The penultimate phase of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) closed with Shakib Al Hasan's Dhaka Dynamites becoming the last team to ensure a spot in the final four following a six-wicket win over Khulna Titans in the final match of the group phase at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.

Once built two decades from now, the five metro rail lines costing around $27.6 billion would serve only 11.5 percent of city passengers, said experts citing the capital's transport master plan.

Construction of the country's first underground railway may start in July with funds from Japan. Named MRT Line-1, this track will link the capital's airport and Kamalapur. It will also have an elevated part to connect Purbachal with Notun Bazar. The project deadline is 2026.

The Election Commission yesterday rejected the nomination papers of Jatiya Party nominated mayoral candidate Shafin Ahmed for the Dhaka North City Corporation by-polls because he had defaulted on bank loans.

With the help of Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bangladesh yesterday launched a legal battle to recover the full amount stolen from its central bank's reserve.

The Jatiya Oikyafront leaders will not attend the prime minister's tea party today.

Police yesterday recovered another body of a rape suspect with a note hanging round his neck in Jhalakathi's Rajapur upazila, the third one since the recent turn of events.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon the new generation to know the real history of the nation that had earned the independence and right to speak in their mother tongue through huge sacrifices and struggles.

Locals yesterday formed a human chain on Natore-Rajshahi highway demanding release of a former Chhatra League leader who was allegedly picked up by law enforcers in the early hours of the same day.

Shakib al Hasan's Dhaka Dynamites seem to have lost the spark with which they began the sixth edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) as they lost their fifth consecutive match at the business end of the tournament yesterday.

Depending entirely on the autopsy report, detectives had been claiming that Nilufa Akhter died by suicide in February 2016. The focus of Nilufa's case had shifted to suicide from murder after police got the forensic results.

The gangs that had been leaking questions of public exams and government recruitment tests included government officials, schoolteachers, printing press employees and Dhaka University students.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government's goal was to ensure equal rights for all, irrespective of their religion and caste.

The Corruption Perceptions Index released by the Transparency International on Tuesday provides food for thought on corruption and democracy.

A second grader was allegedly raped by her neighbour in Jashore's Jhikargachha upazila on Tuesday.

The month-long Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela 2019, the country's largest book fair, is set to commence today at the Bangla Academy premises and the adjacent Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital, with a record number of 499 publishers participating this year.

No matter how much you grumble about that call suddenly going dead, the situation is unlikely to improve anytime soon.

The BNP yesterday alleged that the current parliament has not been formed with people's mandate and demanded re-election under a neutral administration.

Calling upon all to forge national unity on the basic issues, President Abdul Hamid yesterday said peace and prosperity could not be given a permanent shape without it.

Bangladesh Bank Governor Fazle Kabir said the central bank was expected to file a lawsuit yesterday night with a US court against Philippines' Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) to recover the full amount stolen in the February, 2016 heist.