It was ZA Bhutto whose machinations were behind the brutal genocide in Bangladesh. Even before the blood had dried on his hands, Bhutto wanted to form a confederation with Bangladesh. But Bangabandhu gave him a befitting reply.

Public servants will be entitled to two automatic grade raises during their service as an alternative to the existing selection grade and time scale.

Bangladesh has joined a Saudi Arabia-based 34-state Islamic military coalition to combat terrorism, according to a joint statement published on state news agency SPA.

As another day concluded with Indian Air Force MIG-21s and Hunter jets screaming across Dhaka sky, firing off missiles and strafing targets below with the strange sound of a heavy steel chest being dragged upon a coarse concrete floor, General AAK Niazi rode towards the governor's house in downtown Dhaka. All he could do was look up at the sky and see the glowing tracer rounds from his Ack Ack battery drawing lazy arcs across the dark sky in a city engulfed in air raid precaution darkness. He could hear anti-aircraft guns around the air field going off furiously. Acrid smell hung in the cold December air.

Presently, Afghanistan is one of the most challenging places in the world to be a woman, bit it was not always such a repressive country. Photographs from the 1950s and 60s depict a very different Afghanistan.

The government unblocks all social media platforms including Skype, Twitter, WhatsApp and Viber.

A complaint is lodged against National Cricket Team player Anamul Haque Bijoy for beating and stabbing a young man in Kushtia.

Kumar Sangakkara has left Bangladesh in the manner that he always does: on top. The last time he came here, he went back home with the T20I World Cup and prior to that he had ambled his way to his first ever triple century. With 349 runs for the Dhaka Dynamites this time, he has exited the Bangladesh Premier League as the competition's highest run-getter. The best part about Sangakkara's stint in the BPL this time perhaps was the determination that he

Three days after lifting a 22-day ban on Facebook, the government blocks the social networking sites Twitter, Skype and Imo while WhatsApp and Viber still under the restrictions.

One of the visitors at the Barcelona Zoo performed a simple magic trick for an orangutan watching from behind a glass enclosure. The curious animal's reaction might just be one of the funniest things you have ever seen.

Pakistan's own Hamoodur Rahman Commission found “sufficient evidence” to try the top army generals, including Yahya Khan, for committing atrocities in Bangladesh but Bhutto kept the report under wraps to save the face of the powerful army and satisfy his own hunger for power.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said that by building the Padma bridge with local funding, Bangladesh wants to show the world it is now capable of implementing any mega project on its own. Addressing the groundbreaking ceremony of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project and river training work at Janjira, she said her government's decision to implement this dream project with own funding was a challenge.

Refayet Ahmed, admin of a Facebook page called “Moja Losss?” was placed on a two-day remand yesterday for allegedly running

The government decides to unblock Facebook but the restriction on online messaging and calling services WhatsApp and Viber will stay for security reasons, the BTRC chairman says.

Top Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra says she works 16 hours a day to get recognition and money, and has no time to enjoy life. The National Award-winning actor has become a household name not only in India but globally too with her American TV show, “Quantico”.

If you think that you have not disappointed your parents enough by not being able to get accepted at a medical school...

The villainy of ZA Bhutto and his rogue country put Bangladesh at a serious disadvantage when it started preparing for the trial of the 195 War Criminals. As a new country without much international diplomatic clout and its attempts for UN membership vetoed by Pakistan's ally China, Bangladesh had to consider the fate of the Bangladeshis held hostage by Pakistan.

Illegal capital flight from Bangladesh surged 33.78 percent year-on-year to $9.66 billion in 2013 through trade misinvoicing and other channels, according to a report of Global Financial Integrity. The highest in a decade, the amount was more than six percent of the country's GDP and one-third of the export receipts in 2013. It is three times the size of average foreign direct investment Bangladesh received in recent times.

Doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) have declared dead the five-year-old boy following his rescue from the Buriganga River in the old part of Dhaka this evening.

An image of a portrait underneath the Mona Lisa is found beneath the existing painting using reflective light technology, according to a French scientist.