Bangladesh Police have been instructed to identify and take strict action against the alleged masterminds behind drug networks and teenage gangs, Additional Inspector General Md Sayedur Rahman said on Tuesday.
British finance minister John Healey will announce on Wednesday plans to increase the minimum wage by nearly 4 percent, the Times reported on Monday.
Bangladeshi migrant workers unable to return to Saudi Arabia on schedule due to widespread flight disruptions will be permitted to enter the kingdom even if their residency permits, known as Iqamas, expire in the interim.
The director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Prof Kazi Ahmed Zaki has accused members of the BNP-backed Doctors Association of Bangladesh (DAB) of assaulting him inside his office.
At least 64 people died when two Spanish high-speed trains collided on Wednesday, with rescue workers scouring the wreckage for more bodies after Spain's second deadly rail accident this year.
Bangladesh and Japan will seek to deepen cooperation when Prime Minister Tarique Rahman meets his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo, with trade, investment and international issues on the agenda.
The plans were taking shape. Meetings had mapped out the celebrations, a commemorative publication was in the works, and the event’s design was being finalised. Editor-in-Chief Toufique Imrose Khalidi had chosen a motto for the occasion: “First, Free, Fearless -- 20 Years On...”
Azharul Islam came to Chattogram from Netrokona several years ago with his family in search of a better life. Working as a day labourer, he recently bought two cows in his village and was returning home with his wife and children to start a new livelihood.
Maya Gourdel, a 19-year-old student in Brussels, sits at a desk writing slogans against those running her country: “If we burn, you burn with us!” The slogan, taken from the 2012 film "The Hunger Games" that has been adopted as a symbol by many youth movements globally, reflects ...