The government today appointed five acting secretaries to different ministries and divisions to fill the vacant positions.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named as one of the world's top 100 global thinkers by Foreign Policy, a Washington-based prestigious magazine of global politics, economics and ideas.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members recover the body of a young man on no-man’s land along with Sylhet border.

Rafida Ahmed Banya, the widow of Bangladeshi-American blogger Avijit Roy, urges the international community to come forward to help save the voices of Bangladeshi journalists, writers, bloggers, and publishers and help them maintain a healthy secular society.

A four-year-old boy dies after a flag stand collapsed on him at Khagrachhari General Hospital this morning.

Two alleged criminals are killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Chapainawabganj and Jessore.

A court here yesterday sentenced five people to life imprisonment for killing a man in Saidpur upazila in 2009.

People of different villages of Bhuapur and Gopalpur upazilas joined a long march yesterday, demanding repair of the Tangail-Tarakandi

Pakistan not only lied by denying its atrocities in Bangladesh in 1971, it deliberately twisted facts to deny the genocide it committed on the Bangali people during the nine-month Liberation War.

A Narayanganj court yesterday sentenced two men to life imprisonment for kidnapping and raping a garment worker in

A woman sustained burn injuries in an acid attack allegedly by her husband in Nesarabad upazila of the district early yesterday.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested an alleged arms trader with two pistols, four magazines and 14 bullets in Kanthalpara

Facebook authority will visit Bangladesh on December 6 to discuss a proposal about signing a deal with the government to combat cybercrimes in the country.

A mobile court of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has sent 24 persons to jail on different terms in Khilgaon area of the capital, a DMP press release says.

The High Court observes that the culprits behind Narayanganj seven-murder may be benefited if the trial proceedings of the case are delayed for a long period.

Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique urges the government to sever all diplomatic ties with Pakistan for interfering in Bangladesh’s domestic affairs like war crimes trial.

A bullet-hit victim of the Bogra Shia mosque attack is being shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for better treatment.

A Rangpur court today jailed seven activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, for 20 years for possessing crude bombs.

A schoolboy dies after falling down from a mini-truck when the vehicle came under the attack of UPDF activists during a road blockade in Khagrachhari Sadar.

Shortages of fuel, food, medicines and vaccines are putting more than three million infants at risk of death or disease as winter begins in Nepal, the UN children's fund (Unicef) has warned.