South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been impeached on December 9, 2016, following a bizarre scandal.

The ninth Global Forum on Migration and Development Summit is being held in Bangladesh at a time when the world is facing the worst migration and refugee crisis in the history of human civilisation.

Following Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro's death on November 25, numerous columns and articles have been written about his achievements and failures.

Julekha Akter, 21, from Gobindopur village in Hoglapasha union of Bagherhat's Morelgonj upazila has to travel quite a distance to reach

The cracks that developed due to use of poor quality materials during construction of twelve U-drains and a box-culvert in a former

"The brutal Pakistani army snatched away all the charm and happiness from my life 45 years ago," said Biva Rani, struggling for survival

Bangladesh has all the ingredients in place to pull off this transition from externally focused to genuinely nationally driven goals to both tackle climate change as well as deliver sustainable development by 2030.

In view of the grisly and gory attacks, allegedly state-sponsored, on the Rohingya Muslim minority of neighbouring Myanmar, it would not be out of place to take a serious look at the menacing face of the other kind of fundamentalism about which the international community has not been desirably vocal.

In Barisal's Agailjhara upazila catching Gangeatic mud eels is a livelihood for many. The freshwater eel-like fish, which technically

The Kuakata sea beach area sees gradual encroachment as a section of people are making illegal structures in the picturesque tourist

Today is being observed as Democracy Day in the country, although given the moribund state democracy is in at present, one wonders whether the appellation for the day is justified at this point in time.

Following rise in wage, the workers at Burimari land port in the district resumed work yesterday, ending the two-day strike they had

Illegal hill cutting continues unabated for commercial purpose in Lawachara forest area of Srimangal and Kamalganj upazilas under the

Hatred against Muslims, particularly Rohingyas, has been smouldering in Myanmar since it obtained its independence from Britain in 1948. Besides fighting 15 insurgent groups along its borders, Myanmar has never been at peace with itself.

Following the end of almost fifty years of military rule in Myanmar and the release of the Nobel Laureate leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2011, the world had looked at the country with much enthusiasm.

Idon't know what I would be going through if I had been a Hindu resident of Brahmanbaria's Nasirnagar, and now recently of Bochaganj, Dinajpur, where at least 20 Hindu houses have been torched, if my house or that of my Hindu relatives or neighbours had been attacked by a few hundred frenzied men who unleashed their hatred by vandalising, looting and setting everything on fire.

Politics, for as long as I can remember, has been practised by most politicians (at least outwardly so) to give the impression that the 'politician' (not too many who pursue politics favour that stamp) was striving for the wellbeing of the electorate.

The production of aman paddy this season exceeded targets in seven upazilas of the district, much to the delight of farmers.

Ustaad Purbayan Chatterjee aptly says that the Bengal Classical Music Festival is the Woodstock of classical music.

War heroine Ganobala breaks into tears when she recalls the horrible days of torture on her by the Pakistani soldiers during the War of Liberation.