Violence against women could be reduced a lot if they are given due respect at home and in the society, said speakers at a views

Frequent power failure and load shedding in the district have affected normal life and smooth irrigation for the last couple of weeks.

We are disappointed to see that the dredging project of the Karnaphuli River, a lifeline for Chittagong city and the port, has been stalled for more than three years.

The Turkish envoy to Dhaka has been called home by the Turkish government for consultations and in one sense, this is normal diplomatic practice.

Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi says his government is not ruling out the possibility that its top-ranked officers are involved in the human trafficking and passport forgery syndicate.

The true potential of the economy is not being realised because the infrastructure of the country remains inadequate in terms of skilled manpower...

We are happy to see that the results of this year's secondary school certificate (SSC) exams have surpassed that of last year's, with a pass rate of 88.7 percent.

Representatives of the European Union (EU) and the UNDP, together with the Local Government Division (LGD) Secretary, visited Rangpur division recently to kick-off the second phase of the Village Courts (VC) project, said a joint press release issued by EU and UNDP.

We are dismayed to see a continuous increase of prices of onions, gram, lentils and other essential food items.

Nizami was the highest ranking Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader to be hanged for crimes against humanity in 1971. With his execution, the stigma that we had been carrying for the last 45 years has been removed.

Executed Jamaat ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami is buried at his village home in Santhia upazila in Pabna. Relatives and a few locals attended his namaz-e-janaza held at a madrasa at Monmothpur before he was buried around 7:15am.

The barbaric killing of 12-year-old Alauddin, a worker at a bakery in Lakshmipur, Noakhali, allegedly at the hands of his employer and co-workers, leaves us feeling helpless and angry.

According to a report published in a leading Bangla daily, four State-owned banks (SoBs) including Sonali, Agrani, Janata and Rupali have piled up bad loans to the tune of Tk 5,867 crore.

Dhaka Central Jail authorities have been given the order to execute death row war criminal Motiur Rahman Nizami as he did not seek presidential mercy, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said.

Family of Motiur Rahman Nizami has met the death row war criminal at Dhaka Central Jail. After around one-and-half hours of meeting, they left without talking to the meida.

Reports of Bangladeshi migrant workers falling victim to abuse, mistreatment, fraud and other maltreatment in the hands of their foreign employers are not new.

The announcement by the Prime Minister that she wants to put an end to land disputes in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) gives a glimmer of hope that the most sensitive component of the CHT Peace Accord may be resolved under the PM's leadership.

The motive behind the horrid murder of Shahidullah, a 'Pir' in Rajshahi, is unknown but the way unidentified assailants killed him bears the hallmark of extremists who have been behind the recent killings of several others, both Muslim and non-Muslim.

This is the second time that the government of Pakistan has issued statements related to the trial of war criminals of 1971.

A report by this paper on May 7 carried the picture of a young man tied to the front bumper of a truck on the Natore-Bogra higway. The