With a morale-boosting win against Afghanistan in the bag and brilliant sunshine at the backdrop, Bangladesh team left Canberra early yesterday morning.

LIKE the universe, Bangladesh's politics is continually expanding! It is in a constant revolution on a bipolar axis, so to speak. And, the unresolved debate over genesis also curiously plays out: Which came first -- the egg or the hen? This shapes understanding of politics depending on which side of the political spectrum one is. The neutral silent majority knows full well where and how our political history coursed up on a wrong tangent from the core set of Liberation War ethos.

Ruling Awami League tells the visiting European Union parliamentary delegation that the party does not sit in a dialogue with BNP until the ongoing violence stops

Ruling Awami League the visiting European Union parliamentary delegation that the party will not sit in a dialogue with BNP until the ongoing violence stops

Eight labourers are burnt in an effort to douse a fire that broke out at a spinning mill in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj.

A pickup van driver, burnt in an arson attack by blockaders recently, dies at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital this morning.

A few days ago, in a news interview in Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) radio here in the US, a journalist covering events in Afghanistan provided a grim view of the prospects of democracy in that country.

Mushfirqur Rahim in post match press conferece

An electronics factory caught fire in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur

The tiny hut at the edge of the sea is barely large enough for Bokul Mondol and his family. The water took everything else from them, and one day it may take this, too.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warns the country's leading English daily, The Daily Star, for “patronising banned militant organisation Hizb-ut Tahrir by publishing its poster”.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina accuse Khaleda Zia of having a link with international militant group Islamic State (IS), and said the BNP chief will have to face trial for killing people.

The visiting EU parliamentary delegation did not express any concerns about the human rights situation in Bangladesh, claimed State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam.

The Supreme Court is set to release the full verdict upholding the death penalty for war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman that has already been signed by the four apex court judges

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently sent letters to PM Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chief Khaleda Zia, saying that UN Assistant Secretary General Oscar Fernandez-Taranco is acting on current political impasse of Bangladesh on behalf of the secretary general

Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim help Bangladesh reach massive total against Afghanistan

Dhaka tribunal hands death penalty to Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdus Subhan on three charges for crimes against humanity in Liberation War in 1971

Bangladesh skipper Mashrafe Mortaza led from the front as Tigers struck thrice early defending the total of 267 against Afghanistan in the seventh World Cup 2015 match at Canberra. Mashrafe took two in the first and third overs of the match while Rubel Hassan claimed one in between. Afghanistan were in trouble with their scoreboard beneath double figures.Earlier, Bangladesh made 267 riding on fifties of Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim against World Cup debutant Afghanistan.

Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeks all-out cooperation from all in rooting out militancy, terrorism from the country

Elections to the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) are likely to be held in the middle of next June, said Election Commission Secretary Sirajul Islam today.