M Abul Kalam Azad

A month has gone by since mentally challenged Polash Mia landed in prison on charges of attacking and looting Hindu houses in Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar upazila.

Once you take the newly-constructed Dhaka-Mymensingh highway after the agonising 12-km journey from Abdullapur to Joydebpur

With Dhaka's perennial traffic congestion getting worse by the day, Finance Minister AMA Muhith has given no solution to improve the situation other than some ideas he has been spouting about for years.

Imams, who provide religious guidance to local communities, are worldwide considered a key element in the fight against religious extremism. But Bangladesh is not getting the most out of them mainly due to flawed policies, experts say.

Conversion work of two major highways into dual carriageways is in the final stage and it will boost trade and travel in a major way. Travel times will be cut drastically once the work of broadening the highways, Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Mymensingh, is finished this June. There have been delays stretching into years in the completion of the projects. Costs also went up considerably, but the works are expected to be completed by middle of this year.

The recovery of a sophisticated sniper rifle and military suits in Chittagong yesterday and Friday's suicide blast at an Ahmadiyya mosque in Rajshahi are alarming additions to the country's security situation, says a security analyst.

It is a common phenomenon in many developing countries that government officials show a keen interest in attending conferences...

More than 130 countries have made a commitment to making their roads safer for users, especially the most vulnerable pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists, by improving and enforcing laws and developing sustainable public transport.

The fight against rising extremism sees no results mainly for three reasons -- problems within law enforcement agencies, poor political will of the government and a general inability of the masses and even a section of law enforcers to separate religion from radicalism.

Taking unfit vehicles off the roads is crucial to improving road safety as more people get killed in crashes involving such vehicles.

Thirty-two percent of the people who die on the roads of Bangladesh every year are pedestrians, says a global report on road safety, exposing how deadly the roads are for pedestrians. The pedestrian mortality rate is 10 percent higher than the global average, according to the Global Status Report on Road Safety 2015 released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva yesterday.

Lingering shortage of train operators and other essential staff for the past two decades has hobbled the services of Bangladesh Railway, the largest public transport sector in the country. Years of attrition, corruption, interference in appointments from powerful quarters and legal wrangling are responsible for the sorry state of the once most effective and cheap transport system for millions.

What happens when a train driver is fatigued, having worked late into the night, and has a train to drive in the morning?

In many madrasas, youths are fed with wrong interpretation of Islam and thus pushed towards militancy. Outfit leaders are motivating

Awami League lawmaker from Natore-2 Shafiqul Islam Shimul snatched away “a criminal” from Rab custody immediately after his arrest in Natore town on Tuesday night, said local AL leaders and journalists who witnessed the incident.

The law enforcement agencies are capturing the so-called Islamist militant operatives and foiling their “missions” to kill high-profile personalities and carry

Shah Alam and his wife Piyara Begum were sad when they left Board Bazar for Narsingdi sadar two days before Eid. Just a couple of months back, they had

Thousands of home-goers go through an indescribable suffering as their vehicles get stranded in a huge tailback on the Dhaka-Tangail highway.

He neither owned any business nor paid income tax when he applied for a licence to buy a firearm for protection of his life and assets. There was no police

Many eyebrows were raised when a consignment of liquid cocaine was seized at Chittagong Port on Saturday. But this is just one innovative tactic