A group of ruling Awami League lawmakers who are also physicians yesterday issued a 24-hour ultimatum on BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia to withdraw the ongoing blockade, and hartals and stop violence during those times, threatening to “resist it democratically”.

Because of a delay in spraying pesticides, the mosquito menace has grown acute in different parts of Rajshahi city and Rajshahi University in the last one month and a half.

The government will relocate Bangladeshi migrant workers to the neighbouring countries from Libya if security situation of North African country worsens further

Customs intelligence have seized eight gold bars weighing 800 grams concealed in an electronic device at Postal Freight Unit at Dhaka airport

Ireland accidentally legalises ecstasy, crystal meth and ketamine for a day due to a legal loophole

Another Bangladeshi national was among the nine foreigners abducted from a Libyan oilfield on Friday, the Bangladesh embassy in Tripoli confirmed yesterday.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to rescue abducted girl Snigdha Deb Jayee and produce her before it within 30 days.

Taniya Akhtar, a class IV student of Jatrabari Girls High School, walks more than one kilometre every day to commute between her home and school.

An auto-rickshaw driver, who suffered burn injuries when pro-hartal activists firebombed his vehicle in Hathazari upazila of Chittagong on March 4, dies at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH)

The BNP-led 20-party alliance has relaxed its ongoing hartal for 12 hours from 6:00am today for celebrating the Tigers' historic victory in

With people hitting the city streets in large numbers over the past few days, the impact of continuous spells of hartals and an indefinite blockade seems to have largely waned.

A Bangladeshi was among nine foreign nationals taken hostage by Islamic State militants in an attack on an oilfield in Libya on Friday.

The BNP-led 20-party alliance has relaxed its ongoing hartal for 12 hours from 6:00am today for celebrating the Tigers' historic victory in yesterday's World Cup match. The blockade, however, will continue.

Nowadays day labourer Mosharraf Hossain does not care if he is paid half of what he usually gets as long as he can earn money.

There are over 200 accident-prone spots on highways across the country, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader told parliament yesterday.

About 2 lakh acres of arable land remain uncultivated in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHTs) every year due to various reasons, said DAE sources.

Police recovers the body of an accused in an arson case from Mithapukur upazila in Rangpur this morning.

A Bangladeshi national along with eight other foreigners has been taken hostage allegedly by Islamic State from an oil field, south of Sirte in Libya

Dhaka court to decide on March 18 whether it will frame charges against eight accused for the blogger's killing

Five people are killed in a machine-gun and grenade attack on a nightclub in Mali's capital, Bamako