An official of Noakhali Palli Bidyut Samity (PBS) died of heatstroke at Mymensingh PBS-1 office in Muktagachha upazila yesterday.

India launches ‘Eid Visa Camp’, the first of its kind, to ease Bangladeshi national’s travel to the country during the Eid holidays.

In a welcome move, the mobile court jailed and fined 14 people for illegally lifting sand near the Bangabandhu Bridge in Bhuapur upazila of Tangail.

The government's focus on mega projects, skills development and job creation are commendable.

Terrorist attacks and the total number of deaths increased in Bangladesh in 2015, according to the US State Department.

We are aghast by reports that at least 50 nurses were injured when the police charged batons and used water cannons on protestors who had attempted to lay siege on the health minister's residence in the capital.

The finance minister has presented the 45th annual budget of Tk3.4 trillion that is 29 per cent bigger than the last fiscal.

The local administration stopped brick lifting by men of a defeated union parishad (UP) chairman candidate from a village road in Sadar

Eminent journalist Syed Fahim Munaim, who died yesterday, will be buried at Banani graveyard in the capital tomorrow.

Internet use through WiFi and Wimax will get some boost as the finance minister proposes to reduce import duty on these products.

We are so engrossed in the exponential development figures that we hardly care about those people who are toiling in enslaved conditions to fuel the growth engine.

Despite scoring the same stable “BB-” in the long-term and “B” short-term sovereign credit ratings by S&P, a US-based financial services company for the last six years, the economy has witnessed steady growth with little fluctuation.

Facebook and Twitter are stirred with the tributes, obituaries and lamentations since morning after the news of the untimely demise of Syed Fahim Munaim spreaded.

High Court declares illegal the rules that allow lawmakers to hold the chairman posts in governing bodies of non-government schools and colleges.

It is hardly surprising that a premier think tank in the country has once again calculated that the government in all probability will miss its tax collection target.

We are shocked at a report in this daily yesterday marking 'World No Tobacco Day', that has revealed that as many as 3000 children aged between seven and 15 work in bidi factories in Lalmonirhat.

Following a protracted campaign by Bogra civil society activists to preserve the town's iconic Nawab palace a signboard from the

Over 15 lakh people in Bangladesh are living like slaves with nearly half the population vulnerable to be exposed to it, a report of Australia-based Walk Free Foundation says.

It is a trend that appears to be predictable but devoid of all logic – the spiraling of prices of essentials just before Ramadan.

It is indeed unsettling to note that when it comes to earthquake of a high magnitude, our disaster management preparedness is almost nonexistent.