The colourful balloons attracted children from the shanties of the slum across the street.

A new research shows coastal flooding will hit nearly 42 million people in Bangladesh by 2050, meaning that the situation is likely to be worse than what was feared earlier.

Eid-e-Miladunnabi, the day of birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), will be observed in the country on November 10 as the moon of Rabiul Awal was sighted in Bangladesh sky yesterday.

Even three years after arson attacks and vandalism on the homes and temples of Hindus in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar upazila, those responsible are still to face any punishment as the investigations of most of the cases are yet to be complete.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed two cases against expelled Jubo League office secretary Kazi Anisur Rahman and his wife Sumi Rahman for amassing about Tk 14 crore beyond known sources of income.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government launched a massive anti-graft campaign ignoring the backgrounds of the suspects.

On their return from the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, abused female migrant workers often face intimidation and injustice during government arbitration at home.

Let’s face facts first: Bangladesh cricket’s biggest icon ever, Shakib Al Hasan, has been banned by the game’s governing body for two years for not reporting a bookie’s approach on three separate occasions.

Bangladesh cricket was rocked to its foundations last evening when the International Cricket Council (ICC) informed that it had banned Shakib Al Hasan from all forms of cricket for two years for not informing the ICC’s anti-corruption unit (ACU) of three separate approaches by a bookmaker seeking match information.

Four people have been sued for raping a two-year-old and a fifth-grader in Bagerhat and Thakurgaon.

Irregularities in the overseas jobs sector are making migrant workers go undocumented and are even contributing to the closing of labour markets, said Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed on Sunday.

Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon said he was sorry for the “confusion” created over his recent comments about the December 30 parliamentary polls.

Computer engineering and IT graduates have a higher job placement rate than any other graduates in the country’s job market, a recent study found.

Protesting teachers and students of Jahangirnagar University began a strike yesterday demanding the vice-chancellor’s removal.

In the space of five days, Bangladesh Test and T20I skipper Shakib Al Hasan went from being the leader in a players’ strike to improve the status of the country’s cricketers to plunging the national team’s plans into uncertainty on the eve of an important tour of India.

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) in January 2013 made its biggest recruitment in recent times, 149 people, including 50 vehicle inspectors.

A woman was allegedly gang-raped, first by a group of four men in front of her two-year-old son and then by a Chhatra League leader who “rescued” her from the four, at Monpura upazila in Bhola on Saturday evening.

Academic activities at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology are yet to resume even three weeks after Abrar Fahad’s murder.

Dhaka Water Supply & Sewerage Authority has issued a rejoinder against a report headlined “JS body blasts Wasa boss for utility’s failure” published in The Daily Star on October 21.

Two workers were killed and seven others injured as the roof of an under-construction building collapsed at Barapukuria coalmine site in Dinajpur yesterday.