Police foiled the attempt of the leaders and activists of Ganosamhati Andolon to besiege Bangladesh Bank in Dhaka's Motijheel area today

A group of rights activists yesterday protested the killing of three people and the mass arrest of children and women of the Bawm community in Bandarban

Tea Workers Day, a day commemorating the massacre of tea workers 103 years ago, was observed today in a befitting manner

Experts urged Bangladeshi flagged ocean-going vessel owning companies to come forward in giving priority to recruit more female cadets from the country’s marine academies

Refusing the recommendations made by the probe committee for the removal of "Sharifa's Tale" from the seventh-grade social science textbook, Human Rights Forum Bangladesh (HRFB) demanded forming another unbiased probe committee to investigate the content

Residents of Gazipur’s Kaliganj upazila formed a human chain at Arikhola Railway Station today demanding the stoppage of “Egaro Sindhur” and “Chattla Express” trains at the station

A probe committee, formed by the education ministry, has recommended the removal of the story titled “Sharifa's Tale” from the chapter on human resemblance and difference in the seventh-grade history and social science textbook

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to 12 job seekers in a case filed over their Saturday's demonstration in the capital’s Shahbagh..Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mahbub Ahmed passed the order after they filed bail petitions with the court, said a court police..Earlier in the day, S

Police foiled a demonstration by students and job seekers at Shahbagh intersection of Dhaka this afternoon

Workers of Akij Biri factory in Lalmonirhat's Kaliganj upazila stopped working since morning, protesting lay-off

Shipbreaking workers today demanded a food rationing system due to the rising essential commodity prices

Speakers tell discussion on World Press Freedom Day

The country was ranked 165th among 180 nations, placing it only above Afghanistan among South Asian countries

Seventy percent of environmental journalists from 129 countries, polled in March, reported experiencing attacks, threats or pressure related to their job, UNESCO said Thursday

At least 451 journalists were sued under the Digital Security Act (DSA) since its inception and 255 of them were sued for their journalistic reports, according to a research paper by Centre for Governance Studies (CGS)

There were no significant changes in the human rights situation in Bangladesh last year, according to the "2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Bangladesh"

The High Court, in the full text of a verdict, has observed that the acquisition, holding, transfer, and distribution of property, as well as changing its class, are fundamental rights of every citizen.

Experts at a programme have linked child marriage to climate adversities such as rising sea levels, river erosion, increased rainfalls, floods and cyclones, which lead to internal displacement and loss of livelihoods

Bangladesh’s ranking of 141 out of 164 on the Freedom Index places it within the "mostly unfree" category

The proposal submitted to the government by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to amend the NHRC Act has been "stuck", said its Chairman Kamal Uddin Ahmed today