Zahidul Islam bought a used motorcycle and went to Bangladesh Road Transport Authority's (BRTA) Mirpur office in September

Important new details about the situation in western Myanmar have been revealed through International Crisis Group's interviews with several members of the armed group that carried out attacks against government forces in October and November and also other sources, says a report of Time magazine.

A written complaint was filed with police against a shop owner in Chittagong's Hathazari upazila yesterday after he allegedly made a post on Facebook “hurting religious sentiments of the Muslims”.

There was instigation from the Rangpur Sugar mills authorities as well as the police behind the incident that happened centering the eviction of Santals in Gaibandha's Gobindaganj upazila on November 6, finds an Awami League probe.

Describing militancy and terrorism as major global concerns, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has underscored the need for identifying the sources of terror financing to stamp out the scourge of the menace from the society.

The BNP will urge the president to include at least two names from its list of potential members of the search committee which would be formed for constituting the new Election Commission.

Two members of Jubo Samiti, an associate organisation of PCJSS (MN Larma), were killed allegedly by UPDF members in

The Supreme Court has asked the Election Commission not to allocate “daripalla” (weighing scale) as polls symbol to any political party or individual candidate in elections.

A lost drawing by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in the papers of a French provincial doctor, a

Four lighter vessels capsized and two crew members of a ship went missing in separate incidents over a span of four hours

More journalists have been jailed this year by governments around the world than at any time in nearly three decades,

The Santal community has every right to save their property, but attacks on them are not acceptable and the matter should not be taken easily, said Kazi Reazul Hoque, chairman of National Human Rights Commission Bangladesh.

The cabinet yesterday approved in principle a draft law proposing the service tenure of the chiefs of the army, the navy and the air force to be four years.

A man and his parents who brutally tortured his wife for dowry were sent to a Tangail jail on surrender yesterday.

Twenty-two district council chairman candidates have been declared elected unopposed by the Election Commission.

At least 130 countries unanimously agreed to have a global treaty for better protection of the migrants, a global phenomenon that is increasing rapidly across the world.

The Supreme Court yesterday decided to ask the Election Commission not to allocate “daripalla” (weighing scale) as election symbol to any political party.

Some Bangladesh central bank officials deliberately exposed its computer systems and enabled hackers to steal $81 million from its account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in February, a top investigator in Dhaka told Reuters yesterday.

A Chittagong court yesterday granted three-day remand for each of the five alleged Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) men who were arrested by Rab in the city's Uttar Kattali area with arms and ammunitions four days ago.

A fire broke out at a slum in the capital's Mohakhali early today.