Just one hour of heavy rains led to the collapse of the capital's traffic system as most of the roads, lanes and bi-lanes were inundated with hundreds of vehicles stranded for hours yesterday, causing immense sufferings to tens of thousands of commuters. Waterlogging compelled many to walk miles after getting off buses stuck in nearly unending tailbacks in all major roads, including the Kazi Nazrul Islam avenue, Mirpur road, Manik Mia avenue, Pragati Sarani.

Anowar Hossain Mazumder, 37, a former employee of UNDP, is suffering from severe renal failure and in need of immediate kidney

Publishers of noted writer Prof Muhammad Zafar Iqbal will hold a sit-in at the Central Shaheed Minar today, protesting the assault on his

A Rajshahi University teacher has been barred from taking part in any examination related activities for tampering a tabulation sheet and forging a thesis paper

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), dominated by pro-BNP lawyers, yesterday demanded suspension of the results of recently held elections to Bangladesh Bar Council, and holding its re-election citing "unprecedented irregularities."

Due to a lack of proper drainage system, most of the low-lying areas have been waterlogged after only one hour of incessant rain in Rajshahi city yesterday causing untold sufferings to the dwellers.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed a bench assistant of Dhaka Second Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, on a three-day remand in a case filed for

A prosecution witness yesterday corroborated testimonies of previous witnesses that Obaidul Haque Taher and Ataur Rahman Nani killed freedom fighter Dabir Hossain in Netrokona town during the Liberation War in 1971.

Teachers continued demonstrations and observed a three-hour work stoppage at public universities across the country yesterday demanding cancellation of the proposed eight national payscale and a new one for them.

Prof Muhammed Zafar Iqbal perhaps could not believe what had just happened -- some students of his university swooping on their teachers right before his eyes.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed yesterday to governments to step up their response to Europe's migrant crisis following more drowning at sea and the discovery of migrant bodies in an abandoned truck in Austria.

Mahatma Gandhi and Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam were poles apart, but they both had a common dream to free their motherland from British

The government must immediately reclaim the designated flood flow zones, water retention areas and canals from realtors and

Dayamoyee Asram owner Arun Guha Majumder yesterday said he willingly sold his Jheeltuli house in Faridpur to LGRD Minister Khandker

Family members late Kazi Zafar Ahmed, chairman of a faction of Jatiya Party and former prime minister during HM Ershad's regime, sought

The flood water started receding from Lalmonirhat and Gaibandha but erosions by the rivers Dharla and Jamuna, which were triggered

A spinning mill now stands on a flood plain earmarked as conservable in the capital's master plan with the authorities playing the role

‘Early in his life, Kazi Nazrul Islam, the most notable Muslim poet of modern Bengal, edited and published a weekly Bengali journal named Dhumketu, the Comet.

A blogger files a general diary with Mohammadpur Police Station in Dhaka this afternoon seeking protection as she fears for her life.

At least 70 people are estimated to have died of starvation, dehydration, disease and abuse by the crews at sea on ships abandoned in May this year, said the UN Refugee Agency yesterday.