His body lies on the bank of a river with his legs still in the water; barely moving.

Fifty-five percent of urban households across the country use water that contains risky level of hazardous bacteria E. coli at source, according a Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) finding.

A few days back Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina demonstrated her political sagacity by rethinking her decision of making Syed Ashraful Islam a minister without portfolio.

Bangladeshi river experts and environmentalists expressed concern over India's fresh move to implement the controversial river linking project that will connect trans-boundary rivers and divert water to southern Indian states.

Purti Munda, the forefather of Mahasweta Devi's adivasi hero, Chotti Munda, had lamented how, wherever he goes, however remote the place, someone appears right away – “Whites-Bangalis-Biharis” – to snatch away his land, and along with it, his peace of mind.

Like many other offices, Eid holidays left an impact on three public hospitals in the capital, but the scene of the burn institute at Dhaka Medical College Hospital was a little different.

Maybe it's ghreena, this pervasive feeling of hostility, hatred, and disgust built into a mass of rage that is one of the biggest problems with the world today.

Excited five-year-old girl Naima was waiting at a bus stop but she could hardly wait for a boat ride, which her grandfather promised to make it happen during her Eid holidays at their village home in Bogra. "Dadu [grandfather] has told me over the phone that a boat is waiting for me. Dadu and I will get on it tomorrow [Friday] and be on it all day long," an enthusiastic Naima said.

Though himself a 13-year-old child, Sheikh Md Samiul Alam Rajon used to cater to the needs of his nine-year-old brother Sheikh

Who says bowlers should have all the fun? Ask Soumya Sarkar and Tamim Iqbal, and they will tell you that that opening period of the second innings, when they literally demolished one of the best bowling attacks in the world, was the highlight of the series against South Africa. Ask the fans who braved the rains at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium and they will probably be taunting the spectators in Dhaka, for they managed to witness something that the capital could not; a total annihilation orchestrated by Bangladesh's batsmen.

A double-decker bus of the state-run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) left Nandan Park in Ashulia at 9:20am on Monday. It slowly moved towards the capital as the helper looked for passengers.

The latest move to provide civil servants with legal shield from criminal cases filed while discharging their official duties has exposed once again the

When the video of a 13-year-old child labourer being brutally beaten to death went viral in Bangladesh last week, every major television station in the country aired bits of it. Every local news website hosted it.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inducted three new faces into her council of ministers and promoted two state ministers to the post of ministers.

Bangladesh yesterday began greenhouse trial of a genetically modified (GM) cotton variety imported from China.

The Supreme Court yesterday granted a six-week bail to BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on medical grounds, clearing the way for his release from jail.

The tradition of increasing prices of groceries is also being maintained in this Eid season in Chittagong city.

The unenviable situations that veteran politicians Syed Ashraful Islam and Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir find themselves in is unprecedented in the country's politics since the restoration of parliamentary democracy in 1991.

Twenty-two crew of a Bangladeshi cargo vessel remain stranded in the African country of Guinea for more than seven months, as the authorities there seized the ship upon filing of compensation lawsuits by importers.

Two sacked top officials of scam-hit BASIC Bank allegedly invested their ill-gotten money in properties in Malaysia under Malaysia My Second Home