Robbie Frylinck, the 34-year all-rounder from South Africa, made his presence felt in the very first match of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) with a four-wicket haul and again shone with the bat and ball in the second game, but yesterday the gigantic man did

A female ready-made garment worker was allegedly raped at Rupganj in Narayanganj early Friday.

Hefajat-e Islam chief Shah Ahmed Shafi yesterday made parents promise that they won't send their daughters to school.

In front of the largest crowd of the sixth edition of the Bangladesh Premier League so far, Dhaka Dynamites' little-known off-spinner Aliss Al Islam took a hattrick on debut to halt Rangpur Riders' seemingly inexorable march in chase of a184-run target at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.

In a flagrant violation of international law, Myanmar has been building a concrete structure in the no-man's land on its border with Bangladesh in Bandarban's Ghumdhum area.

The administration together with the law enforcement agencies played a role to influence the December 30 polls outcome in favour of the ruling Awami League, the Left Democratic Alliance candidates have alleged.

Good news for cross-border cruise lovers. Your dream of travelling between Bangladesh and India, while also enjoying the beauty of the mystic Sundarbans and the lush green dots of riverine Bangladesh, is about to come true.

For the fifth consecutive day, Bangladesh’s garments workers are pursuing protests over “disparity” in their new wage structure.

The overall human rights situation last year was extremely alarming, Ain o Salish Kendra has said.

Urging BNP to find out the reasons behind its defeat in the last general election, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said a party that failed to mobilise people for a movement cannot win public support in the election fray.

Claiming the December 30 election to be “farcical”, Jatiya Oikyafront Convener Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday called for a national dialogue to find out ways for holding a fresh election as per the constitution.

The Farmers Bank has sent a rejoinder to The Daily Star report “Farmers Bank: Dramatic rise in loan default” published on December 21.

A court in the Philippines yesterday convicted a former branch manager at Manila-based Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) of money laundering, in the first conviction over the Bangladesh Bank reserves heist in which $81 million was stolen nearly three years ago.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced a man to seven years' imprisonment for “distorting” photographs of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Two men who allegedly killed two five-year-old girls on Monday had lured the children to a flat offering them lipsticks, police said, adding, the culprits wanted to rape them.

Frequent clashes between Myanmar security forces and Buddhist rebels in Rakhine state have spread alarm among thousands of Rohingya refugees living in no-man's-land on the country's border with Bangladesh, as concerns grow over the intensified fighting.

The historic Homecoming Day of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is being observed today.

Garment workers' protests over disparity in their new wage structure once again turned violent yesterday as they clashed with law enforcers and vandalised some factories and vehicles in Savar, Ashulia and Gazipur -- the apparel manufacturing hub of the country.

Anger and frustration among workers of BRTC depots have long been growing over their unpaid salaries, which remain due for up to 16 months in some cases.

The Saudi authorities yesterday deported to Bangladesh at least 13 Rohingyas, who had travelled to the kingdom with Bangladeshi passports several years back.