Can you touch your belly button by reaching behind your back and around your waist?

In a shocking display of what experts term is utter disrespect towards women, a Dhaka school has recently set a question for its seventh graders construing women's way of clothing as being responsible for harassment.

Doctors in China removes 420 kidney stones from a single patient, it's reported.

Nineteen hundred sixty-five was a year for the people of Bangladesh, West Bengal and northeastern region of India to remember for all the wrong reasons. After the Indo-Pak war that year, road, rail and waterway connections between the regions were cut off permanently. After Bangladesh's independence in 1971, only the inland water communications with India reopened.

Scientists at the icddr,b have developed a special food rich in protein and micronutrients that can help recover children suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM).

The treble-winning FC Barcelona stars show the Champions League, La Liga and Copa del Rey trophies through the Catalan capital.

The Embassy of the Republic of Korea organises the first ever K-pop contest in Bangladesh on June 6 2015. K-pop is a musical genre consisting of electronic, hip hop, pop, rock, and R&B music originating in South Korea.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that “there is no democracy in Bangladesh”.

Terming ratification of land deal as “no less significant than the fall of the Berlin Wall”, Indian PM Modi says water issues need to be resolved from humanitarian perspective.

Joint declaration between Bangladesh and India during PM Narendra Modi's visit to Bangladesh

Shreya Ghoshal received the warmest of welcomes from her Bangladeshi fans, as she performed live in Dhaka after five long years on Friday. Bay Entertainment arranged the concert, Shreya Ghoshal Live in Dhaka, at Naboratri Hall of Bashundhara International Convention City.

Bangladesh and India are set to redraw their maps through swapping territories and people between them amid a wind of change blowing in their politics, 41 years after the 1974 Indira Gandhi-Sheikh Mujibur Rahman historic pact.

Muhith in his budget wants good growth with a clear idea of what needs to be done, only that the specific actions are missing once again.

After keeping it unchanged for two consecutive years, the government has planned to raise the minimum tax-free income threshold to Tk 2,50,000 for the new fiscal year.

The government has set an ambitious target of setting up 100 economic zones in the next 15 years, says the finance minister in his budget speech today.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith proposes increasing the ceiling of tax-free income to Tk 2.50 lakh from Tk 2.20 lakh.

As the India series in 2004 progressed, Bangladesh's chances of doing something special gradually improved after Mohammad Ashraful's breathtaking 158 in the second Test.

Finance Minister Muhith proposes imposing tax on bonus and festival allowances of civil servants besides their salary in the 2015-16 budget.

A traditional Bangladeshi family faces hard times when the only earner, Waqar, discovers that he has a severe case of tuberculosis.

Banker Rafiqul Islam saw off his wife at Shahjalal International Airport and was still on his way back home to Dhanmondi when he got the call from Kolkata. I have arrived safely, his wife said. But Rafiqul was nowhere near his home.