It is without a doubt that the recently Cabinet-approved provision in the proposed Child Marraiage Restraint Act, that allows

A drug addict woman of Rangpur allegedly sold her 33-day-old child for Tk 5,000.

People of northern districts see sharp rise in the sale of warm clothes especially at makeshift shops in Rangpur and

At least ten bridges were built in an unplanned way in remote Thanchi upazila of Bandarban in the last five years.

In the death of Fidel Castro, we see the passing away of the last of the 20th century revolutionary and idealist.

We are bewildered by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission's announcement that it is going to develop guidelines for using communication applications like WhatsApp, Viber, WeChat and Imo, which have allowed people to make calls for free as long as there was Internet connection.

Indian border guards returned a trafficked Bangladeshi teenage girl to immigration police through Benapole check post under Benapole

An influential person is building a permanent structure occupying a canal at Dashpara in Baufal upazila headquarters of the district.

High Court summons superintendent of Chapainawabganj police, TM Mujahidul Islam, to appear before it on December 4 for explaining his comment on beating robbers to death.

We are surprised to see the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) take such a tough stand against the on-demand transport service Uber.

It is despicable when some unscrupulous, greedy men turn the plight of people into a business for making money.

Local administration has taken several necessary steps recently for running Abdur Rahman Khan Kindergarten to

Welcoming the newly introduced on-demand smart phone-based transportation service, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says Uber needs to follow some systematic procedures to continue its service in Bangladesh.

One needs only to wonder what horrific extremities of persecution and hardship can push people to flee their homelands, to try every inconceivable way to be allowed on other shores.

Space constraints, scarcity of manpower, inefficient ground handling equipment and incidents of theft are the nagging problems associated with the cargo village at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

A non-governmental organisation (NGO) will take the responsibility of running a school with 76 students at Misripara Seema Buddhist temple in Kuakata under Kalapara upazila of the district from January next year.

We can be rightly proud of the fact that Bangladesh is perhaps one of the first countries in the region to induct women in the police when the initial recruitment started in 1974.

The National Human Rights Commissioner's statement on how we are handling children accused of having committed a crime should be taken into cognisance.

The first cardinal of Bangladesh, Patrick D'Rozario, has termed Bangladesh as ‘culturally a nation of one’.

A fire that broke out at a gas lighter factory in Ashulia on November 22 that seriously injured 26 people, mostly women and children, begs some hard questions to be asked.