Despite opposition from businesses, Finance Minister AMA Muhith says a uniform 15 percent VAT will be applicable from next fiscal year.

Although the prevalence of HIV/AIDS is low in the country, Bangladesh is still at high risk of the deadly disease spreading due to its demographic transition and easy access to drugs, say experts.

Former Bangladesh pace bowler Shahadat Hossain, during a press conference at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, apologises unconditionally to the nation for torturing a house help, an offence for which he served a jail term.

A website has been launched in Dhaka city with a view to curb commercial use of sexual exploitation of children in Bangladesh.

A Dhaka court takes cognisance of the charges against 41 people including Rana Plaza owner Sohel Rana in connection with a murder case filed over the Rana Plaza collapse which killed at least 1,136 people.

The recent killings have been carried out to harm religious harmony across the country, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan says.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government had taken steps to ensure legal aid services at the country's grassroots level.

Jean Lambert, chair of European Parliament’s delegation for South Asia, has condemned the recent killings in Bangladesh, including those of an LGBT magazine editor and his friend.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been flown to Bangkok for treatment.

Teachers of Rajshahi University observe a one-hour work abstention demanding punishment to the killers of Prof AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee.

An activist of ruling Awami League is killed in a clash between supporters of two chairman candidates contesting the upcoming fourth phase union parishad (UP) elections in Kushtia Sadar upazila.

In contrary to the government’s growth expectation of beyond 7 percent for 2016, a United Nations body has said it would not exceed 6.8 percent.

Calling for swift investigations into the recent murders and bringing the culprits to justice, the European Union and three other

US Ambassador in Dhaka Marcia Bernicat has said what have been happening in Bangladesh are not its “characteristics” at all.

The fate of the music school that slain Prof AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee had endeavoured to give an institutional structure has

Journalist Shafik Rehman was sent to prison yesterday having been held in remand for 10 days in connection with an alleged

Bangladesh Bank's prompt actions averted large scale hacking into its account with the New York Fed, Prime Minister Sheikh

Police arrested a suspected member of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) at Shajahanpur upazila early yesterday for his alleged involvement in a gun attack on a Shia mosque in Shibganj upazila that left the mosque muezzin dead last year.

Police yesterday claimed to have important information regarding the killers of Rajshahi University teacher Rezaul Karim Siddiquee.

Three suspected robbers were beaten to death by locals at Uttar Kattali in Chittagong city early yesterday.