Six years ago we were camping at Hail Haor in Moulvibazar's Sreemangal to study migratory passerine birds. Although our work involved watching birds early in the morning,

The Supreme Court yesterday asked the tanners to shut down their factories in the city's Hazaribagh and inform it on April 9 about the progress of the closure process.

Transport workers in Tangail began a bus strike Thursday morning without any warning, demanding cancellation of the draft Road Transport Act-2017 approved by the cabinet on Monday.

A group of strawberry pickers from Bangladesh has won a case against Greece at Europe's highest human rights court, after being shot at by employers for demanding unpaid wages.

The shifting geography of the country's southern coast creates both opportunity and challenge. Eight remote shoals twenty kilometres

Four people drowned and at least six others went missing after an engine boat capsized in the Meghna in Sonargaon upazila yesterday afternoon.

Tuition fees in public colleges, universities and medical colleges would increase fivefold in the next fiscal year, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday.

Awami League candidate Joya Sengupta, wife of late lawmaker Suranjit Sengupta, was declared unofficially elected in the by-election to

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has held talks with Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during his first visit to traditional ally Saudi Arabia since returning to the post in November.

British Prime Minister Theresa May published columns in seven European papers yesterday to stress that a Brexit deal was "in all our interests", striking a conciliatory tone before negotiations begin.

South Korean authorities faced a deluge of criticism yesterday for announcing that human remains had been found from the sunken Sewol ferry, only to correct themselves within hours to say they were animal bones.

Japan's ruling party said yesterday the government should consider developing the capability to strike enemy bases if the country is attacked, citing North Korea's missile and nuclear threats.

Ten members of a New York mafia family were arrested Tuesday on charges including attempted murder and extortion, prosecutors said, the latest blow against the area's organized crime syndicates.

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday claimed to have arrested four suspected members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Dohar on the outskirts of the capital.

The body of a Bogra police station's officer-in-charge was found hanging by the neck from a ceiling fan hook inside his residence yesterday morning.

The investigation agency of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 has started a preliminary investigation against controversial businessman Moosa bin Shamsher into his alleged involvement in crimes committed during the Liberation War in 1971.

Many areas of Barisal city have the horrible stench of rotting garbage as the waste has not been collected in three days.

Britain launched the process to leave the European Union yesterday, saying there was "no turning back" from the historic move that has split the country and thrown the bloc's future into question.

Even though two teams of engineering students from CUET and AIUB were selected by NASA for the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge, they are not taking part as most of the students had been denied visas.

Sharmin Akter was just 15 when her mother arranged her marriage with a man decades older than her. But instead of surrendering to family wishes as what most girls feel coerced to do given the socio-economic circumstances in Bangladesh, she spoke up.