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,”

Members of BCS Customs and Vat Association and BCS Taxation Association protested the attack on Barrister Jahangir Hossain, National

2 Bangladeshi workers, freed by Libyan militants yesterday, will be taken to Tripoli from Sirte Hospital where they are staying now

Two more arson victims, who suffered severe burns in separate firebomb attacks in Chandpur and Magura, die at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital

A boy died and three of his family members fell ill after eating puffer fishes during their lunch in the capital's Hazaribagh yesterday.

The High Court yesterday asked the government and the police to show cause in two weeks as to why the law enforcers responsible

Two Bangladeshi migrant workers, abducted by unknown militants from a Libyan oil field on March 6, were freed yesterday.

A mobile court backed by Rapid Action Battalion convicted 20 illegal passport brokers in the capital yesterday.

Garment workers yesterday torched a bus which hit two of their fellow workers on Dhaka-Tangail highway at Ziranibazar in Ashulia,

A Narayanganj court yesterday granted a seven-day remand for Raham Ali, an accomplice of Nur Hossain, the prime accused of the