The Jatiya Sangsad will go into its 18th session on November 12 after a 59-day recess.

The shutting down of Bangladesh's first submarine cable for maintenance started affecting internet users yesterday with many getting intermittent and slow internet during peak hours.

The government is going to build a 24-kilometre elevated expressway from Dhaka airport to Ashulia for quick entry and exit of vehicles to and from the capital.

The Kremlin yesterday dismissed any criticism over the knife attack on a liberal radio journalist as work of a "madman" amid accusations the state fomented an atmosphere of hatred towards dissenters.

From now on, students taking public examinations will have to enter their respective exam halls half an hour before the tests begin.

Catalan separatists yesterday threatened "mass civil disobedience" against the Spanish government if it fulfils its vow to depose the

Eight people including seven of a family suffered burns in a fire believed to have originated from accumulated gas in the capital's

A note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo, briefly describing his theory on happy living, has surfaced after 95 years and is

Police claimed to have recovered a huge quantity of bomb-making materials in a raid on an alleged militant den in Jessore town last night.

The committee, formed to investigate the felling of trees on Uttara Gonobhaban premises in Natore's Dighapatia, has held five Public Works Department (PWD) officials and a PWD enlisted contractor responsible for misappropriating government properties.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is likely to visit Cox's Bazar on October 29 to see the condition of the Rohingyas who have fled to Bangladesh to escape persecution in Myanmar.

Jordanian Queen Rania Al Abdullah yesterday called upon the international community to respond "effectively, quickly, and generously" to alleviate the suffering of Rohingyas.

More often than not a free flowing river has as fast companions transport and trade. Where a watercourse is undisturbed, fish stocks thrive. Such was

Nutrition is the foundation of human health, education and economic development, and yet it gets poor attention pulling back nations

A Dhaka University student deposited Tk 1.50 lakh into the bank account of Alip Kumar Biswas, a suspected member of a racket

Sohel Taj yesterday alleged that his suitcase was broken into at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital.

Absence of safety measures at a demolition site led to the deaths of three sisters, all aged below 10, and an adult in Pagla of Narayanganj, yesterday.

Village arbitration allowed an influential youth to get away with the allegation of attempting to rape a madrasa girl in Pachashi of Gouripur upazila.

A personal letter found on the body of a man killed in the sinking of the Titanic sold at auction on Saturday for 126,000 pounds ($166,000), a record price for correspondence from the doomed liner.

Hundreds of hard-line Buddhists protested yesterday to urge Myanmar's government not to repatriate the nearly 600,000 minority Rohingyas who have fled to Bangladesh since late August to escape violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.