Jamil Mahmud

It has been more than three years since Bakul Chakma filed a complaint with the CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission in February 2016. He accused some Bangalees of grabbing two acres of his farmland and a three-acre homestead.

The government is formulating a set of standards, which will impose limits on indoor air pollution, especially in workplaces, and empower itself to punish violators.

The government is going to formulate a set of rules in line with the Parents’ Maintenance Act-2013, in a bid to make sons and daughters take good care of their elderly parents.

He dodged death miraculously despite falling from the 19th floor of the Banani high-rise FR Tower while escaping Thursday's devastating fire that claimed at least 25 lives and left scores injured.

The administration together with the law enforcement agencies played a role to influence the December 30 polls outcome in favour of the ruling Awami League, the Left Democratic Alliance candidates have alleged.

Despite various preventive measures by government and non-government organisations, violence against women in Bangladesh shows little sign of decreasing.

Some 25 female journalists from different media outlets yesterday took to the streets, expressing solidarity with the women who recently shared their bitter experiences of sexual harassment and abuse on social media.

Since the abduction of indigenous leader Kalpana Chakma in 1996, an independent judicial inquiry was conducted and at least 39 officers have investigated the case.

The Taj Manzil of Kalyanpur in Dhaka saw a drastic change in last one and a half years after nine suspected militants, who had holed up there under the guise of tenants, were killed in police operation codenamed “Storm 26” on July 26, 2016.

The number of Bangladeshis working abroad is increasing every year but their safe migration still remains a big challenge for the government, posing a threat to the country's top remittance-earning sector.

Adding another feather to their already illustrious caps, two female pilots of Bangladesh Air Force are now all set to join the United Nations Peacekeeping mission in Congo.

In the busiest hour at a superstore in the capital's Gulshan, Shimu Gomez is busy putting an assortment of daily necessities in a specific order near the cash register.

School teacher Nurun Nahar Tanjila saw her life turn upside down barely a week into her marriage with college teacher Anwar Hossain.

In one corner of Bangladesh National Museum, Rafiqul Islam is painstakingly assembling small metal blocks on a specialised

In the last five years, as many as 2,733 people have been rescued from the clutches of human traffickers in Cox's Bazar. And 242 cases were filed against some 1,355 people over the incidents. However, not a single one has been disposed of.

Born without arms and legs, Janis McDavid, a 25-year-old youth from Germany, spent a large part of his childhood convincing himself that he was like everyone else.

The day started full of hope and enthusiasm for the family of Tajera Begum but turned tragic before noon.

A year has gone by but law enforcers could not even properly identify the people responsible for the sexual assault on women on Pahela Baishakh last year.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has come up with some dubious forms, asking house owners and tenants in different areas to fill in those with personal details, creating confusion and panic among the public. Police say they are doing it for security reasons. Three types of forms -- for house and flat owners, tenants, and mess owners and dwellers -- are available at the DMP headquarters and different police stations in the capital. Police members have also been going door to door, providing forms and collecting information, said DMP officials.

Arwa, aged five, stands still for long staring at a photo of her father, Sajedul Islam Suman. She hasn't seen him or been caressed by him in two years. Although she has begun to faintly feel a sense of loss, she still does not understand why her father disappeared the way he did. "She doesn't cry. But we can sense a vacuum has been created in her,” said her aunt Sanjida Islam. Suman, along with seven others, has gone missing from the capital since December 2013. Their families allege all of them were victims of “enforced disappearance” by Rapid Action Battalion.