It is one of the greatest ironies that the two major parties of the country, both of which are headed by women, should be so apathetic...

According to the report titled “Illegal Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2004-2013” published by Global Financial Integrity...

After their surrender, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers had to take an arduous journey to prisoners of war camp in India. They were first taken to Narayanganj and later to Khulna to be transported to West Bengal later by train.

We are astounded at the ostentatious reception arranged for the home minister at Feni on his way to Khagrachari.

Last year, we watched with horror the fate of four-year-old Jihad who had fallen down an unguarded borehole and the saga that unfolded in the botched attempt by the fire brigade to rescue him.

Today is the 44th death anniversary of martyred journalist Serajuddin Hossain.

Today is the ninth death anniversary of ABM Fazle Rashid Chowdhury Hiru, a politician, businessman and lawyer, says a press release.

We are constrained that the irresponsible comments coming out of some GOP presidential hopefuls have only helped to spawn Islamophobia in the USA...

The High Court (HC) ordered the government to implement 28 guidelines by a seven-member expert committee formed under a court order...

'“In the name of God and a united Pakistan,” Dacca is today a crushed and frightened city.' These are the immortal lines from Simon Dring's report that defined the Pakistan army's terrible vengeance on the unarmed Bangalis in East Pakistan in March 1971.

Freedom fighter Joardar Abdur Razzak, a lawyer and social activist, died at his residence in Magura on Sunday. He was buried at

UK International Development Minister Baroness Verma arrived in Dhaka yesterday on a three-day visit to discuss

Doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) have declared dead the five-year-old boy following his rescue from the Buriganga River in the old part of Dhaka this evening.

We present this part of our rebuttal of Pakistan's insolence with descriptions of Pakistani atrocities by the US Consul General Archer K Blood in his diplomatic cables to Washington in those fateful days in 1971. Consul General Blood vividly described the Pakistan army's genocidal attack on Dhaka city on March 25-26 in his cables.

Majority of the mayor aspirants in the upcoming municipality polls are businessmen and over half of them have educational qualifications of HSC or below.

They talk about women empowerment quite often, but the two major political parties picked only a few women for mayoral posts.

The picture of a footpath in Farmgate published in our paper yesterday spoke a thousand words and aptly describes the woes of the pedestrians in the streets of Dhaka.

We are dismayed by reports of a blatant onslaught on Jafflong's pristine environment that has always attracted tourists and nature lovers.

Rezaul Karim Panna, former Awami League president of Belgium unit, died at a hospital in Brussels on Thursday. He was 58.

Organised with the aim to engage young people as change agents in ending violence against women and girls and raise university students' awareness on gender issues, yearlong gender seminars and documentary screenings by USAID and US-based media company Independent Television Services (ITVS) ended yesterday.