If the 43 Spanish nationals do not rejoin construction work of the 335MW power plant in Siddhirganj by November 5, the company

A retired civilian staff of the army was arrested on Thursday after a fifteen-year-old girl filed a case alleging he had raped her on several

Bangladesh's leather industry is one of the very few industries if not the only one for which Bangladesh does not have to import the main raw materials. Cheap labour, top quality raw materials that is hides of Bangladeshi cattle and global demand for luxury leather products has made it one of the most productive industries and foreign currency earners of Bangladesh. In 2014, Bangladesh's leather industry set a record for increasing exports up to 32.12 percent; for the first time it reached the US$1 billion mark for annual export.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday urged people to instill holy Ashura's spirit to restore democracy in Bangladesh and termed

Iqbal Bahar Khan, vice-chairman of Baniachang Upazila Parishad in Habiganj district and Jamaat leader, was suspended on Wednesday as

At least one person was killed and about 87 others were injured in homemade bomb explosions in front of Hossaini Dalan in old Dhaka early hours today.

Facebook Friends' Society, a Facebook group comprises of the local people of Bogra, formed a human chain at Satmatha in Bogra

Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) yesterday formed a three-member body headed by an assistant director to investigate

Police yesterday found a covered van, which had gone missing on the way to Dhaka from Chittagong early Thursday

Valuable machinery and hardboard stocks worth Tk 2 crore have been lying idle at state-owned Khulna Hard Board

The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA), will be observed in the country tomorrow with due religious fervour and solemnity.

Fire safety measures are ignored in most building designs in Bangladesh posing a high risk to human lives, a leading architect told a seminar in the capital yesterday.

Thirty-three out of 53 Bangladesh missions failed to achieve respective export targets set for the first quarter (July-September) of the current fiscal year (2015-16), according to the latest statistics provided by the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB).

Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), a global organisation of parliaments, announced hosting the 136th IPU Assembly in Dhaka in March 2017.

The number of recorded cases in Dhaka district has nearly halved in the last one year, a "success" which police attributed to a new initiative known as tele-policing.

There is little chance for inhabitants of former 111 Indian enclaves to get enrolled as voters this year as the upazilas, union parishads and wards are yet to be demarcated incorporating the new areas.

Leaders of a faction of the Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) demanded formation of ninth wage board and announcement of the New Year bonus for journalists and employees of the newspaper industry of the country.

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said fine for illegal parking and over speeding will be raised.

Fifty-four South Asians, including 35 Bangladeshis, seeking asylum in the US ended their six-day hunger strike at a detention centre in El Paso, Texas on October 20 following two days' negotiations between Dhaka and Washington, said diplomatic sources.

Justice AHM Shamsuddin Choudhury, a former Supreme Court judge, comes under attack in London, says his daughter Nadia Choudhury in her Facebook account.