Despite being sick, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was forced to appear before a makeshift court inside the city's old central jail on September 5, her lawyer Zainul Abedin alleged yesterday.

This Padma is not the river they know. At Naria of Shariatpur, 20km from the Padma Bridge construction site, it has changed abruptly for sure. Once relatively calm and quiet in the area, it turned into an all-devouring river in just a few years.

Dr Mong Sano Marma initiated the genome sequencing and proposed it to Prof Haseena Khan, who led the research. Mong also convinced his neighbour in the US, Dr Peter Ianakiev, who facilitated the genome sequencing at his research organisation for free.

A road safety campaigner was placed on a day's remand for interrogation hours after he was arrested early yesterday in a case over extortion, a charge his wife and fellow campaigners termed “false”.

The International Criminal Court ruled yesterday it has jurisdiction over alleged deportations of Rohingya people from Myanmar to Bangladesh as a possible crime against humanity.

Sanaul Haque, project director of Gazipur-airport Bus Rapid Transit, has sent a rejoinder to The Daily Star report headlined “Airport-Gazipur BRT Line: Cost doubles, 20pc progress in 6 years” published on August 26.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday expressed a lack of confidence in the special court trying the Zia Charitable Trust graft case against her after she was produced before it inside the old Dhaka central jail.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said democracy was established on a strong base in the country as her government ensured people's voting rights.

Researchers at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology have found a low-cost method for early detection of cancer.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed two separate cases against a police superintendent and his wife on charges of amassing wealth of over Tk 3.49 crore through bribery and other corrupt means.

A High Court bench yesterday felt “embarrassed” to hear the bail petition of noted photographer Shahidul Alam in a case filed for “spreading propaganda and false information against the government”.

The trial in the Zia Charitable Trust graft case filed against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and three others is to be held today inside Dhaka Old Central Jail at Nazimuddin Road, where Khaleda has been serving jail in another case.

She walked barefoot most of her life as she would not step with footwear on the soil where her two sons and hundreds of thousands of Liberation War martyrs were laid to rest.

Chief Election Commissioner KM Nurul Huda yesterday said it is quite natural that there would be some concern among the political parties about the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs).

The government yesterday approved a draft of the Bangladesh Labour (Amendment) Act, 2018 to make it workers-friendly in line with the suggestion of the international communities.

The Myanmar military issues a rare apology, acknowledging that two photographs it published in a book on the crisis over the Rohingya Muslim minority were "published incorrectly".

When the SAFF Championship kicks off at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) today, the onus will be on the home footballers to draw the fans to the country's premier venue, once regarded as the theatre of dreams for Bangladesh football.

Devoid of the whims, high-handedness and the Cold War propositions of the bilateral and multilateral donors, smaller countries had found a new source of financing in China. Its funds could be easily tapped without being imposed with the harsh conditions like those of the World Bank and the IMF

The Bangladesh Embassy in Saudi Arabia yesterday suspended two of its employees following allegations that they sexually exploited a woman when she was staying at an embassy-run shelter in Riyadh.

A police sub-inspector lost his life in a rather unusual road accident in the capital's Mirpur area yesterday as his motorbike was hit by a seized bus being brought to a police station.