Over 162km of road in Chittagong city have been damaged by the incessant rain and consequent waterlogging.

State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki yesterday urged people not to discuss much the minimum marriageable age of females as stated in the draft Child Marriage Restraint Act because it may deepen the confusion over the issue.

A total of 9.4 million Bangladeshi migrants are toiling in various parts of the globe and sending their hard-earned money back home.

Five more people, including three women and a kid, were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Cox's Bazar town early yesterday, barely a month after five died in landslides in the district.

Around hundred employees of the National Mushroom Development and Extension Centre in Savar, outside the capital, yesterday laid siege to the office building demanding their jobs back.

Famed former Indian president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, who had travelled frequently within his country and outside to inspire the youth, also mesmerised students in Dhaka with his captivating speech.

A woman whose body was found in an Uttara gutter by police on June 25 was identified by National Forensic DNA Profiling Laboratory of

The Indian High Commission in Dhaka has advised all to inform the Bangladesh law enforcement authorities for taking legal actions

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) yesterday formed three separate sub-committees to identify impersonators on its premises, and take action against them and bar their access to the association.

Rain and onrush of water from upstream caused the flooding to worsen in the hilly district of Bandarban, and Feni and Cox's Bazar yesterday. This is the second time floods have affected these places this year. Around 40,000 people in Bandarban were marooned and road communications between the district and other parts of the country remained snapped for the second consecutive day yesterday, reports our correspondent there citing local public representatives.

To avenge an assault on his brother, a prisoner attacked an inmate inside Rajshahi Central Jail Saturday evening days after the former was sent to the prison.

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is leaving for Singapore for better treatment.

A mobile court yesterday seized 200kg of banned piranha and 500kg of prawns and lobsters injected with harmful substance at the capital's Karwan Bazar.

A small scale fire breaks out at Bangladesh Bank in Dhaka’s Motijheel this afternoon, however, no major losses or casualties were incurred.

Customs officials detained a passenger with 1.5 lakh Saudi Riyals at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital yesterday.

Detectives rescued a man and arrested seven kidnappers including two agents of a mobile banking service from a hotel on the capital's

Skill development, language training and quality education for the youth are necessary for a country to get benefits from its large

Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday asked his party activists to strengthen their activities so that it could win at least 151 seats in

In a rare case, the operations of the Libyan embassy in Dhaka have remained suspended for around two weeks due to a dispute between

Deaths in road accidents continue to climb as 17 more people lost their lives in different districts yesterday, taking the death toll in