The shop owners in North Dhaka have to vacate any public spaces that they are occupying illegally around their businesses within a month, said Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Annisul Huq yesterday.

Mother, Mahfuza Maleq alias Jesmin, confesses to killing her two minor children who were found dead in Dhaka’s Banasree area on February 29, according to Rapid Action Battalion.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued an arrest warrant against 41 leaders and activists of BNP-led alliance, including Rafiqul Islam Mia and Khandker Mahbub

Dhaka Power Distribution Company Ltd (DPDC) during a special taskforce drive in different parts of the capital detected 3.75 lakh units of power pilferage and realised Tk 62.46 lakh in fine yesterday, said a press release.

A Santal man, Alfred Marandy, who disappeared while travelling to Kashiani in Gopalganj on February 25 to see his family, has still been missing.

Bangladesh’s first ever female commander, Col Dr Nazma Begum of Bangladesh Army, departs for a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Ivory Coast.

Customs officials recovered eight gold bars, weighing 1kg and worth Tk 40 lakh, from the rectum of a passenger of a

An inmate died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday.

Around 200 stray dogs were vaccinated against six viruses including rabbis, rotavirus and influenza in a campaign

BNP yesterday alleged that the Election Commission was trying to reduce the number of law enforcers in the polling centres to facilitate

Daily Star Senior Reporter Ashutosh Sarkar was elected president and BSS Senior Reporter Didarul Alam general

Najmul Islam, 24, of Kukhapara in Nilphamari, is suffering from cancer, says a press release.

Seven more students are injured at Dhaka’s Titumir College as alleged “muscle show” of Bangladesh Chhatra League continues at campus and its halls.

AKN Ahmed, former governor of Bangladesh Bank, died following a stroke in the US yesterday, aged 85.

While over 3,000 families of garbage pickers at the capital's Matuail landfill site are doing the important task of

After a brief reopening, the Ekushey book fair was shut again for today due to disruption of power connection. The concerned authorities took the decision of shutting down the fair from 6:30pm today as they could not provide power connection to the bookstalls.

Drivers of CNG-run auto-rickshaws stopped plying their vehicles on the Chittagong University campus for two hours yesterday,

The Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers' Association yesterday extended the suspension of the indefinite work stoppage for

A cleaner of Eastern Bank was found dead in its office in Motijheel yesterday.

Agitating students of Government Titumir College in the capital formed a human chain and brought out rallies on the college campus