Largest ever limestone quarry, spanning over 50 sq km area, has been found in Naogaon, officials say. Commercial production to start in two years.

River transport workers go on an indefinite strike across the country to press home their 15-point demand.

Bangladesh government should urgently remove legal and practical obstacles to unionization in garment industries, Human Rights Watch says.

We are concerned by the report in this daily that the only piece of land meant for throwing garbage in Dinajpur municipality...

A farmer died of heatstroke in Akkelpur upazila of Joypurhat district yesterday. The deceased is Robiul Islam, 38, son of Akamuddin of

Bangladesh has finally taken the decision to get connected to the Trans-Asian railway, one of the most comprehensive networks of rail lines that connect Europe with Asia.

Bangladesh has moved two notches up to 144th position among 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index-2016 prepared by Reporters Sans Frontières. But the Paris-based advocacy group voices serious concern over the state of freedom of expression in Bangladesh.

The ongoing heat wave which is sweeping across the country shall continue for at least three or four more days, the Met office says.

A draft of the Broadcast Act-2016m, which proposes three-month jail as highest punishment and Tk 5 lakh fine or both for violation of the rules, has been posted on website for public opinions.

We join the Malaysian industry's demand that the freeze on foreign labour recruitment initiated by that country's government is putting

The opening of two new public toilets by the Dhaka North City Corporation is certainly something to celebrate in a city that is notorious

Six people, including two schoolgirls, were killed by lightning in Habiganj, Sylhet and Panchagarh districts yesterday and on Monday

Dinajpur town's solid waste has nowhere to go. The site of municipality's only designated waste dump was grabbed in December last

The disconnection, which will be temporary, will accompany a warning that will give subscribers another chance to re-register within a specific period of time. But after that, defaulters will lose their number.

Visiting the morgue for the autopsy report of a loved one is traumatic as it is, extorting the relatives of the dead for such services is just

The Information Minister's response to the US 2015 Country report that cites, among other things, the rise in extrajudicial killings and the

An investigative report of this newspaper has come up with disturbing facts that land belonging to state-owned schools has been forcibly grabbed...

Three years into the Rana Plaza collapse, as many as 58.4 percent of Rana Plaza survivors are still suffering from mental illnesses...

About a quarter patients die within one hour of a heart attack, which can be prevented by the immediate administering of some simple

Two horrible accidents within the same week involving faulty gas cylinders in vehicles should be a wakeup call to CNG vehicle users and