During their ‘historic visit’ to Bangladesh, Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany and Laurent Fabius, Foreign Minister of the French Republic yesterday inaugurated the first ever Franco-German embassy in Dhaka. The two European Foreign Ministers…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has dismissed accusations that democracy and rule of law are being undermined by her “increasingly authoritarian behaviour”…

Huge traffic congestion on highways, especially on the Dhaka-Tangail highway, caused immense sufferings to the home going passengers and transport workers…

The Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Department (CIID) yesterday recovered a huge consignment of Indian currency worth 2,71,72,500 stuffed inside four petty cartons from a container that was seized on Sunday evening on suspicion of containing illicit currency. The intelligence department…

At least eight people were killed in Bandarban and Chittagong after heavy rain since Saturday triggered landslides in the hills. A woman and her child were buried alive when their house collapsed under landslides following 31mm of rainfall, in Chttagong city’s Baizid area below a hill, yesterday…

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Mizanur Rahman yesterday said the policemen, who are accused of killing protesters in Kalihati of Tangail, should be tried under the penal code. “The withdrawal of accused cops who fired on peaceful protesters cannot be a punishment. They should…