Nor'westers accompanied by moderate rainfall lashed the capital and some other parts of the country including Chittagong and

A nor’wester hit Dhaka triggering a thunderstorm accompanied with sudden torrential downpour that beat down heat in the city ahead of summer.

A ban on jatka fishing is in place. Drives are being regularly conducted to prevent fishermen from catching the hilsa fry. And

Gonoforum President Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday demanded a national committee to protect Langalbandh, a place on the bank of the

Students of Rajshahi Government College demonstrated on the campus yesterday protesting fee hike in the final examination of honours

The activists of Barisal Gonojagoron Mancha yesterday formed a human chain in front of Aswani Kumar Hall of Barisal city demanding

Police this evening seized a portable video transmission backpack of Somoy Television near the Gulshan office of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in Dhaka.

A grid failure at Haripur in Narayanganj resulted in shut down of a number of power plants in the country leaving many areas in the capital including parliament and Bangabhaban without power for up to an hour.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith today faced wrath from lawmakers in parliament repeatedly for his claim that projects below Tk 25 crore from block allocation are being implemented in various parts of the country.

United Nations expresses deep concern over attacks on journalists and intellectuals in Bangladesh in the recent days.

France condemns the killing of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, who was brutally hacked by cleaver-wielding youths under broad daylight in Dhaka.

Rapid Action Battalion seizes 7,500 kg of jatka and fined 11 people Tk 5000 each for selling those at Karwan Bazar wholesale fish market in Dhaka, Rab sources say.

International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission (CHTC) yesterday strongly condemned the “alarming trend” of attacks on indigenous

Salman Khan's driver today appeared in court for the first time and said that he - not the actor - was driving the SUV that crushed people sleeping on a pavement in Mumbai in 2002.

Traffic movement on Dhaka-Rangpur highway remains suspended for one and a half hours as locals put up barricade protesting death of school student in Bogra road crash

The government will provide new electricity connections to 1.21 crore people within this year by setting up 3.23 lakh kilometres of transmission line and 650 sub-stations, says State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid Bipu.

The World Bank will construct at least 330 new cyclone shelters in the cyclone-prone areas of Bangladesh by 2017.

Police rescued a 13-year-old boy, who was kidnapped from Comilla last week for ransom, and arrested a man with whom he was found in

Amid a slack monitoring in recent months, the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh and a few other militant outfits have become active

BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed's wife yesterday again sought the prime minister's intervention in tracing him while Inspector General of