Once their forefathers had ruled a fairly large territory; once they had a royal throne. But all those glories have faded into a distant past.

The Election Commissioner has sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's intervention to stop the electoral code of conduct violation by ruling Awami League MPs and leaders and thus Election Commissioner Shah Nawaz has made it apparent that the EC is helpless and unable to control the situation.

Although the municipality polls are only eight days away, many returning officers are falling behind with the probes into alleged violations of electoral laws by the ruling Awami League men.

Different stakeholders have hailed a government policy to protect the rights of domestic workers, but working parents fear it may create a shortage of domestic helps causing a crisis for them.

With the Awami League men continuing to breach the polls code, an election commissioner yesterday sought the prime minister's intervention to check this.

Many raised their eyebrows, some thought he was out of his mind when they came across Mohammad Elias' new business idea some 20

All four mayoral candidates in Chandanaish municipality of Chittagong have been campaigning long hours from early morning to

Seventy years ago the world was a very different place. The Second World War had just ended. Tensions ran high

Imagine that you are at work, and right through your window you see the sun setting far away, shedding orange light on the world's third highest mountain, Kangchenjunga.

Law enforcers have so far failed to arrest any of the masterminds behind the trafficking of over 3,000 Bangladeshis through the Bay of Bengal this year. They have been carrying out drives to track down human traffickers and their ring leaders since the trafficking victims were rescued mostly from Thailand and Malaysia in May and June. In the last six months, law enforcers could only arrest around 400 alleged middlemen and local agents of human-trafficking networks, not any of the ring leaders.

These lines are from a Mother's Day poem, “How I got Here”, composed by 12-year-old Onil Mark Mowling in May 1984 for his class to share his life story.

As the municipality election is only around two weeks away, all four mayoral candidates in Patiya municipality of Chittagong are busy campaigning from early morning to midnight.

In her 72 statements on three national days, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia never mentioned the words Pakistani occupation army, Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams, who committed barbaric atrocities during the war.

For someone who all his life has believed and preached that Ahimsa Paramo Dharma or non-violence is the ultimate dharma, it is not easy to take up arms and go to war.

Public servants will be entitled to two automatic grade raises during their service as an alternative to the existing selection grade and time scale.

Less than two weeks before Bangladesh's Independence, the then US President Richard Nixon had called Henry A Kissinger twice on December 4, 1971, asking if warplanes had been sent to Pakistan.

This is the day our oppressors took revenge on us for winning our inevitable freedom. This is the day they came with covered faces, bayonets and shot guns,

Winter makes every cup of tea worth holding on the cusp of both hands; where every taste is heightened and every sensation is glorified. But this adored season is not without it's flaws. Winter, you are not so perfect after all, are you?

It is really not a surprise that Pakistan would make a statement which pretty much echoes what the research has been revealing all along: that Pakistan justifies the war crimes; that Pakistan will not take responsibility for the harm they inflicted on an entire people in 1971.

Forty-four years since independence, must we remain a caricature of a dysfunctional, postcolonial state where law enforcers...