Hundreds of locals including ethnic minority people yesterday formed a human chain along DB Road in Gaibandha municipality

Two Sunderbans-based robber gangs, which had been robbing fishermen and honey collectors and kidnapping them for ransom

The phenomenon of extremism that is on the rise in the country requires a coordinated effort of all sections of society to see an end of this peril. And in the aftermath of the attack on Holey Artisan Bakery and the subsequent attack in Kishoreganj, all concerned must come together to fight this scourge in a manner coordinated by one central authority.

Ataul Karim Khokon, bureau chief of Dainik Jugantor, and Mir Golam Mustafa, staff reporter of The Daily Samakal, were elected president

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has just released a 68-page report titled “I was sold” that outlines the near-slavery conditions for migrant domestic workers in Oman.

We condemn this horrifying and utterly mindless act of terror that has been unleashed on the citizens of France...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina strongly denounces the terrorist attack on a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in Nice, France that left 84 people dead and many injured.

A total of 200 people were killed and 754 others injured in accidents on roads, waterways and railways across the country during the Eid holiday, Bangladesh Passengers' Welfare Association says.

Every school child learns how trees get their nutrients from the soil and send it to the leaves through the bark in order to make their food.

The autopsies of the victims of the Gulshan café attack reveal the ineffable cruelty with which the assailants killed the unfortunate people.

The loss of valuable human lives in road crashes is not only tragic but also unacceptable. In this column we have written umpteen times on the alarming number of road accidents, particularly on highways, in the country. Still there is no significant improvement in this regard. Recently, eight people, including a five-year old girl, were killed and 35 others injured in road crashes in four separate incidents in one single day.

A new study using ground and satellite GPS monitors have concluded that the north-eastern corner of the Indian subcontinent encompassing Bangladesh, eastern India and parts of Myanmar is at risk of a major earthquake, and the effect when it occurs would be on a massive scale (8.2 to 9 on the Richter scale). The study conducted at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University should be taken seriously, particularly by Bangladesh which has several issues going against it in the event of a major quake.

Felling of matured trees on the Teesta irrigational canal embankments continues unabated in Jaldhaka and Dimla upazilas of the district, but the authorities concerned seem helpless to stop this illegal practice.

Two people are shot when police and alleged illegal arms dealers were exchanging fire in Kolaroa upazila of Satkhira.

The action of the police with regard to the two Gulshan café survivors has left us flabbergasted. The police claim that they have been released after questioning but the two families have no knowledge of their whereabouts.

We welcome the moves by both north and south city corporations in revitalising the open public spaces like parks by undertaking extensive plantation of trees and flower plants.

A meeting of the District Terrorism and Destruction Prevention Committee (Zila Santrash O Nashakata Protirodh

What most of the world had believed to be true about the rationale of the Iraq invasion, the Chilcot report has confirmed in black and white.

The most significant issue that has occupied the minds of the people in this country in the aftermath of the gruesome killings of twenty Bangladeshi...

Every Eid, people unfortunate enough to take ill and get admitted to one of the major public hospitals is faced with the same spectacle.