The body of a kidnapped boy is recovered from a police constable’s house in Sylhet city

Mark Lowcock, UK Permanent Secretary for Department for International Development (DFID), arrives in Dhaka on a two-day official visit

The US embassy in Riyadh has cancelled all consular services for Sunday and Monday due to "heightened security concerns"

Bangladesh Cable TV Viewers Forum yesterday placed a set of demands, including inclusion of its actual representative in the committee

Rescue operation was called off on Friday, 23 hours after the roof of cement factory warehouse collapsed at Mongla, with the death toll

Thousands of students and teachers of National University form human chains across the country demanding withdrawal of the ongoing blockade, which is badly hampering education

Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed is jailed for 13 years after being found guilty of terrorism for ordering arrest of a judge when he was in power in 2012

Speakers at a high-level side event at the multi-sector programme addressing violence against women at the UN have underscored the need for coordinated effort of the national and international communities to stop such crimes.

Barisal police continues to maintain that a sub-inspector went “missing” after recently being suspended centring a case involving the torture and confinement of “his child bride”.

Although salinity, which poses a threat to human health, is on the rise in costal aquifer due to the sea level rise, a new

The annual general meeting (AGM) of Chapai Nawabganj Zila Samilty, Dhaka was held in the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in the capital yesterday.

As old Greece had its Iliad and Odyssey and old India its Mahabharata and Ramayana, so modern Bengal does its Nakshi Kathar Math and Sojan Badiar Ghat.

Detectives today claimed to have detained the prime administrator of pro-Jamaat-e-Islami Facebook page Basherkella from Comilla

A three-week training for superintendent-ranked police officials from the Saarc countries ended in Dhaka yesterday with a hope to

Digital marketing agency Magnito Digital from now on will spread the word about the government's Access to Information (a2i)

A Barisal City Corporation (BCC) attempt to remove some 20 makeshift shops encroaching on footpaths along a 150-feet stretch of

Chief Justice SK Sinha visited the Chief Judicial Magistrate’s Court in Dhaka following a bomb blast on its premises.

Concerned by the failure of Malaysian company IRIS Berhad in enrolling expatriates for machine readable passports (MRP) timely,

Five-year-old Md Monayem has been suffering from acute myeloid leukaemia popularly known as blood cancer.

Female journalists can play an important role in combating corruption in the country, said Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman at an orientation programme yesterday.