Three construction workers, including two siblings and their cousin, died after falling from a 10-storey under-construction building in the capital's Purbachal area of north Badda yesterday.

The five-day Durga Puja, the greatest of all Hindu festivals, ends today with solemn immersion of the goddess Durga across the country.

The installation of spans (superstructure) of the Padma Bridge beings today.

Amid the unfolding Rohingya crisis and the international pressure on Myanmar to stop ethnic cleansing, a BBC investigation has revealed that the UN leadership in Myanmar tried to stop the Rohingya rights issue being raised with the government.

A stampede on an overcrowded Mumbai railway footbridge lashed by a monsoon storm killed at least 22 people yesterday and raised new safety questions about one of the world's biggest rail networks.

The decomposed body of a class-X student was found floating in the Buriganga river in the capital's Postogola on Thursday evening, three days after he had gone missing.

The Hindu devotees yesterday celebrated Maha Ashtami across the country.

Dhaka University has formed two committees to probe into allegations of plagiarism brought against five of its teachers.

Sharishabari Municipality Mayor Rokonuzzaman Rokon, who was found in a tea estate in Sreemangal on Wednesday two days after he

On the fifth day of the special drive against traffic rule violators, the traffic police penalised 23 vehicles, including a Dhaka University

Dutch safety inspectors yesterday slammed "serious shortcomings" which led to the deaths of two soldiers serving as UN peacekeepers

Thousands of pensioners demonstrated across France yesterday over increases in their taxes, the latest group to take to the streets over

From the tender age of 11, Tahrima Akter Jimi, a farmer's daughter and resident of Khansama upazila in Dinajpur, took part in

The Anti-Corruption Commission cannot bring influential people to book for graft as they retain documents while holding posts, ACC

I go for a photography outing whenever I can, frequenting Ramna Park the most, as it is closest to my house. Next to Ramna, lies the

Tapati Rudra could not even start cooking before 11:00pm on Wednesday night. Her two children went to sleep empty stomach.

A visiting British minister has said Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is willing to take back all the Rohingyas.

Bangladesh is tackling the Rohingya crisis very effectively at the diplomatic level, Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Harsh Vardhan Shringla said yesterday.

Myanmar authorities have cancelled the planned visit of UN representatives to Rakhine State that has seen widespread violence forcing over 500,000 Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh.

A private hospital in the capital has allegedly replaced a baby boy of one couple with the dead infant of another.