The government has taken plan to build a common utility tunnel or common duet in Dhaka north and south city corporations to increase

An alleged gambler died after falling from a wall during a police chase at Sonar Bangla Petrol Pump in Boda upazila town of Panchagarh

Transparency International Bangladesh yesterday urged the government not to take soft loans to tackle impacts of climate change.

The government should strengthen its monitoring and enforcing system to prevent CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers from overcharging passengers, demanded road safety activists yesterday.

Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan yesterday told the parliament that as far as he knows there is no unfit river vessel in the country.

The government should immediately finalise and implement a draft domestic help protection and welfare guideline to protect children from repression and torture, speakers told a views-exchange meeting yesterday.

A two-member US State Department delegation met with high-level officials here yesterday and discussed Bangladesh's bilateral relations with the United States, its security situation, and regional issues.

A special legal framework should be put in place by the government to protect land rights of the former enclave dwellers, who do not have any proper record of land ownership but have been living on that land for years, three rights organisations recommended yesterday.

The ongoing eighth session of parliament will continue till November 23. The decision was taken at the Business Advisory Committee meeting at Jatiya Sangsad yesterday afternoon with Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address a press conference today on the outcome of her just-concluded visit to the Netherlands.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a press briefing tomorrow about the outcome of her three-day tour to the Netherlands.

Environmentalists at a views-exchange meeting yesterday demanded that the government deploy the army to protect Mongla-

Lambasting the government for the sorry state of the law and order situation, Bikolpodhara Bangladesh President AQM Badruddoza

Japanese Ambassador in Bangladesh Masato Watanabe yesterday presented a Certificate of Commendation to Abu

Bangladesh should maintain all safety measures and strictly follow the building codes in constructing buildings in

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, yesterday urged

The government is providing allowances to 48 lakh widows, physically challenged and elderly people every month under its social safety net programmes aimed at containing the onslaught of poverty in the country.

The government yesterday unveiled National Social Security Strategy (NSSS) to implement the Seventh Five Year Plan

Bangladesh and the Netherlands have agreed to work more closely for the implementation of Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 to make the delta safe and productive for its people.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein yesterday called on the government of Bangladesh to take urgent, concerted measures to ensure the protection of all those being threatened by extremists operating in the country.