Mercantile Bank has sent a rejoinder to a report titled “Cash incentive rules flouted” published in The Daily Star on February 27.

He joined the Public Works Department as a gardener in 1984. But unlike his co-workers, the class-IV employee saw a dramatic change in his fortunes in the last one decade.

Even a single death due to accident is too many. So the statistics that there have been only two major aviation disasters in Bangladesh in the last 33 years are only of trivial importance. A tragedy in which 51 people died puts countries into a collective bereavement.

Almun Nahar Annie, one of the survivors, had been refusing to go back to Bangladesh. Last night though, she finally changed her mind. Annie lost her husband FH Priok and their only child Tamarra in the BS211 crash. What does she have to go back to?

The first Bangladeshi survivor of the US-Bangla disaster in Kathmandu returned home yesterday. Straight from the airport, Shahreen Ahmed, who was undergoing treatment at the Kathmandu Medical College Hospital since Monday's crash, was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital's burn unit.

As the non-cooperation movement entered its third week, peaceful agitations continued as all offices and business places remained

Myanmar has only been able to verify 374 Rohingya Muslim refugees for possible repatriation from Bangladesh, officials said

Mushfiqur Rahim fought a courageous battle, but found little support from the other end as Bangladesh conceded a 17-run defeat against India in their reverse fixture of the Nidahas Trophy at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed till Sunday the High Court order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia

British physicist Stephen Hawking, whose mental genius and physical disability made him a household name and inspiration across the

On March 13, a day after the worst civil aviation disaster of the country, a Bangladesh Biman plane was getting ready to land at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport, the scene of the crash.

A flurry of activity outside the main gate of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital alerted journalists to something happening soon. Within moments, an ambulance drove towards the forensic department and a few worried people -- relatives of the Monday's air crash victims -- hustled hoping to have a glimpse of their departed loved ones.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday instructed the civil aviation authorities to give highest priority to flight safety and maintenance of planes of carriers.

The Anti-Corruption Commission and the government filed two petitions with the Supreme Court yesterday seeking stay on the High Court order that granted bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

The international community, including the UN, has failed to protect the Rohingyas in Rakhine where they faced atrocity crimes, Adama Dieng, UN special adviser on the prevention of genocide, said yesterday.

Prithula Rashid, co-pilot of the US Bangla aircraft that crashed in Nepal on Monday, lived out the dream of her parents, a dream that she too had embraced as a child; she grew up to be a pilot.

Donald Trump yesterday sacked his top diplomat Rex Tillerson and named current CIA chief Mike Pompeo to succeed him, ending a rocky tenure by the Texas oilman who had been sidelined on the world stage by the mercurial president.

With the nation reeling from the shock of Monday's tragic plane crash in Kathmandu, two more injured passengers of the ill-fated US-Bangla flight reportedly died yesterday, taking the death toll to 51.

Confusion, buck-passing, and guessing are all what went on yesterday, a day after a US-Bangla aircraft crash-landed in Nepal to claim 51, 28 of them Bangladeshis.

This is the deadliest civil aviation disaster in Bangladesh's history. At least 49 people, including 26 Bangladeshis, were killed when an US-Bangla flight from Dhaka crashed in Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport yesterday.