The capital may face a much worse flooding in future than what it suffered last week if canals and floodplains are not reclaimed soon, cautioned noted civil engineer Prof Jamilur Reza Choudhury.

Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants yesterday, bussed to the Hungarian border by a

Senior journalists Nurul Huda and Aminul Haque have been elected president and secretary respectively of the Dhaka Sangbadik Griho Sangsthan Samabay Samity for the next three years.

Operations at Syedpur Airport in Nilphamari were halted for two hours yesterday after a wheel of an aircraft of US-Bangla airlines

Socio cultural and right activists yesterday demanded that the government preserve the historic Pahartali European Club as “Pritilata

Three members of Bagharpara Police Station were closed to the District Police Lines on Thursday night after a constable arrested in

With references to dehototto (esoteric knowledge of the human body), symbols and metaphors of the human body are commonly used in Bangla folk songs.

Nearly 300 acres of croplands and 800 houses and shops were devoured by the river Meghna in Rajapur and Elisha unions in Sadar

Former finance minister M Saifur Rahman had worked for the economic development and wellbeing of the country and its people

A Dhaka court yesterday rejected bail of three alleged members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team and sent them to jail

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday claimed that they had not found any involvement of ruling Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi in drug smuggling.

Speakers at a discussion yesterday suggested enacting a uniform family law in the country instead of religion and custom-based laws, which often discriminate against women.

Newly appointed German Ambassador in Dhaka Dr Thomas Prinz yesterday said Bangladesh needs to uphold freedom of the press and protect bloggers as blogging has become a new form of journalism.

The ongoing movement of the teachers demanding removal of the vice chancellor of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet took a new turn as a group of students yesterday expressed solidarity with them.

Heavy rain has deteriorated the flood situation inundating fresh areas in over a dozen districts of the North and the Northeast.

Aiming to create a network among the scholars in various fields of research, a three-day “Dhaka International Business and Social Science

Police could not arrest anyone till yesterday in connection with Jubo League activist Badal murder in Chittagong on Tuesday.

Even the areas of Dhaka with a well equipped sewerage system that usually do not get waterlogged due to rain were inundated yesterday as rainfall exceeded normal levels.

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