Several organisations of rights and cultural activists and freedom fighters yesterday protested Amnesty International's recent statement

In what appeared to be synchronised attacks on publishers of slain secularist writer-blogger Avijit Roy, unknown assailants hacked to death Faisal Arefin Dipan of Jagriti Prokashani and critically injured Shuddhoswar's Ahmedur Rashid Tutul yesterday. The body of 43-year-old Dipan was recovered from his second-floor office at Aziz Market in the capital.

A 19-member convening committee for the overall welfare and development of the Greater Mymensingh Samity was formed on October

The brutal attacks killing a publisher and injuring three others in the capital today may have been carried out at the same time, police suspect.

Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Haque feared for his son when he heard of the attack on Avijit Roy’s publisher Ahmedur Rashid Tutul.

South Sudan rebels on Thursday released 18 Bangladeshi peacekeepers they had taken captive, but were still holding 12 UN contractors

Had traffic been more disciplined, had housing been a serious enterprise, had civic and public spaces been nurtured, and had the landscape of water and green been sustained, Dhaka would also have been a magnificent, livable place. And that city is possible.

A tremor shook different parts of Sylhet district yesterday.

Twelve members of two neigbouring families were hospitalised as they fell sick after having dinner at one of their houses in Baluchar area

Investigators said the cargo master was responsible for the sinking of the coal-carrying vessel in the Shela river inside the Sundarbans.

'Saheed Sinha Gold Medal' has been introduced at the Department of International Relations (IR) of Dhaka University

Aiming to create awareness among the young people about child rights, child marriage and violence against women, "Hub for Change", an online platform for the girls' rights and youth activism, was launched yesterday.

The US-based SITE Intelligence Group has said it stands by its reports on the Islamic State's claims of responsibility for the killing of two foreigners and the bomb attacks on a Shia programme in Bangladesh.

Correct demographic data on slums and their dwellers, proper financing mechanisms and strong political will to back poor-friendly housing policies are needed to solve the housing problem of the urban poor, speakers observed at a policy seminar yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested two persons, including a DU student, for allegedly dealing an illicit agreement of question paper leakage with an admission seeker of 'Ka' unit at the university's Jagannath Hall.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Railways Ministry at a meeting yesterday discussed the latest progress of

The chamber judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday sent two petitions of convicted war criminals Jamaat-e-

A US State Department spokesperson has said the US is not certain about the presence of Islamic State in Bangladesh.

Nearly 280 people were killed yesterday as a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake centred in the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan ripped across South Asia, toppling buildings, triggering stampedes and knocking out communication lines.

Since the September 28 murder of Italian aid worker Cesare Tavella in Dhaka's diplomatic zone, one site seems to have taken it upon itself to link Bangladesh with ISIS.