The finance ministry will scale down its plan to lay out a budget upwards of Tk 300,000 crore for fiscal 2015-16, as it has failed to find viable sources to fund such a big outlay.

Bangladesh Cricket Board president Nazmul Hassan Papon and chief selector Faruque Ahmed both hinted that Test skipper Mushfiqur Rahim might not keep during the one-off Test against India due to begin from June 10 in Fatullah.

AFP Jakarta office confirms student washed away in Bay last year and the youth found in Indonesia are not same.

A total of 87.04pc students pass SSC, equivalent exams, which is 4.30pc points lower than that of last year.

We are all familiar with the mathematical formulation that 0+0+0= 0. Well, not so, says Prof Yunus.

“He is our son, we are sure about it,” these are the words of a man, whose university going son went missing during an outing in St Martin of Cox’s Bazar a year back.

When the Myanmar navy seized a boat used by people smugglers last week, it announced that the 200 people found aboard were mostly Bangladeshis seeking better economic prospects in Southeast Asia.

They are keen on visiting European countries, the United States, Australia and Canada but not Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Malaysia, where they are needed the most to ensure new passports for all expatriates.

It is a rare sense of relief to note that the Rab has been able to arrest two men in connection with the gang-rape of a young Garo woman a few days ago.

Preity Zinta entered Bollywood with “Dil Se” (translating “From the Heart”) in 1998, and never really left the hearts of fans ever since. Despite the rapidly-declining frequency of her big-screen releases over the last few years, she is still the darling of Bollywood, even when she's on the sideline of the cricket field with her Indian Premier League franchise.

The AL MP from Fenchuganj, Sylhet, Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury, in a speech on May 9, in his constituency, termed Professor Zafar Iqbal as “One hundred thousand percent idiot”.

Great news for Boyka fans! Boyka: Undisputed 4 starts shooting in June 2015 with Scott Adkins set to return as Yuri Boyka and Isaac Florentine ready to direct once again.

With twelve towers, 10,000 rooms, 70 restaurants, plus helipads and a full-size convention center, Abraj Kudai in Mecca is set to become the largest hotel in the world when it opens in 2017.

An indigenous woman has been gang-raped allegedly by five miscreants inside a microbus in Dhaka city.

The US yesterday said it was willing to take in Rohingya refugees.

Convicted Bollywood star Salman Khan is to appear at a Dubai awards show, according to the organiser, despite awaiting court permission to travel.

The Malaysian Indian Muslim Restaurant Owners Association (Presma) offers to hire the Rohingya and Bangladeshi boat migrants who are temporarily allowed to land in Malaysia.

It is important to escape from this "on-off" pattern and either go completely “on” or completely “off” rather than remaining in a limbo.

Rubel Hossain must be a relieved man. The sexual allegations that were brought against him were finally put to rest by a Dhaka court yesterday and he was discharged.

It is hard to believe that a group of writers are in mortal danger in the country now just for expressing their opinions. But that’s the truth.