Govt has begun consultations with researchers and stakeholders and is also working to verify the official list of freedom fighters, he says

Salahuddin describes new law as milestone in Bangladesh's efforts to combat serious transnational crimes

Eleven members of two brothers' families remained isolated for days before relief finally reached them

Protesters announce march towards Secretariat as traffic disruption continues

Flood victims to receive rehabilitation support and financial assistance to repair damaged homes, says state minister

Three-member committee to investigate claims of medical negligence at private hospital in seven working days

Municipality, district administration and Roads and Highways Department deny knowledge as removal sparks confusion among residents

Over 2,100 ponds and 500 fish enclosures affected

Agreement reached on election committee; operations normalised after daylong strike

A Panchagarh court yesterday sent a battery-run rickshaw van driver to jail after he was arrested on allegations of raping two children on separate occasions in Boda upazila, police said.

After daylong student protests in Dhaka and several other districts, Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon yesterday apologised in parliament for his remarks about HSC examinees.

The local administration in Bogura’s Sariakandi upazila has launched an investigation into an anti-drug activity after videos showed a union parishad chairman and his associates publicly beating suspected drug users and sellers.

About one in every 13 Bangladeshi women experiences menopause before the age of 45, according to the largest multi-country study led by researchers at icddr,b.

Footpaths across Khulna city, renovated at a cost of hundreds of crores of taka to improve pedestrian mobility, are increasingly being reoccupied by hawkers, forcing people onto busy roads and creating daily safety risks.

As monsoon rains swell the pond beside her home in Bajitkhila village of Sherpur, Nusrat Jahan Ritu grows increasingly anxious.

The leader of the notorious Chhoto Jahangir gang and 26 of his associates surrendered to the Bangladesh Coast Guard in the Sundarbans on Monday, handing over a cache of firearms and ammunition.

Seven more children died from measles and measles-like symptoms in the last 24 hours until 8:00am yesterday, bringing Bangladesh’s combined tally of confirmed and suspected measles-related deaths to 766.

The chairman of Bandarban’s Alikadam Sadar Union Parishad and three ward members have been suspended over allegations of issuing fake citizenship certificates and “non-Rohingya” attestations to facilitate the inclusion of Rohingyas in the voter list.

The Teesta river has crossed its danger level for the second time this monsoon, inundating low-lying areas and riverine chars and raising fears of fresh flooding along its banks.

The government will welcome ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina if she returns from India to face the cases against her, Prime Minister’s Information Adviser Zahed Ur Rahman said yesterday.