Born in 1955 in Khulna, in what was then East Pakistan, Mokammel studied at Dhaka University and worked as a Left-wing ...

The fire that broke out in a house in Old Dhaka’s Islambagh on Saturday afternoon, February 15, has been brought under ...

A fire broke out in a house in Old Dhaka’s Islambagh on Saturday afternoon, February 15. The fire was reported around 3:15pm and later, eight units of the firefighters rushed to the spot and were ...

Communal bathing houses are an indispensable part of Karwan Bazar, serving day labourers, rickshaw pullers, hawkers, and market loaders who lack proper sanitation facilities at home. And for ...

It said a total of eight firefighting units – two each from Lalbagh, Hazaribagh, Palashi, and Siddiqbazar stations – were at the scene working to douse the flames. No casualties were reported ...

Hundreds of aspiring primary school teachers staged a sit-in protest on Thursday at the Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka to ...

The U.N. human rights office estimates that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over six weeks last summer in a crackdown on student-led protests against the now-ousted former prime ...

Most of the world's population is exposed to polluted air and or those living in cities with chronically bad air, the smog ...

Police in Bangladesh have arrested more than 1,500 people since Saturday amid reports of mob violence across the country and a security crackdown.  The arrests came six months after Bangladesh's ...

In a notable achievement, Faruque Hossain, also known as Shuvo, the lead guitarist of the legendary Bangladeshi band Vikings, has become the first artist from S ...

Bangladesh has objected to a speech that its ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina made from India and asked New Delhi to stop ...

An intelligence official in Dhaka told The Associated Press that there were reports ... in a statemen on Thursday condemned ...