Former AB Bank chairman M Wahidul Haque yesterday claimed that the bank had mistakenly sent Tk 165 crore to a bank in the United Arab Emirates, said an ACC official.

Myanmar plans to begin the repatriation of its nationals from Bangladesh on January 22 with a group of 450 Hindu refugees. A refugee camp has been set up at Taungpyoleiwei in northwestern Rakhine State for those returning overland from Bangladesh, and a second one at Ngakhuya in Maungdaw Township for those returning by sea or waterways.

The United Nations' independent investigator into human rights in Myanmar has called for international pressure on China and Russia to try to get them to oppose human rights abuses in Myanmar.

Lawyers of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday argued in court that no money was embezzled from Zia Orphanage Trust, rather the amount in the fund has increased to Tk 6 crore from Tk 2.33 crore.

Two trainer aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) crashed at Maheshkhali upazila in Cox's Bazar yesterday evening.

A senior counsel of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday pleaded with a Dhaka court to acquit her in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

The US government has announced significant cuts in its United Nations budget obligations for 2018-19 in what will be interpreted as a further ratcheting up of pressure from the Trump administration looking to bend decision-making at the international body to its will.

Two individuals and five local IT firms have been awarded by The Daily Star and Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services for their outstanding contribution to the country's fast growing ICT industry.

The prosecution in the August 21 attack cases yesterday told a Dhaka court that BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman had assured Huji leader Mufti Abdul Hannan and his accomplices of all administrative assistance in carrying out the grenade attack on an Awami League rally in 2004.

The Election Commission plans to hold the Dhaka North City Corporation mayoral by-polls in late February with the two major political parties expected to nominate candidates soon.

Police yesterday arrested an expelled BCL leader who allegedly raped six women and circulated video clips of the incidents among locals

The Halda river, the lone source of natural carp breeding in South Asia, lost 26 of its fish species in the past seven years because of

In the first nine months of this year, more than 60 percent of the accused got acquitted in drug-related cases, and narcotics control officials blame the poor conviction rate mainly on the faulty charge sheets and a lack of witnesses. The scenarios were almost similar in the previous two years.

The lawyer of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday argued that none of the 32 witnesses in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case could testify that she had abused power when she was in office.

Police yesterday admitted that they failed to timely record as well as begin investigation into the rape of four women of a family during a robbery in Chittagong's Karnaphuli upazila on December 13.

The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution urging Myanmar to end the military campaign against Muslim Rohingyas.

The Border Guard Bangladesh detained three members of Indian Border Security Force for illegally entering the country's territory on Majhardiar frontier in Rajshahi yesterday.

Protesting the government's move to seek review of the Supreme Court verdict on the 16th constitutional amendment, the Supreme

Just nine months ago, Dhankhali in Kalapara of Patuakhali was nothing but a barren land with a handful of houses. But now there is activity, in massive scale.

A few days ago around noon, rickshaw puller Abdus Salam dropped a passenger near Khamarbari intersection and got off his vehicle in front of a tea stall. He told the street vendor to give him a piece of bread and tea.