The government slapped a levy of 1 percent surcharge on the sale of mobile phones and another 1 percent surcharge on the use of mobile phones last year.

Child marriage – despite the caveat in the new amendment of the law – remains illegal in the country. Last Friday, as eight under-age girls were about to be married off in Dinajpur, locals informed the local administration.

It took a sensational double-rape in a posh boutique hotel to wake Rajuk up from its slumber that Raintree hotel was operating, and that too illegally, in a residential area.

It is with deep sadness that we bid farewell to former foreign secretary and ambassador Faruq Ahmed Choudhury who breathed his last in the early hours yesterday.

The jewellery business in Bangladesh has reportedly been thriving despite there being no import of gold into the country through legal

The BNP has come out with a document that it calls Vision 2030. It is perhaps the first time that a major political party has revealed a...

Finance Minister AMA Muhith last week disclosed that the government intends to utilise about USD 7.55 billion of foreign aid in fiscal 2017-18.

When the Vested Property Return (Amendment) Act was passed in 2011 it came as a relief for the minority community of the county.

We are utterly dumbfounded to know from a report in this daily, that as many as 63 jails across the country have no doctors at all to treat

The security forces deserve credit for detecting and neutralising militants, particularly over the last one year after the Holey Artisan encounter.

How does medicine and medical equipment meant to be supplied to patients according to their needs end up in a pond?

Alaudable provision of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2000 makes it mandatory for lower courts which are dealing with cases under the law to dispose with them within 180 days of framing charges.

Intimidation through violence to grab the land of the helpless is an age-old practice in our country where those with influence and power

Toxic gas from brick kilns in Badalgachhi and Manda upazilas of Naogaon has damaged Irri-Boro paddy on 200 acres of land along with

The PM's announcement of along-term and sustainable 'Employment Injury Scheme' to ensure better benefits and support for workers is

All the smoke and stench diffused from burning garbage on the side of the road is not only undesirable, but is harmful to public health. Why then is garbage being disposed like this? Aren't the authorities at all concerned about the consequences of this on public health?

We are dumbfounded by the Mirpur police bringing a case to the court where an 11-month old baby Rubel, and Arifur Rahman who had been dead for 3 years at the time of occurrence, have been charge-sheeted for vandalism!

Within just a week, prices of staples, including rice, sugar, onions, egg plant and other vegetables have increased by Tk. 5 to 15 per kg.

Allegations have arisen against the chairmen and their relatives in Sunamganj district's Rajanagor and Rofinagar union that they are depriving the affected farmers of rice allocated to them under the Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme.

We are relieved at the result of the French elections with pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron winning the battle with the far right leader Marine Le Pen who sent chills across Europe and the rest of the world with her anti-immigration, racist rhetoric.