An engine-run boat carrying 16 tonnes of rice capsized after hitting a shoal in the river Meghna near Hazirhat area in Bhola's Monpura

At least 20 people, including six Dhaka University students, fell sick allegedly after eating meals at its Kabi Jasim Uddin Hall canteen on Thursday night.

To promote tourism, South Asian Tourism Federation was formed yesterday at a meeting attended by representatives from Bangladesh,

Myanmar's navy brings ashore 200 “Bengali boatpeople” found off its coast.

They called on the Bangladeshi authorities to swiftly and impartially investigate Ananta's death as well as the murders of Oyasiqur and Avijit, and ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice in accordance with international fair trial standards.

Drought-like conditions have developed in Rajshahi especially in its vast barind tract in recent days, affecting lives of the inhabitants

State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said the government would bring back Bangladeshi human trafficking victims coordinating with the countries concerned.

When all eyes are on human trafficking by sea, a new trick of smuggling people into Europe in the guise of government officials has been exposed.

Transport workers have threatened to intensify their strike by stopping all sorts of passenger vehicles' operation in Khulna division from this morning, if the driver and helper arrested in connection with a robbery are not released by then.

Gazipur city Mayor MA Mannan was shifted to Birdem hospital in the capital from Kashimpur jail-1 yesterday following fluctuations in his blood pressure.

Amid growing pressure from the international community, Malaysia and Indonesia have finally decided to give temporary shelter to around 7,000 people drifting in the sea.

Patriarchal perception of men and women and the culture of impunity which protects perpetrators of sexual harassment must change to prevent the crime against women and make public spaces safer for them, said discussants at a programme yesterday.

Demanding arrear salaries, 100 Ansar members, whose appointments have been temporarily withdrawn, demonstrated by blocking the main entrance to the Barisal office of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP in the city's Kashipur yesterday.

The British Council is relocating its Uttara teaching centre to Turkish Hope International School from Trust College, said a press release.

The Philippines yesterday said it was ready to shelter the Rohingyas and Bangladeshi migrants stranded in the Andaman Sea and the Straits of Malacca if the boats carrying them landed on the Philippine shores.

Residents of Basabo are forced to take an unpleasant walk every day near the playground where garbage spills over the containers onto

Saudi Arabia provided 486 metric tons of dates which has been distributed among 243,000 under-privileged schoolchildren of Dhaka and

The Supreme Court yesterday extended its April 30 order that issued a status quo on the possession of Jamuna Resort Ltd (JRL) till the High Court delivers a final decision in this regard.

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard seized around 17.1 lakh shrimp fry worth Tk 34.2 lakh from Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in Moizzartek area of Patiya upazila in

The appalling traffic congestion that Dhaka dwellers suffered on Saturday and Sunday was the result of a trial of new electronic traffic signal system installed for the second time, wasting crores in taxpayers' money. In the last 11 years, the government spent Tk 37 crore on the traffic signal system in the capital.