An intellectually-challenged child was raped allegedly by her neighbour on Wednesday while a suspended Jubo League leader, who was arrested for raping a housewife, was sued in another rape case in Noakhali.

How crooked can a cop get?

Jatiya Party (JP) founder and late president Hussain Muhammad Ershad has been regarded a dictator, though he never admitted it, till his death. Even the current leadership of the party does not acknowledge it. Now, his younger brother Golam Mohammed Quader has been made party chairman.

In a country where political divisions go deep down, he was one of the very few personalities from any profession who was trusted by all sides of the political spectrum. It speaks volumes of his wisdom, sagacity, impartiality and sense of fairness that political archrivals sought his legal counsel in situations of crisis.

The government is aggressively seeking financial assistance from development partners to procure Covid-19 vaccine as soon as it hits markets.

The World Bank joined hands with Brac to implement a programme to halve fatalities on roads by 2030.

A Rohingya teenage boy was killed in a landmine explosion on the Myanmar side of the border along Bandarban on Friday afternoon, said police.

The government is set to start the process of giving students of classes 6 to 9 assignments from November 1 in the absence of annual examinations.

The deep depression formed in the Bay of Bengal made landfall around noon yesterday, causing moderate to heavy rain across the country.

Beijing on Thursday informed Dhaka about Myanmar’s assurances of taking back the Rohingyas.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged 20 major industrialised nations to be united to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged the United Nations to play a more decisive and robust role in resolving existing global challenges, including the Rohingya crisis.

US President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden offered sharply contrasting views on the still-raging coronavirus pandemic at Thursday’s final presidential debate, seeking to persuade the few remaining undecided voters ahead of November 3 election day.

All banks and mobile financial service (MFS) providers will have to introduce the financial interoperability system by March 31 to help clients transfer money within the financial institutions.

The payment disbursed but the work not done -- this appears to have become a common practice at the IEM unit of DGFP.

The indefinite work abstention announced by water transport workers was withdrawn yesterday evening after a meeting at the labour ministry in Dhaka.

In view of the virtual absence of all opposition political activities due to Covid-19, we have decided to run a series of interviews of political party leaders who are not in the government-led alliance.

Heavy rains, induced by a depression formed in the Bay of Bengal, disrupted regular life of people across the country yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the authorities concerned to bring drivers under a dope testing system to know whether they abuse drugs.

The village is named after its highest hill, Rangapahar, but the natural landmark no longer exists.