In an exclusive interview with Naznin Tithi of The Daily Star, Dr. Samanta Lal Sen, Coordinator of DMCH's Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit, talks about

Myanmar's navy found 727 people crammed on a fishing boat in its waters, the Ministry of Information said in a Facebook post Friday, adding the would-be "Bengali" migrants had been towed to an island.

After crippling traffic jams on workdays, the weekend was supposed to bring Dhaka city commuters some respite. But yesterday did not, especially for those travelling to Shahbagh's Shishu Park, Ramna Park, and adjacent areas through Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue.

At least 130 Indian pond turtles were seized by Dhaka Customs House at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday.

The qulkhwani of Mirza Abdus Samad will be held at his Gulshan residence in the capital after Maghrib prayers tomorrow.

A prominent Buddhist in Madura, East Java, Kosala Mahinda has condemned violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, emphasising that such treatment was against the true teachings of Buddhism.

Senior journalist Muhammad Shafiqur Rahman and News Editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Quamrul Islam Chowhdury were

Two city corporations of Dhaka will conduct small-scale eviction drives on footpaths at Gulistan and Farmgate on June 1 and 12 to

Dr Md Yousuf Ali Mollah of the chemistry department of Dhaka University, and Dr Dil Afroza Begum of the chemical engineering

Malaysia's government has expressed shock at finding human-trafficking camps and graves near the Thai border, but for local villagers the clues were right there in plain sight.

Filing of false cases, lack of evidence, out of court settlements and weak police investigation are some of the main reasons for low conviction rate under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000, according to a research.

The US hopes that information from maritime surveillance flights will provide a better understanding of the position of boat people at sea.

Three more defeated councillors in the polls to the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) on April 28 filed three cases with Election Tribunal

Rapid Action Battalion rescued 27 spotted deer in Taltola area of Bandar upazila in Narayanganj yesterday.

Time for submission of a further investigation report on the abduction of indigenous community leader and activist Kalpana Chakma

When the Myanmar navy seized a boat used by people smugglers last week, it announced that the 200 people found aboard were mostly Bangladeshis seeking better economic prospects in Southeast Asia.

Advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged that some of the thousands of displaced boat people -- many of whom are still stranded at sea -- were forcibly removed from their homes and put on migrant ships.

The government has planned to relocate thousands of registered Rohingya refugees living in refugee camps in Cox's Bazar for over two decades to Hatiya of Noakhali.

Sundarban Hotel in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar is evacuated fearing collapse after a boundary wall caved in because of an adjacent under-construction site.

Students of Dhaka University and human rights activists yesterday protested the gang-rape of a Garo woman in a microbus in the capital on Thursday night.