Terming Bangladesh a country with tremendous potential, newly appointed Japanese Ambassador Masato Watanabe said he is eager to

Prof Shamsuzzaman Khan was re-appointed as the director general of Bangla Academy yesterday for three years, according to a public

The National Freedom Fighter Foundation distributed Eid gifts among 500 underprivileged freedom fighters on Wednesday.

The French embassy in Dhaka celebrated the French National Day, also known as Bastille Day, on Tuesday.

Major powers yesterday clinched a historic deal aimed at ensuring Iran does not obtain the nuclear bomb, opening up Tehran's stricken economy and potentially ending decades of bad blood with the West.

Stressing the importance of properly maintaining the country's roads and highways, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the

An appeal was filed with the Supreme Court yesterday seeking its directives upon the government to test the wheat imported from

A Dhaka Judges Court lawyer files a writ petition with the Supreme Court today seeking its directives upon the government to examine the wheat imported from Brazil at a “neutral laboratory” by collecting its sample through a committee formed by the apex court.

Though the highways connecting Dhaka with other major cities are in a relatively good shape, people going home for Eid may face severe traffic gridlock at the capital's exit points. Narrow roads, haphazard roadside parking, unplanned stoppages, plying of rundown vehicles and poor traffic management may cause traffic mayhems at the exit points, making the journeys agonising at the very beginning.

Amid a growing number of allegations of abduction by detective police impersonators in the capital, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday urged the city

France has expressed its interest in assisting Bangladesh in reaching its goal to become a middle income country by 2021.

Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury yesterday sent a letter to the Election Commission (EC) asking to see whether the expulsion of sacked minister Abdul Latif Siddique from the Awami League means termination of his membership in parliament.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is likely to induct some new faces into her council of ministers today as part of a plan to bring fresh blood in it, say sources.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) will introduce today a new passenger vessel MV Madhumoti on Dhaka-Barisal-Khulna route.

The holy Shab-e-Qadr, superior to thousand nights as per the holy Quran, will be observed tonight with due solemnity and religious fervour.

From next year, all utility service organisations can dig roads for different projects only between October and February to avoid the

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday renewed her call to every adult citizen of the country to plant at least three saplings -- one timber, one fruit bearing and one herbal -- to protect the environment.

While long queues of ticket-seekers were seen in front of the counters at Kamalapur Railway Station and those of private bus operators, the picture in front

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will beef up security during this Eid vacation to guard holidaymakers' houses and business establishments in the capital, said

Indian scientists will be looking at rivers flowing through Bangladesh to collect data and study the "dead zones" in the Bay of Bengal where oxygen level is nearly zero.