Used syringes, bandages, plastic bottles and leftovers litter the pitch-black water of an open stinky drain surrounding a building. If you have a closer look, you may also discover human faeces floating at a place or two.

Five days have gone by but police are yet to arrest the man who allegedly provoked a father to commit suicide along with his seven-year-old daughter in Gazipur.

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday moved to ease the tension from US air strikes in April against Russian ally Syria, expressing a desire for a Syrian ceasefire and safe zones for the civil war's refugees.

Around 50,000 tonnes of mangoes got knocked off trees in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj by the season's first nor'wester Sunday

The results of Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations will be published simultaneously across the country today.

Bangladesh will host the next OIC foreign ministers' meeting in the second quarter of 2018.

North Korea yesterday confirmed the arrest of a US professor for trying to "overturn" the regime, as tensions spike between the

Only four out of 47 lawmakers including a minister have responded to a notice issued by the Jatiya Sangsad secretariat to the lawmakers to vacate their NAM flats as they are not staying there, a parliamentary committee said yesterday.

Chhatra League leaders and activists of Begum Rokeya University (BRU) in Rangpur confined Vice Chancellor Prof AKM Nurun Nabi to his office around 11:30am yesterday demanding the VC appoints BCL leaders to several university posts on an ad hoc basis.

The government has instructed the Bangladesh Bank to investigate the allegation that the country lost $75 billion due to trade misinvoicing and other unrecorded outflows between 2005 and 2014, State Minister for Finance and Planning M Abdul Mannan told parliament yesterday.

Three engineers of Water Development Board (WDB) were suspended yesterday over allegations of corruption in building and repairing embankments in the haor region.

Karoti Tripura, a housewife at Beatbunia under Sajek in Baghaichhari upazila of Rangamati, walked four long hours to collect only 10 kilogrammes of rice on Monday.

At least seven people were killed and 25 others injured when a bus ended up in a ditch while trying to overtake a vehicle in Haripur area on Tangail-Mymensingh highway last night.

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act would be removed.

Police yesterday filed the charge sheet against 38 people, including Shahjadpur Municipality Mayor Halimul Haque Miru and his brother Habibul Haque Mintu, in the murder case of journalist Abdul Hakim Shimul.

Nothing and nobody can console her. For the last three days, Halima Begum has been lamenting the deaths of her husband and daughter. Whenever she sees a little girl around, she embraces her and says, "Where have you gone my Ayesha?"

At least 11 people were killed as different establishments including houses and schools were damaged during nor'wester in three districts in last 60 hours since Sunday evening.

The Supreme Court Bar Association has apparently become split on the issue of whether the country's judiciary is functioning independently or not.

Police yesterday claimed to have arrested a close aide of Maj (sacked) Syed Ziaul Haq, the alleged military wing chief of the banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam, in the capital's Bhatara area.

Law Minister Anisul Haque yesterday said coordination was needed among the three pillars -- legislative, executive and judiciary -- for