Muhammad bin Alim, a potential asset and a valuable life to the country and his family, would have turned 15 yesterday had he not ended his life on September 15 last year.

Today is the 44th martyrdom anniversary of Captain RAM Khairul Bashar.

A study by Brac University's School of Law has found that between 2009 and 2014, the overall conviction rate under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act 2000 in three district tribunals, including one in Dhaka, was only 0.86 percent.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Malaysia are three of the largest destinations for Bangladeshi expatriate workers.

Dhaka will call for comprehensive efforts to permanently resolve the problems of Rohingyas in today's special regional meeting hosted by Thailand in the wake of escalating Southeast Asian migrant crisis.

A two-year joint research carried out by the World Food Programme and the International Food Policy Research Institute has come up with some interesting findings on how to improve the benefits of safety net programmes (SSNPs) being run in the country.

IT is disquieting to note that during a clash between two factions of Jahangirnagar University (JU) unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) three activists got injured and three journalists were assaulted.

Dr AS Masihur Rahman died in his Gulshan residence of the capital on Friday. He was 96.

Rights organisations have been protesting the insensitivity and sometimes discrimination shown by law enforcers when dealing with cases of sexual assault and rape.

The High Court has ordered a judicial probe against the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) and the executive magistrate of Bhandaria of Pirojpur for their humiliating treatment of a teacher.

Abdul Matin, former chairman of Char Sirta union parishad in Mymensingh Sadar, died due to old-age complications at a Dhaka hospital on Sunday noon. He was 62.

A Bangladeshi United Nations peacekeeper was killed and another sustained bullet injuries as armed men opened fire on a UN vehicle in Africa's Mali early yesterday.

Sheikh Mohammad Farid, a Liberation War organiser and Thakurgaon Nagorik Committee president, died due to old-age complications at his Hazipara residence in Thakurgaon municipality yesterday. He was 82.

The High Court directs the daily Prothom Alo to give Tk 1 lakh to a female worker of Apex Footwear Limited within a month for publishing a wrong report on her abortion.

WE find the prime minister's remarks on taking steps against illegal migrants along with human traffickers inhumane and insensitive.

A number of people are being killed and maimed almost every day in road accidents both in the cities as well as in the highways across Bangladesh.

FINANCE Minister AMA Muhith underlined an issue of considerable import at a pre-budget discussion with the Economic Reporters' Forum (ERF) on Saturday.

Mass graves and suspected human-trafficking detention camps have been discovered by Malaysian police in towns and villages bordering Thailand, the country's home minister said yesterday.

ONE wonders what power is behind the Malaysian firm IRIS that has allowed it to get away with all sorts of failings in meeting its part of the contract in issuing machine readable passports to our expatriate workers.

THERE are no words to describe our outrage at the horrific news that a 21-year-old indigenous woman has been gang-raped on the