The UN has condemned the refusal of South-East Asian countries to rescue thousands of migrants adrift at sea.

Police yesterday arrested the man, who allegedly killed his three minor daughters at Chowdhurypara village of Badarkhali in Cox's Bazar on Friday.

Myanmar acknowledges international "concerns" about waves of boatpeople, many of whom are fleeing from persecution, but denied it is solely to blame as thousands languish in dire straits at sea.

Seven Bangladeshi nationals were rescued yesterday off the Myanmar coast after they were thrown from a fishing trawler packed with migrants heading to Malaysia, a coast guard officer said.

The international community must mount pressure on Myanmar so that it recognises Rohingyas as citizens, say immigration experts

Following a three-year legal battle, former Dhaka University student Abdul Kadar has finally got justice as a Dhaka court yesterday punished a police official for torturing him in custody in 2011.

Bangladesh's opportunity to seize the benefits of 'demographic dividend' will last for the next 16 years as there will be an acceleration in numbers of elderly people (60 years and above) after 2031.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has cleared the vice-chairman of Bangladesh Milk Producers’ Co-operative Union Limited, popularly known as Milk Vita, and six others of graft charges.

Malaysia says its foreign minister would meet his Indonesian and Thai counterparts to discuss the influx of boatpeople to Southeast Asia as international pressure grew for a regional solution.

A Dhaka court sentences Helal Uddin, a former officer-in-charge of Khilgaon Police Station, to three years’ imprisonment for torturing Dhaka University student Abdul Kadar and implicating him in three false cases three years back.

Police will crack down unregistered motorbikes from June 3, Inspector General of Police Shahidul Haque say on Sunday.

Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested four people in connection with the murder of the security guard of Al-Arafah Islami Bank

Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested four people in connection with the murder of the security guard of Al-Arafah Islami Bank

The principal of a madrasa in Parbatipur upazila of the district on Thursday forcibly realised Tk 1,000 from each of 13 students from

It's shocking to learn that an estimated 6,000 people from Bangladesh and Myanmar are fighting for survival in the Andaman Sea and

Snatched by people traffickers in his native Bangladesh and forced onto a migrant boat, 14-year-old Absaruddin endured a weeks-

An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 others to death for their role

The Thai government yesterday confirmed its readiness to work with the international community in solving the problem relating to boat people from Myanmar and Bangladesh.

The United States has urged the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand to refrain from pushbacks of new boats with

Mohammadpur Preparatory School closed till May 25 and its vice principal discharged in face of protests over sexual harassment of a minor student.