A Bangladeshi shipyard supervisor, Bikas Nath, has won the top prize in the annual poetry contest for foreign workers held in Singapore.

The use of below par textbooks in our educational system has given rise to a most disturbing trend.

It is unfortunate that after long 45 years of Independence, Bangladeshi women are still facing various forms of gender discrimination and gender-based violence in their everyday life.

It is a matter of grave concern that the evacuation of the last opposition-held areas of the Syrian city of Aleppo was suspended only a day after it had started, leaving thousands of Syrians trapped and uncertain of their fate.

In the latest statement by the United Nations, the world body has castigated the Myanmar government, particularly its leader Suu Kyi for hiding behind subterfuge and helping perpetuate the regime of persecution on the Rohingya minority.

Freedom fighters of Rajapur upazila of the district had started building a memorial on a badhyabhumi (killing ground)

It was a unique occasion as 300 people who recovered from addiction took part in a human chain on Kuakata beach

Hard-pressed elderly farmer Pabitra Das of Borodal village in Kulaura upazila under the district has got a power tiller,

The Committee to Protect Journalists' (CPJ) report that reveals that more journalists have been jailed this year by government all over the world in nearly three decades, is certainly ominous news for press freedom and what media represents, which is the voice of the people.

It is baffling how, despite a longstanding demand for better service and transparency, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority continues to be defined by corruption and irregularities.

As we step into the 45th year of independence, it is a time to pay homage to the three million of known and unknown heroes of the

We welcome the High Court directive to the chief judicial magistrate in Gaibandha, to find out through inquiry whether any policemen

A bus had overturned in Ramu upazilla on the Cox's Bazaar-Chittagong highway on December 13 that killed four people and injuring another three.

The consensus to have a global treaty for the better protection of migrants, reached by 130 countries, is a welcome development.

In Patuakhali the days of having a 'watermelon season' may be numbered.

People of Thakurgaon and Panchagarh are experiencing the first cold wave of the season, which is causing untold sufferings to the poor.

The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, marking the birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (pbuh), is observed in the country with due religious solemnity.

We express our outrage and grief at the news of 16-year-old Afroza Khanom of Satkhira who took her own life because she could not bear the humiliation she had been subjected to by a village arbitration.

Today we solemnly recall the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him), marking the day he was sent to us, an occasion that also coincides with his demise from the temporal world. The light of truth and the criterion between right and wrong that the Almighty had sent down to Mankind through him 1400 years ago is more relevant than ever before.

Golahat mass grave near Saidpur railway station in the district bearing the horrifying memory of the massacre of 437 Marwaris by