Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday opened two modern public toilets at Tejgaon Satrasta T&T Gate and Hazi Moron Ali Road to ensure healthcare of the city dwellers.

Ahead of the UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS), a group of United Nations human rights experts have called upon states to use the occasion to integrate their human rights obligations in the international drug control regime.

BNP standing committee member Goyeshwar Chandra Roy yesterday strongly criticised the party's high-ups for not holding any programme marking the fourth anniversary of disappearance of its leader M Ilias Ali, and for urging the government to trace him out.

Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) yesterday expressed deep concern over the arrest and remand of senior journalist Shafik Rehman.

A youth was found dead in his room in Bakalia area of Chittagong city yesterday morning.

A laundry assistant of a dormitory of Dhaka University was sentenced to two years' imprisonment yesterday and a teacher of Jagannath University was suspended for allegedly sexually harassing female students.

Despite progress of women in different socio-economic and cultural fields, violence against women is continuing to dim their success, speakers say.

The High Court drops a writ petition filed seeking judicial inquiry into the killing of Sohagi Jahan Tonu from its hearing list.

An 11-year-old girl has been allegedly raped in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area. A case has been filed in this regard and the accused cuprit arrested.

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Saturday said the government neither gave any authority to any law enforcement agency to carry

Restriction on the entry of visitors to the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport's concourse was withdrawn yesterday after it had been

The government has appointed Prof Mahabubur Rahman, principal of Government Rajendra College, Faridpur, as the new chairman of the

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed deep shock at the tragic loss of human lives and massive destructions, following the very recent

A lighter vessel carrying around 1,400 tonnes of clinkers and with 13 people on board capsized in the Bay of Bengal near Hatia coast after

Two more major projects are now coming up to feed the growing energy need by setting up the country's largest ever LPG (liquefied

Dolphins are still not safe in the marine protected swatch of no-ground areas of the Bay of Bengal and the Sundarbans' dolphin sanctuaries, according to a wildlife expert.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday expressed disappointment over “government failure” in tracing out former lawmaker and the party's organising secretary (Sylhet division), M Ilias Ali, who, along with his driver, has been missing since April 17, 2012.

Being a non-gazetted officer of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) with a monthly salary not more than Tk 20,000 has not held Tahmidul Islam back from spending at least Tk 30,000 for the upkeep of his Tk 22 lakh Toyota Allion and a chauffeur, say ACC sources.

Imagine a fatal accident- someone you know just lost his or her life. Painstakingly relatives follow the process, go to a police station for the initial scrutiny and obtain an inquest report.

The Directorate of Environment (DOE) in Chittagong sealed off a polythene manufacturing factory in Pahartali hilly area of Uttar Kattoli in