Lambasting the government for the sorry state of the law and order situation, Bikolpodhara Bangladesh President AQM Badruddoza

Japanese Ambassador in Bangladesh Masato Watanabe yesterday presented a Certificate of Commendation to Abu

Bangladesh should maintain all safety measures and strictly follow the building codes in constructing buildings in

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, yesterday urged

The government is providing allowances to 48 lakh widows, physically challenged and elderly people every month under its social safety net programmes aimed at containing the onslaught of poverty in the country.

Bangladesh has no place for bigotry and militancy and people here have always been non-communal and respectful to other religions, President Abdul Hamid said yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court verdict that had directed mobile phone operators to stop using the national anthem as ringtones or welcome tunes on mobile phones.

One-fourth, or 25 percent, of the total population will belong to the middle-class income category by 2025, thanks to greater access to education, finance and IT services, and private sector employment, a recent study found.

The fatal attack on a police checkpoint in Ashulia has exposed a lack of skill, training, professionalism and seriousness in the lower tier of police. It also shows a lack of discipline among them and their inability to react sharply to counter sudden attacks. Despite being armed with rifles and shotguns, five constables could not resist two armed attackers, who killed one of their colleagues on the outskirts of the capital on Wednesday morning.

The United Nations (UN) top official in Asia and the Pacific opined that achievement of the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will depend on scaling up public-private partnerships.

The government yesterday unveiled National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) to implement the Seventh Five Year Plan

Bangladesh and the Netherlands have agreed to work more closely for the implementation of Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 to make the delta safe and productive for its people.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein yesterday called on the government of Bangladesh to take urgent, concerted measures to ensure the protection of all those being threatened by extremists operating in the country.

A three-member probe committee has been formed over the attack on police at Ashulia that left a police constable dead.

Development programmes need to be planned in a way that the poor who are the actual victims of inequality get benefits of growth, said Jatiya Sangsad Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has transferred seven officers-in-charge yesterday.

Mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Sayeed Khokon yesterday said they will repair around 300 lanes and by-lanes in his areas by the end of

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid was elected as the vice president of the 38th Session of Unesco General

There are a total of 47 small ethnic groups in Bangladesh, and 27 of them were included in the government gazette, the state minister for social welfare said yesterday.

The government has taken an initiative to develop a digital flood mapping tool that will help to determine the extent of crop loss in different areas, benefiting small farmers and poor flood victims, an inception workshop was told yesterday.