Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon will hold a dialogue with the city dwellers soon, to listen about their problems, the newly elected mayor say after joining office.

The High Court yesterday granted bail to BNP leaders Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury and Gayeshwar Chandra Roy in three cases for

Every year 2.5 million people fall victims to the clutches of human trafficking, 70% of which are female.

A teenage boy, who was injured by one of his playmates during a cricket match in Parbatipur upazila on Saturday afternoon, died at Rangpur Prime Medical College Hospital early yesterday.

Aggrieved locals block the busy Dhaka-Mymensingh road for nearly an hour demanding national celebration of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s birth anniversary.

Differences have surfaced in the 14-party ruling alliance, as Awami League kept its partners in the dark on the issue of the just

Conveying disappointment both at irregularities in the city corporation elections and BNP's boycott midway through, Washington has said the focus must now be on a transparent investigation to make sure that the next election is highly improved. “We remain focused on a long-term solution that accommodates all parties and allows the Bangladeshi people to peacefully express their views,” said a top US diplomat in Dhaka on Friday.

BNP yesterday demanded that the Election Commission cancel the April 28 city corporation elections and hold those again.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday expressed her hope that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon would advise BNP to return to the

Hasina Ahmed, wife of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, yesterday again sought intervention of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to locate her

The BNP-backed candidates wanted to stay in the city elections until the end, but Awami League men by intimidating polling agents

A fire breaks out at a bicycle manufacturing factory in Sreepur upazila in Gazipur.

A herd of 16 elephant tramples a woman on a hill of Satkania upazila in Chittagong.

The High Court yesterday adjourned for six more days the hearing on two seven-year-old writ petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda

The results of Tuesday's battle of ballots in the three city corporations give some food for thoughts. Three BNP-backed mayoral aspirants jointly polled 9.24 lakh votes, around 35 percent of the total vote cast, even though they boycotted the polls midway.

All three mayor aspirants blessed by main opposition in parliament Jatiya Party could not even bag one-eighth of the votes cast in

Three ruling Awami League-backed mayors-elect yesterday once again expressed vows for the betterment of their respective city corporations and discharging their duties keeping people's interest in their mind.

Swedish Ambassador to Bangladesh Johan Frisell has regretted that BNP boycotted Tuesday's city corporation elections in Dhaka and Chittagong and urged all political actors to act within the framework of the political institutions of the country.

The ruling Awami League has nominated Maj Gen (retd) ATM Abdul Wahab as a candidate for Magura-1 by-election scheduled to be held on May 30.

An early boycott by the BNP knocked the air out of the city elections in Dhaka and Chittagong yesterday, pushing numerous voting irregularities into the background and making the results virtually irrelevant.