British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Gibson yesterday described as 'a great shame' the failure to fully and clearly investigate the allegations of irregularities during the elections to Dhaka North, Dhaka South and Chittagong City Corporations on April 28. He also reiterated the United…

For  Ajimon Begum, child labour is a fact of life. “My husband left me and our three children for another woman. If I don’t send my eight-year-old child to work in a balloon factory, I'll not be able to feed my two younger children otherwise,” she told The Independent. Ajimon…

The second day of the one-off Test between Bangladesh and India was called off without a ball being bowled yesterday at Fatullah Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium due to heavy monsoon rain. The intervention of the nature in the game came as a severe blow for the India who were in driving seat and trying…

At least eight bodies were found and 20 people went missing after a trawler overcrowded with passengers capsized in the Meghna River in Monpura upazila of Bhola yesterday noon. According to police and Coast Guard sources, said the trawler of one Noium Majhi left Kalatolir Char for Monpura upazila headquarters…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leaves for London on a six-day visit to the United Kingdom today, reports UNB. A VVIP flight (BG-001) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying the Prime Minister and her entourage is scheduled to take off from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for the British capital at…