Fareez Rahman, the underage driver who hit two rickshaws with an SUV leaving four people hurt on October 12, has paid Tk 15,000 to

Brac Founder and Chairperson Sir Fazle Hasan Abed has been honoured as the 2015 World Food Prize Laureate for his outstanding

Genomes of 186 Bangladeshi rice varieties have been sequenced in Beijing Genomics Institute, China as part of a global collaborative project, opening up new opportunities for varietal developments.

Hundreds of patients have to take the trouble to move from one building to another every day for undergoing

"Borshakale nao ar shuknakale pao" is a popular saying among the people living in the haor regions. It means "boats during the

A senior leader of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that Muslims living in the country should give up consuming beef.

An internal probe has detected at least 170 official passports that the Department of Immigration and Passport (DIP) issued against fake no-objection certificates. A three-member investigation committee found brokers, travel agents and human traffickers in league with a section of officials were involved in what appears to be the biggest ever passport forgery in the country.

The government is going to establish a full-blown cantonment on both sides of the Padma Bridge to ensure security to the largest ever structure to be built in the country.

Accusing BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia again of conspiring to tarnish the country's image through killing of foreign nationals, the prime

Japanese national Kunio Hoshi who was shot dead in Rangpur on October 3 was buried at a graveyard in Rangpur early yesterday.

President Abdul Hamid and Chief Justice SK Sinha, in their recent comments, have really spoken for the people while talking about the abnormal rise of businessmen in politics.

Two powerful bombs exploded near the main train station in Ankara yesterday morning, targeting a peace rally and causing carnage,

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that BNP chief Khaleda Zia is conspiring from abroad to destabilise

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has hailed Bangladesh's efforts to integrate more women in the workforce and singled it out as an

A garment employee, Aklima Akhter shoulders the responsibility for her family from whom she was taken away by

Ziauddin Ahmed, owner of a small grocery in a village of Tongibari upazila in Munshiganj, had been suffering from

A four-year-old boy in the Chinese city of Chongqing has died after becoming wedged under an escalator handrail at a subway station.

Thirty-year-old Nadiya Hussain, who is of Bangladeshi origin, has risen to the occasion to be crowned the winner of this year's Great British Bake Off.

Silk cotton trees, Kodom trees and bamboo clusters at Mollan village in Chapainawabganj's Sadar upazila have become a paradise for Shamuk-khol birds.

Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize yesterday, honoured for her work chronicling the horrors of war and life under the repressive Soviet regime.