A news report in this paper has caught our attention. An open letter signed by 38 Bangladeshi children stuck in a safe-home in West Bengal asking the prime minister for safe conduct home is both touching and alarming at the same time.

The Prime Minister's call for people's support in fighting militancy and extremism effectively is fitting and timely.

Cultivation of local varieties of fruits on commercial basis is gaining popularity among farmers and general people at many places in five northern districts of Rangpur region in recent years, bringing a change in the agriculture pattern in the area.

Two years ago Jo Milne became an internet sensation when footage of her hearing for the first time appeared on YouTube. Since then she has rekindled a long-lost friendship, enlisted the support of 1970s pop group The Osmonds and travelled to Bangladesh to help hundreds of deaf children.

Residents of the former enclaves in Panchagarh and Thakurgaon celebrated the first anniversary of the historic exchange of adversely

The two children and wife of slain farmer Shafiqul Islam were seen crying at their home at Shalmara village of Bhelabari union under

It's not easy being a nomad in the 21st century. It's not only traditional matters like moving residences, selling traditional remedies and

A month into the Gulshan tragedy, and we can say that some progress has been made but much remains to be done.

The recent incidents of BCL infighting in various educational institutions have created a worrying situation where academic activities have been seriously hindered and safety and security of general students are under threat.

Bangladesh government has brought about a major change to the law concerned aiming to put an end to the land dispute problems at Chittagong Hill Tracts.

In yet another cowardly attack in two weeks, two bauls were assaulted and humiliated and their abode set to fire in a remote village in Chuadanga.

Fear, along with the government decision to closedown so called illegal establishments in Gulshan area as a reaction to the unfortunate killings in Holey Artisan has helped create the eerie character that Gulshan has taken on today.

Police are yet to arrest any of the culprits involved in assaulting bauls and burning down their akhra at Gobindpur village in Damurhuda

In Mymensingh's Rasulpur Forest the monsoon months of Ashar and Shraban were once a time to ramble; on random expeditions in

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmud says people do not want to believe that his organisation works against corruption.

The refusal of the Chittagong City Corporation to hand over apartments to 161 poor families is patently unethical. In 2013, under a laudable project initiated by the then-mayor, the CCC started the construction of a seven-storey building by evicting 33 families living in

Eleven years have passed and we are still waiting for the conclusion of the first major case of murder in suicide bombing which was directed at the Chittagong Court building premises that took two lives in 2005.

Just four days of declaring Kaunia upazila in Rangpur free from child marriage a 15-year-old girl becomes victim of early marriage on

Speakers at programmes in Mymensingh and Sylhet on Friday recalled the rare sacrifice of Faraaz Ayaaz Hossain, the 20-year-old youth

Two girls, aged 7 and 8, were raped in a government-run orphanage in Kushtia this week. Sadly, cases such as this are not new or infrequent.