It was probably not the kind of start Bangladesh captain Shakib Al Hasan had hoped for as Afghanistan batsman Rahmat Shah struck a magnificent century to thwart any plans of domination the Tigers may have had the opening day of the one-off Test in Chattogram

Bangladesh cricket has not been in the best of states both on and off the field since a disappointing exit from the ICC World Cup in England, which was followed by a humiliating one-day series defeat in Sri Lanka. The Tigers will however try to put all those forlorn

A policeman was held allegedly for attempting to snatch Tk 10.5 lakh from a businessman in Dhaka’s Motijheel area yesterday. The detainee is Al Mamun, 38, constable of Bangshal Police Station.

Slow pace of data collection by field officials is holding back the Roads and Highways Department’s (RHD) initiative to create a database for automatically assessing the condition of bridges and culverts and suggesting remedial actions.

Same product, same sample, same batch. But take them to two different government labs for analysis, the results will vary by up to 766 percent or about nine times.

The index of Dhaka Stock Exchange has come down a step further breaching the 5,000-point psychological barrier after consecutive declines in the last five trading days.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed the authorities concerned to collect toll from long-haul vehicles plying the national highways, Planning Minister MA Mannan said yesterday.

At least 73 suspicious applications were uploaded to the Election Commission database for issuing national identity cards, a government committee has found while probing the forged NID card of a Rohingya woman in Chattogram.

A number of accused in the Rifat murder case yesterday vented their frustration inside and outside the courtroom, asking why local Awami League lawmaker’s son Sunam Debnath was not named in the case.

To stop Rohingya refugees from using mobile phones, the BTRC and carriers yesterday decided to halt sale of SIM cards in Ukhia and Teknaf upazilas of Cox’s Bazar until further notice.

The cabinet yesterday approved a draft law that would allow the government to use “idle funds” of state-owned organisations for development work. There are 68 state-owned autonomous organisation which have Tk 2,12,100 crore deposited in banks, said Cabinet Secretary

International oil companies will now be able to export gas explored from Bangladesh’s offshore blocks in the Bay. The government has reintroduced the provision for export of gas by the drilling companies in the Offshore Model PSC 2019. This will not be applicable for onshore blocks.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has dubbed the updated final NRC as a “fiasco” and said it has exposed all those who are trying to gain “political mileage” from the exercise.

Saturday night’s bomb attack on police near the capital’s Science Lab intersection was possibly a test case before a big attack, a senior minister said yesterday.

Police yesterday pressed charges against Ayesha Siddika Minni and 23 others for alleged involvement in the daylight murder of her husband Rifat Sharif in Barguna, an incident that triggered a huge public outcry across the country.

Two policemen, including a security detail of LGRD Minister Tazul Islam, were injured when a bomb went off at Science Lab intersection last night.

A 15-year-old schoolgirl has allegedly died by suicide following harassment by a stalker in Pirojpur’s Bhandaria upazila.

The government had suspended activities of 41 non-government organisations operating in the Rohingya camps for their involvement in various “misdeeds”, said Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said he does not think those excluded from the final list of Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) are Bangladeshis.

Now that the final National Register of Citizens in Assam has come out, the lives of more than 1.9 million people excluded from it stand to be affected. They will be looking at an uncertain future. The questions being asked: who the excluded are now and what will