Noting that journalists in Bangladesh have faced heightened pressure for critical reporting on the authorities, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called for the immediate release of journalist Probir Sikdar and investigation into the threats he faced.

Some top cops in Faridpur threatened journalist Probir Sikdar, who lost a leg in an attack in 2001, that they would make sure that he lose the other leg, he told a court yesterday.

A Bangladesh Chhatra League leader was killed in a “gunfight” between his associates and Rab members in the capital's Hazaribagh area early yesterday, around 12 hours after he and his friends allegedly beat a teenage boy to death.

Without a master plan a planned urbanisation is impossible, said Chittagong City Corporation Mayor AJM Nasir Uddin yesterday.

Nearly two crore people have been suffering from kidney related ailments across the country, said heath experts at a seminar yesterday.

A bomb exploded close to a shrine in the centre of Thailand's capital, Bangkok, yesterday killing at least 19 people and injuring more than 120.

British Minister of State for International Development Desmond Swayne is expected to arrive in Bangladesh for a three-day official visit

Mahboob Rahman Mani, younger son of former minister M Matiur Rahman, died in a car accident in Dallas, USA on August 3 and was

At least seven female migrants returned in the last two weeks while another 24 are seeking government assistance to be repatriated after quitting jobs as domestic helps in Saudi Arabia alleging they fell ill after facing abuse and excessive workload.

Bodies of the five armed criminals, killed during Saturday's gunfight between an unknown gang and army at Baradam of Rangamati's Baghaichhari upazila, were handed over to their families yesterday, police said.

The administration of Rajshahi College has allegedly violated the education ministry's order for enrolling class XI students to the 50 newly introduced seats under the English version category.

Teachers from all 37 public universities in the country abstained from work for three hours yesterday protesting the proposed eighth national payscale and demanding a separate one for them.

Despite paying fees to private hajj agencies, around 15,000 Bangladeshis will not be able to perform hajj this year, as the quota of

The cases filed each month in Chittagong district overwhelmingly outnumber the ones adjudicated during the period. As the cases pile

The Shimulia-Kawrakandi route in Munshiganj suffered heavy traffic congestion yesterday due to absence of four ferries and rush of the

Bus operations from Chittagong to Cox's Bazar and Bandarban was suspended for five hours yesterday as the city's transport workers

A weeklong training on journalism was inaugurated at , Institute of Journalism and Communication (IJC) in the capital yesterday.

Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay (1898-1971) was one of the great modern Bengali novelists. His works depicts his

Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Nurul Islam BSc yesterday said several thousand Rohingyas holding Bangladeshi

One of the three of a family who were burnt when a fire broke out in an apartment on Central Road in the capital on Saturday, died at