A grid failure at Haripur in Narayanganj resulted in shut down of a number of power plants in the country leaving many areas in the capital including parliament and Bangabhaban without power for up to an hour.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith today faced wrath from lawmakers in parliament repeatedly for his claim that projects below Tk 25 crore from block allocation are being implemented in various parts of the country.

United Nations expresses deep concern over attacks on journalists and intellectuals in Bangladesh in the recent days.

France condemns the killing of blogger Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, who was brutally hacked by cleaver-wielding youths under broad daylight in Dhaka.

Rapid Action Battalion seizes 7,500 kg of jatka and fined 11 people Tk 5000 each for selling those at Karwan Bazar wholesale fish market in Dhaka, Rab sources say.

International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission (CHTC) yesterday strongly condemned the “alarming trend” of attacks on indigenous

Salman Khan's driver today appeared in court for the first time and said that he - not the actor - was driving the SUV that crushed people sleeping on a pavement in Mumbai in 2002.

Traffic movement on Dhaka-Rangpur highway remains suspended for one and a half hours as locals put up barricade protesting death of school student in Bogra road crash

The government will provide new electricity connections to 1.21 crore people within this year by setting up 3.23 lakh kilometres of transmission line and 650 sub-stations, says State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid Bipu.

The World Bank will construct at least 330 new cyclone shelters in the cyclone-prone areas of Bangladesh by 2017.

Police rescued a 13-year-old boy, who was kidnapped from Comilla last week for ransom, and arrested a man with whom he was found in

Amid a slack monitoring in recent months, the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh and a few other militant outfits have become active

BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed's wife yesterday again sought the prime minister's intervention in tracing him while Inspector General of

Bangladesh Bridge Authority (BBA) yesterday issued a rejoinder against a news headlined “Consultant set to become builder” published in The Daily Star Tuesday.

The overall theoretical framework of covering war in mass media gives evidence that to justify war the political leadership uses fragile

While illegal parking continues causing traffic chaos in the capital, the two city corporations and Dhaka Metropolitan Police are

It was late afternoon of 25th March. Professor Govinda Chandra Dev, along with a junior colleague of his from the philosophy department, was crossing the road near TSC of the University of Dhaka to go to Ramna Race Course for his regular stroll.

It was at this hour 44 years ago today that the first Pakistani army units began moving into Dhaka - and a night of unimaginable horror

Both of them were landless. One of them, Khorshed Alam, was a day labourer and the other, Yadul Mollah, a truck helper. But they had

“I want my daughter to grow up in my own home. I will not accept any (compensation) offer. Nothing is as good as returning home,”