Government approves of importing additional 600MW power from neighbouring India at a cost of about Tk 1,600 crore via the electricity interconnectivity grid.

Criminal Investigation Department says that they arrested a man, who was involved in kidnapping for ransom of around 100 Bangladeshis in middle-east countries

Here we publish a letter written by Kamruddin Ahmad to the Law Minister on November 21, 1972. Kamruddin Ahmad was a Language Movement hero, politician, lawyer and diplomat.

Barely a month after the brutal murder of Avijit Roy, another blogger and online activist was hacked to death in broad daylight yesterday. Oyasiqur Rahman Babu, 27, was attacked by three cleaver-wielding youths in the capital's Tejgaon Industrial area around 9:00am.

Bangladesh strongly condemns actions by the Houthis against the legitimate government led by President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi of Yemen

A tribunal in Dhaka asks prosecution to submit on April 13 the formal charges against eight suspected war criminals for their crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 Liberation War.

A wave of outcry spread through the mainstream and social media across world after ICC chairman handed over the World Cup trophy to the winning captain sidelining its president

Indian police charge 21 accused including four Bangladeshi militants of banned outfit JMB in the Burdwan blast case of Kolkata.

The cabinet approves a new law to introduce 1 percent surcharge on mobile phone use, cabinet secretary says. The government will earn Tk 140cr each year when the law will become effective.

A worker is burnt alive and four others are injured after a fire broke out in a medicine factory of Opsonin Pharma in Barisal city.

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

Alleged chief of a forest bandit racket of the Sundarbans killed in 'gunfight' with police in Koyra upazila of Khulna.

THE Western media was all about Lee Kuan Yew, the founding father of modern Singapore, when he died recently.

BEFORE we knew it, it was the year 1970. There were political movements all around. The confrontations of the students and the public of East Bengal had reached their peak.

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.

A mayor aspirant has been fined for riding a horse cart wrapped in campaign banners and posters in violation of the electoral code of conducts.

High Court denies bail to an owner of a garment factory housed in Rana Plaza building that collapsed in 2013, in a corruption case.

Two Bangladesh nationals, who are trapped in two hotels in Yemen due to allied strikes against Houthi rebels, have appealed for immediate rescue

20-party calls 48-hour hartal from Monday demanding return of missing Salahuddin Ahmed. Dhaka, Ctg to remain out of purview.

Ten mayor aspirants submit their nomination papers to contest the Dhaka north and south city corporation polls today, the last day for submitting nomination papers