Indian daily Anandabazar Patrika has sought unconditional apology for using the word “khairati” in a recent news that described how China is attracting Bangladesh after the Indo-China clashes in Ladakh.

A 12-year-old Bangladeshi boy, a suspected victim of human trafficking, has been found by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) in a railway wagon at Petrapole in West Bengal, and handed over to Indian Railway police.

Bangladesh has taken many positive initiatives towards inclusion in education but needs to do more in removing remaining barriers, says a new global report.

An alleged drug peddler has been killed in a "shootout" with members of Rapid Action Battalion in Gazipur's Tongi upazila.

The cyclone Amphan destroyed a number of households and vast tract of cropland. It also crushed the last strands of hope for many vegetable farmers in Kalapara upazila of the district amid ithe Covid-19 pandemic.

Waterlogging disrupts crop cultivation on over a thousand acres of land in a shallow waterbody at Pashchimchak in between Ahmedpur and Raninagar unions in Pabna’s Sujanagar upazila.

Bangladesh, being a major labour-exporting country, should raise its voice to realise the unpaid dues of the country’s migrant workers, many of whom have been repatriated arbitrarily in wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, migration experts and advocacy groups have said.

The government has waived late fines till December 31 this year for vehicle owners and drivers who failed to update their documents on time.

Economists and activists opined that Tk 11,000 crore in additional revenues could be raised from the tobacco sector if the proposed tax and price measures from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and anti-tobacco activists were adopted.

A ninth grader in Mymensingh has been arrested for making a Facebook post allegedly defaming Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and later sent to the Juvenile Correction Center in Gazipur.

A virtual court in Dhaka today rejected a bail petition of Al Amin alias Parvez, a member of a gang -- linked to the trafficking of 26 Bangladeshis killed in Libya on May 28 -- in a case filed with Khilgaon Police Station.

Nur Mohammad Mazumder, an additional secretary to the Road Transport and Highway division, has been appointed as the chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA).

The incumbent committee of Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) is supposed to be dissolved as their extended 90-day tenure ends today but its vice president has asked for further extension.

A 35-year-old man is killed in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion in Ashulia of Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.

Three fishermen were arrested on Saturday while they were trying to fish using poison in the Pashur River in the Sundarbans.

As we are living in the age of digitization, activism to bring about a change often remains confined in the virtual world but back in the 1950s, activism meant raising your voice and your hand in the air -- rendering powerful slogans and songs against injustice and unjust establishment. Kamal Lohani was a perfect example of that take-to-the-streets activism.

The High Court has refused to grant bail to Bogura's Sramik League convenor Tufan Sarker in a sensational case filed for abducting and raping a female student and torturing her mother in 2017.

Brac University is creating an online learning platform that is built on a world-class platform developed by MIT and Harvard -- named ‘buX’.

Dhaka Bar Association (DBA) has appealed to Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) to take necessary measures to ensure treatment for coronavirus-infected members and their families at six hospitals in the capital.

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed yesterday said every union parishad will be marked as a police beat to take services to people's doorsteps.