Police yesterday charged five transport workers for gang raping and killing law student Rupa Khatun on a running bus on August 25.

The BNP yesterday placed before the Election Commission a set of proposals, including dissolution of parliament and a polls-time 'supportive government' to oversee the next parliamentary election.

Halfway through South Africa's cakewalk to what seemed like a challenging target of 279 on a clear and windy day in Kimberley's Diamond Oval the large Bangladesh contingent, who were shouting themselves hoarse during the first half of the first ODI, became

It seems that the strict enforcement of traffic rules has brought some discipline on the city streets, but some vehicles are still found going against traffic.

Former UN chief Kofi Annan urged the Security Council on Friday to push for the return to Myanmar of hundreds of thousands of Rohyingas who have been driven out in an army campaign.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha is facing 11 charges, including money laundering and corruption, the Supreme Court said in a statement yesterday, a day after he left the country for Australia.

Just as the returns of ODI skipper Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Shakib Al Hasan and the likely comeback of Tamim Iqbal seemed to be bolstering Bangladesh, they suffered a major blow when

World Food Programme will provide rice, pulse, oil and other daily necessities to Rohingyas well into next year.

It's a double delight for wheat growers in Bangladesh.

A screenshot of a fake front page of The Daily Star's yesterday's issue went viral on social media.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha last night said he was not sick as he left the country for Australia, contradicting the government's claim that he went on leave on health grounds earlier this month.

Exactly a year ago, China committed an estimated $21.5 billion in soft loan to Bangladesh for 27 projects, but Beijing is yet to release any fund mainly due to lengthy bureaucratic tangle.

Myanmar's military has launched an internal probe into the conduct of soldiers during an offensive that has sent more than half a million Rohingyas fleeing to Bangladesh, many saying they witnessed killings, rape and arson by troops.

The Tejgaon Fire Station building in the capital has been retrofitted and six more fire station buildings await the same to become earthquake resistant. At least 300 garment factory buildings across the country and many office buildings of international organisations in Dhaka also have undergone the seismic retrofitting.

Two of the country's largest public health facilities -- Dhaka Medical College Hospital and Mitford Hospital -- might not be able to withstand an earthquake of seven magnitude on the Richter scale.

The UN has announced that its top official in Myanmar is being recalled to headquarters in New York amid allegations that she

The Myanmar army has now accused the world media of “exaggerating” the number of Rohingya refugees fleeing its brutal crackdown

Two alleged criminals were killed in “shootouts” between their cohorts and law enforcers in Chittagong and Habiganj early yesterday.

Release of a new rice variety brings in high hopes as scientists expect it to break the long stagnation in the production growth of the staple.

After the shame of Bosnia, there should not have been a Myanmar. Yet, Myanmar happened because the big nations on both sides of the East-West divide have rendered the UN an ineffective organisation, a platform to talk and not to take actions.