This is the first visit by an American president to Cuba in 88 years.

It is heartening news that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare will distribute smart health cards among 30,000 poor families of four upazilas.

Two presiding officers are shot in Noakhali as reports of gunfire came from voting centres in Patuakhali and Satkhira during the first phase of union parishad elections.

The just concluded 'National Indigenous Women Conference 2016' has brought to the fore the extent to which women from ethnic

The objectives for which the Dhaka-Narayanganj-Demra dam project was taken up in the 1960s have been, to a large extent, nullified by

DESPITE the plea of environmentalists, political parties, cultural groups and the recommendations of a United Nations team and a

The just concluded Council of the BNP offered some interesting ideas but there were disappointments too. The suggestions offered by Khaleda Zia regarding the curtailment of the prime minister's power and bicameral legislature have attracted our attention.

The Supreme Court seriously criticises two ministers for their comments about Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha in relation to the hearing of an appeal of war crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali.

WE are appalled by the incident of gas explosion that ripped through a 6-storey building in Banani residential area on March 18, which is

ACCORDING to our reports there has been no progress in finding IT expert Tanveer Hassan Zoha who has been missing for more than

A team of surgeons remove warts from the left hand of “Tree Man” Abul Bajandar in a two hour long surgery at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).

The BNP is holding its sixth triennial council after a long gap of seven years. It is a party of a fairly long standing but over the years has

Driving on the wrong side of the road has become the norm in Dhaka these days as highlighted by the front page photos published in this

Two Bangladeshi Brac officials working in Afghanistan are abducted by unidentified miscreants from Kunduz city.

A construction worker working at the Moghbazar-Malibagh flyover without minimum safety gear like a hard hat died on March 16 when

MYANMAR, ruled by the military since 1962, seems to be moving towards a full-fledged democracy with its parliament electing Htin

An “IT expert”, who talked to different media as a cyber security specialist after the recent heist from Bangladesh Bank account, has been missing since Wednesday night, family claims.

Although Bangladesh has achieved laudable success in reducing maternal mortality, we are still far from the MDG target.

The former Bangladesh Bank (BB) governor must be lauded for taking the moral responsibility for the bank's financial mishap that led to a US$101 million heist from BB account at the New York Fed.

Three people, including the president of Ward No 7 unit of Jubo League under Kuakata municipality, were injured in a clash between the