The BNP has finalised its mayoral contenders for the December 30 municipality polls that it sees as an opportunity to "fight back" from its worst ever situation since birth in 1978.

The death penalty is inhuman and inhumane. What I don't understand, however, is how the UN can call for its abolition in Bangladesh while it [the death penalty]thrives around the world – from neighboring India to the land of the free (the US).

Bangladeshi youths are proving their competences in different fields on the global stage, said a Bangladeshi professor who teaches physics at Princeton University.

Some people had a hard time in Chittagong yesterday. In need of important drugs, they hopped from one place to another but found no

A sharp fall in the water level of the river Teesta has caused the emergence of large chars in the riverbed in and around Sundarganj upazila, disrupting waterways communication and posing threat to the livelihood of local fishermen and boatmen.

There were tears and sighs all around the small house as the family members and neighbours mourned Moazzem Hossain, the muezzin of the Shia mosque in Bogra, killed in Thursday's shooting.

The minority Shia Muslims in Bogra's Shibganj upazila have never felt threatened living in the Sunni-dominated area. On the contrary, they have always lived peacefully with their Sunni brothers and sisters for decades. But now a sense of fear has gripped them following Thursday's gun attack inside a Shia mosque by unknown assailants. The shooting killed the muezzin of the mosque and injured three more, including the imam.

The forensic department of Dhaka Medical College (DMC) yesterday sent samples of the internal organs of Japanese

We have been taught contradictory versions of history that are outright lies at worst and simplistic at best, to the extent that we now either disavow the atrocities of the Liberation War or use “Muktijuddher Chetona” as a pretext for justifying repressive measures and silencing dissent.

The new electoral code of conduct makes no distinction between partisan and non-partisan municipality polls with regard to imposing restriction on electioneering by individuals enjoying government facilities.

In a recent academic paper titled “Men's Report of Domestic Violence Perpetration in Bangladesh: Correlates From a Nationally...

How would our daily lives be if Dhaka city remained under water for more than a week after a heavy rainfall?

We can react two ways at Pakistan's expression of 'deep anguish' at the hanging of two war criminals – Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed.

They paid fees and service charges to IRIS Corporation for their passports in Saudi Arabia three to four months ago but the Malaysian outsourcing company did not bother to give passports to at least 50,000 Bangladeshi expatriates.

The road leading to Dhaka Central Jail from Chawkbazar was made off limits to public around 8:00pm yesterday. All shops in nearby

They both came from political families and eventually rose to the top echelon in their parties. They adopted anti-liberation stance and

A unique fair to strengthen the relationship between mothers and daughters-in-law and to improve intergenerational

Celebrating the triumph of creative and liberal thoughts over trepidation, the three-day Dhaka Lit Fest hosted by Bangla Academy in the

A state cannot punish all criminals who committed war crimes but it should try and punish some of the top leaders to establish justice

Wouldn't any criticism against the government or any form of dissent then be reason enough to have an NGO's registration cancelled? In addition, going by Sengupta's comments, are we to accept that the TIB – and by corollary, any other NGO – can never make a comment on the parliament?