The world of prejudice, constant division and conflict in which we live is enough to confuse. It's easy to feel overwhelmed. To better understand the human predicament, what sort of a world it is that one might dream of, it's as well to turn to a poet.

Jahangir Alam lives off Boro farming in Sunamganj for around seven months. For the rest of the year, he and his family subsist on fishing from the haors.

Shahidul Alam, one of Bangladesh's leading artistic voices, held a bold yet sincere exhibition yesterday on the outskirts of Dhaka that

Former US president Barack Obama urged lawmakers to follow their conscience and protect vulnerable Americans, as a Republican-backed bill that tore up his namesake health care reform law heads to the Senate.

Miscreants hacked and injured imam of Ahmadiyyaa mosque in Iswarganj upazila of Mymensingh last night.

The Supreme Court yesterday criticised the government for seeking more time to issue a gazette notification on the rules determining the code of conduct for lower court judges.

The BNP has backed out of its plan to introduce a bicameral parliamentary system if voted to power. However, it has decided to further examine the issue.

The government has brought some changes in its missions in South Korea, Vietnam, Sweden, Brazil, Oman and Libya through transfers and fresh appointments.

Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Iqbal Mahmud yesterday accused the Department of Narcotics Control of giving “inaccurate addresses” of drug peddlers, which was why, he said, the ACC could not continue with its crackdown against them.

Eighty-two of the more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in northeast Nigeria in 2014 yesterday headed to meet President Muhammadu Buhari after a prisoner swap deal with Boko Haram secured their release.

The families of 17 people killed in a boiler explosion on April 19 were given Tk 50,000 each yesterday.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid yesterday said the government has no plan to reduce oil prices for now as Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) may face a loss in the next fiscal year if international market prices continued to rise.

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has taken a senior pilot off-duty for allegedly sleeping on a London-bound flight, risking the lives of over 300 passengers on board by handing over the aircraft to a trainee.

Muggers shot a garment factory owner and snatched Tk 66 lakh from him in a busy area in broad daylight yesterday.

Even a few months ago, Khushi Rani Das was all smiles when she saw the green sheaves of Boro paddy on her two acres of land in Sunamganj's Tahirpur.

The day started like any other day for AG Mahmud on September 28, 1977. He was in a regular cabinet meeting that day. As the air chief and deputy Chief Marshal Law Administrator who was also holding portfolios of some ministries, this was business as usual.

Philippine police believe a Shiite Muslim cleric was the likely target of explosions that killed two people in Manila, an official said Sunday, rejecting Islamic State claims of involvement.

The Iraqi man laid the body of his wife, wrapped in a black shroud, gently on the bow of a small wooden boat and held onto it as a second man rowed slowly to pick up the man's three children standing a few metres away.

Waterlogged parts of eastern Canada were hit with more rain early Sunday, as freshly deployed troops helped evacuate residents ahead of peak flooding expected in the coming days.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier sought to move past a diplomatic dispute between his country and Israel while visiting yesterday, saying ties were strong enough to endure "turbulence".