The High Court yesterday questioned the legality of the Bangladesh Energy Commission's move to raise power tariff at wholesale and retail.

Marooned on a dusty slope in the world's largest refugee camp, Osiur Rahman looked to the hill where a Rohingya girl was buried in a landslide just days earlier and contemplated his chances should the earth give way beneath his feet.

Egypt's Mohamed Salah is "confident" of being fit for the World Cup despite suffering a shoulder injury in Liverpool's Champions League final defeat against Real Madrid.

The 11th edition of the Indian Premier League came to an end yesterday with Shane Watson striking a sublime century to power Chennai Super Kings to their third trophy with an eight-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the final at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

Chemical or DNA tests must be conducted in all rape or sexual assault cases, and the DNA and other samples should be sent to lab within 48 hours of the occurrence.

It was 1:30pm. Some 1,000 policemen started gathering near Karwan Bazar kitchen market in the capital yesterday. The mobilisation of so many cops drew a huge crowd, curious to know what was happening.

Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) has prepared a list of 2,446 dealers and addicts of yaba, heroin and other contraband substances.

The noted human rights activist said the law enforcement agencies' actions would not provide a sustainable solution against illegal drugs.

A ward councillor of Teknaf municipality and local Awami League leader was killed in what Rab claimed was a “gunfight” between the elite force and drug peddlers in Cox's Bazar early yesterday.

Dinajpur police sent a rejoinder on April 11, 2018 to a report published in The Daily Star on February 5 under the headline “Why police so ruthless to us?” also an editorial titled “Double victimisation of a rape survivour!” on February 6.

Fans eager to see Brazil's penultimate practice session before the squad leave for World Cup warm-up games in Europe invaded the training ground on Friday, although police stopped them reaching the players, witnesses and news reports said.

A woman gave birth to a baby girl under the open sky near Amtoli Mosque beside the Dhaka-Chittagong highway at 4:00pm yesterday.

Born and brought up in Chhoba Patti in Dhaka's Gendaria, Rahima used to sell small packets of ganja and heroin inside the squalid slum. Two decades down the line, she now owns at least 10 buildings, moves around in luxurious cars and has big, fat bank accounts.

There seems to be no end in sight of the “gunfights” that are leaving alleged drug peddlers killed during the ongoing anti-narcotics drive across the country.

Around 300 Rab personnel from different battalions with dog squads and a bomb disposal unit cordoned off the Geneva Camp in Mohammadpur yesterday morning.

On Friday, two prime ministers and a chief minister shared the stage for four hours at Shantiniketan, the institution set up by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. But in the end, silence spoke the loudest.

Fazlur Rahman never worries about carrying cash in Rajshahi but he remains cautious. When he needs money for paying workers' wages at his Rahman Jute Spinners Private Ltd, he sends more than one official to withdraw the cash from a bank in the city. They carry it in a vehicle back to his factory 12 kilometres away at Mahendra.

The first ever use of tablet computers delivering real-time player data to coaches during World Cup matches next month is a useful tool that will make teams more flexible, Germany team manager Oliver Bierhoff said on Friday.

The two anti-terrorism special tribunals formed last month for quick trial of militancy and terrorism cases are working at a snail's pace, thanks to only a handful of cases transferred to the tribunals and shortages of courtrooms and manpower.

In the port city, there are over 300 spots where peddlers have been selling drugs, including yaba, for years dodging the law enforcers, according to Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) officials.