However, growing global scrutiny and an upcoming visit to the U.S. could be forcing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to go slow on cracking down on the media. With general elections due early next ...

Bail order reaches Keraniganj jail, Shams to 'be released soon' Prothom Alo reporter Samsuzzaman Shams is likely to be released soon as the bail order in a case filed against him reached Dhaka ...

A Prothom Alo staff member in Mymensingh was abducted and subjected to ransom demands by a group of miscreants on Thursday night. The victim, Abul Bashar, is the regional circulation manager of ...

On 29 March, Bangladeshi journalist Shamsuzzaman Shams was picked up from his residence by a group in civil clothes that identified as the Criminal Investigations Department for an online article he ...