The youth in Bangladesh (ages 15-30) form almost a third of the country's population, and almost half the youth population are women.

Freedom fighter and cultural personality Nasiruddin Yusuf Bachchu yesterday said the government had failed to arrest the Pahela Baishakh molesters

Over 100 shop owners of Noyarhat Bazar in Ashulia kept businesses shut throughout the day and blocked the adjoining Dhaka-Aricha

Commemorating the death of 28 million people of the former Soviet Union in World War II, veteran leftist politician Ajoy Roy yesterday

Misreporting is complicating the efforts to address the problem of early marriage in Bangladesh, a new study by icddr,b reveals.

The cargo vessel carrying fertiliser that sunk in the Bhola River at Sarankhola range of the Sundarbans on Tuesday is yet to be salvaged even after four days.

Three people were killed and another was injured as a nor'wester swept through Shahjadpur upazila of Sirajganj on Thursday night.

As legal channels for labour migration from Bangladesh have shrunk due to malpractices in the arrangements by both private agencies and the government, desperate jobseekers take dangerous sea route to Malaysia.

After the discovery of “death camps” in southern Thailand, reports are now trickling in that there may be similar slave camps housing illegal immigrants on the Malaysian side of the border.

No condition to bring down the minimum marriageable age for females from 18 to 16 should be added to the proposed "Child Marriage Restraint Act 2014", activists from three networks of over 500 local and foreign NGOs and development organisations said yesterday.

In a rare display of unanimity, India's Rajya Sabha yesterday passed the landmark constitution amendment bill to ratify the long-pending Land Boundary Agreement with Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha yesterday gave a 10-day deadline for a complete scrutiny of all areas for possible detention camps

The Chittagong University authorities yesterday issued a written statement, trashing the allegation that Vice Chancellor Prof Anwarul

A day-old baby, reportedly sold by the mother, was recovered by police from a bus in the capital's Paltan yesterday.

North Bengal Sugar (NBS) Mill will observe Shaheed Day today in memory of the killing of its 150 officials and employees by Pakistani

The cooperative microcredit loan facilities have made dozens of families, affected by river bank erosion, at Purbo Kochua- 1 Asrayan

Nearly 3,700 migrants were rescued from boats near the coast of Libya on Saturday and early yesterday, the Italian coastguard said.

Former BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu died of “cardiac arrest” yesterday.

Although chlorine is widely used to make water clean and safe, an ICDDR,B study suggests that storing and handling water correctly is

War crimes researcher Shahriar Kabir yesterday said the March 28 city corporation polls, after the national election of 2008, were one of