After Barishal’s Aspia Islam was barred from joining as a police constable, despite passing the written, viva, and health tests, due to being “landless”, this time uncertainty looms over Barguna youth Sajal’s getting the job for the same reason.

The country lost $8.27 billion every year on average between 2009 and 2018 resulting from misinvoicing of values of imported and exported goods by traders to evade taxes and illegally move money across international borders, the Global Financial Integrity (GFI) said on Thursday.

Police recovered a decomposed body of a woman from a garbage depot in the Bhangapress area of ​​Jatrabari in the capital last night.

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Bangladesh will host a virtual “Concert for Migrants” to mark International Migrants Day tomorrow and to help raise awareness about safe migration.

Citizens joined Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday in taking an oath to build the country as a developed, prosperous and non-communal “Sonar Bangla” imbued with the ideology of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The words “Nazi forces” bring back memories of the horror unleashed at their concentration camps. What the Pakistani forces and their Bihari cohorts did at the Saidpur Railway Workshop in 1971 was as grisly as those events of World War II.

The number of people without food security in Bangladesh increased 2.4 percent to 5.2 crore between 2018 and 2020, found a recent study by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation -- as the pandemic worsened access to food.

Visiting Indian President Ram Nath Kovind said yesterday that the anti-liberation forces that brutally killed Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family did not realise that bullets and violence could not extinguish an idea that has captured the imagination of millions.

Visiting Indian President Ram Nath Kovind today said that seldom has humanity witnessed sacrifices on a scale so epic as during the 1971 Liberation War.

Delivering the vision of reshaping Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today promised to bring smiles to the faces of the distressed people as dreamt by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra today criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for not mentioning the name of Indira Gandhi during the official programme on the occasion of Vijay Diwas to mark India’s victory over Pakistan in the 1971 war that led to the emergence of independent Bangladesh.

People from different walks of life in Sylhet city remembered members of a family -- of Dr Digendra Chandra Endaw -- who were martyred on Victory Day of 1971.

Seventeen dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Bangladesh Bank has asked electronic payment gateways to start paying back money to the customers who did not get delivery of products from the rogue e-commerce platforms despite making advance payments.

After the Bangladesh-India relationship has achieved new heights and saw the amicable resolution of various difficult issues, the countries now seek further changes to improve the lives of the two peoples. 

For the last 50 years, Kulsum Begum has been leaving the front door open for her son to come home.

The Liberation War in Bangladesh formally ended with the unconditional surrender by the Pakistan army in Dhaka today.

Fifty years ago when Bangladesh emerged as an independent nation defeating a brutal military campaign by Pakistan, it was a country in ruins.

Bangladesh banned air rifles today to stop poachers killing vulnerable wildlife, including flocks of migratory birds that fly all the way from Siberia seeking warmer winter climates.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy came down heavily on Jamaat-e-Islami for its wartime brutalities and conspiracies geared towards strengthening the footing of Pakistan and wiping out the dream of freedom cherished by Bangladeshis.