The month of self-abnegation, purification and spiritual salvation begins today. Devotees abstain from food or drink from dawn to dusk and devote in intense prayer seeking mercy and guidance from the Almighty.

Business leaders have expressed concern on the proposed imposition of 4 percent value added tax (VAT) on e-commerce sales.

In a legal process spanning nearly five years, Jamaat-e-Islami's secretary general and former minister Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed has been handed the death penalty.

According to the National Human Rights Commissioner, about 70 percent of all complaints of violation of human rights received by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) are against law enforcers, and half of all these complaints are allegations of torture by members of the law enforcing agencies.

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal (BBIN) have mapped out a plan of action that will pave the way for movement of passenger and cargo vehicles across their borders.

A study by this paper has found that 82 percent of rape victims are under the age of 20, many of them minors. More than half of the victims were schoolgirls who were raped on their way to or from school. About twenty-two percent were sexually abused at home.

A flood is raging in the north and northeastern part of the country, badly affecting the lives of thousands.

Despite the government's pledge to adopt a zero tolerance for violence against women and children, there has not been significant progress in the ground realities.

Finance minister's proposed 10 percent value added tax (VAT) on around 160 private sector universities including medical and engineering colleges has not found favour with those who have been targeted.

We cannot agree entirely with the view that road accidents and the resultant deaths do not elicit enough public reaction.

We are deeply concerned about the thousands of families living at risk of landslides in the hill regions in Chittagong. It is unfortunate

This is not the first time that the minister for social welfare has come into news for all the wrong reasons. His latest act of utter

It is unacceptable that a capital city of a fast-growing nation should all but collapse with a few hours of rain due to water-logging.

According to a report in a leading Bangla daily Boro farmers are being deprived of rational prices for their paddy.

An investigative report by this paper has unraveled the horrifying sexual abuse of Rohingya women while they make their perilous trips at sea.

Underage children working in developing countries has been a harsh reality for many years and Bangladesh is no exception.

Most ministries and divisions of the government fail to utilise the full financial allocation made to them annually.

It is disquieting to note that the Carriage and Wagon Repair Workshop of Bangladesh Railway's East Zone has been in a ramshackle state for more than a decade.

Following the arrests of nine suspected operatives of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) and Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) the police has revealed the formation of an umbrella organisation 'Bangladesh Jihadi Group' that has come up with a new way to raise funds for religious militancy: through bank heists.

The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Control, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) has formulated a special cereal made from local ingredients that will help address severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children.