Around 1,000 women workers have returned home from Saudi Arabia in the past five months, unable to withstand the physical and mental tortured by their employers. Many are waiting at safe houses and different jails there to get back to Bangladesh. The women went to Saudi Arabia with dreams of changing…

A contract was signed between Bangladesh Railway and a Bangladeshi-Chinese consortiumon yesterday to conduct a feasibility study and detailed design for the much-hyped 'Dhaka-Chattogram via Cumilla-Laksam High Speed Railway Project'. The contract was signed at Rail Bhaban between the government…

A total of 323 people were killed in different incidents across the country during the month of May, according to a survey prepared by Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (BHRC), reports UNB. BHRC published the report yesterday based on reports gathered from different districts, upazilas, municipalities…

Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said many popular media personalities would get party tickets for contesting the next general elections, scheduled to be held at the end of the year. “There’ll be surprises while distributing AL nominations this time. Many popular…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a top North Korean official were set to continue talks in New York yesterday to try to salvage next month's…

A Manhattan grand jury Wednesday indicted Harvey Weinstein on rape and sex crime charges, the next step in efforts by prosecutors to bring the disgraced Hollywood mogul to trial for alleged sex crimes, reports AFP from New York. The 66-year-old was initially charged last week in what was hailed a landmark…