

Freedom fighter and cultural personality Nasiruddin Yusuf Bachchu yesterday said the government had failed to arrest the Pahela Baishakh molesters

Over 100 shop owners of Noyarhat Bazar in Ashulia kept businesses shut throughout the day and blocked the adjoining Dhaka-Aricha

Commemorating the death of 28 million people of the former Soviet Union in World War II, veteran leftist politician Ajoy Roy yesterday

Misreporting is complicating the efforts to address the problem of early marriage in Bangladesh, a new study by icddr,b reveals.

The cargo vessel carrying fertiliser that sunk in the Bhola River at Sarankhola range of the Sundarbans on Tuesday is yet to be salvaged even after four days.

Three people were killed and another was injured as a nor'wester swept through Shahjadpur upazila of Sirajganj on Thursday night.

As legal channels for labour migration from Bangladesh have shrunk due to malpractices in the arrangements by both private agencies and the government, desperate jobseekers take dangerous sea route to Malaysia.

After the discovery of “death camps” in southern Thailand, reports are now trickling in that there may be similar slave camps housing illegal immigrants on the Malaysian side of the border.

No condition to bring down the minimum marriageable age for females from 18 to 16 should be added to the proposed "Child Marriage Restraint Act 2014", activists from three networks of over 500 local and foreign NGOs and development organisations said yesterday.

In a rare display of unanimity, India's Rajya Sabha yesterday passed the landmark constitution amendment bill to ratify the long-pending Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday gave a 10-day deadline for a complete scrutiny of all areas for possible detention camps

The Chittagong University authorities yesterday issued a written statement, trashing the allegation that Vice Chancellor Prof Anwarul