“We will not let the terrorists prevail.”

The ruling Awami League is considering floating a new front, which will be the party's religious wing with representatives from Islamic scholars and thinkers.

Islami Bank, the largest and most profitable bank in the country, has plunged into a bout of infighting within just five months of wholesale restructuring of the board of directors and top management.

A Dhaka court yesterday granted bail to eight people, including seven doctors, on their surrender before it in a case alleging that “wrong treatment” at Central Hospital led to the death of a Dhaka University student.

A youth was crushed to death between two buses in the capital's Jatrabari area during the office-hour rush yesterday morning.

The law ministry suspended Mohammad Ali, a prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, from all trial procedures in February last year. After the suspension, he did not get involved with any war crimes cases and never appeared before the tribunal.

The premature death of a Dhaka University student at a private hospital, the subsequent vandalism there and Bangladesh Medical Association's decision to abstain from work for a day have left the nation shocked.

The chief justice is the key person in forming opinion as to the eligibility of persons for appointment in the higher judiciary and his opinion shall have primacy over that of the executive, observed the High Court in a verdict recently.

US President Donald Trump has expressed his willingness to visit Bangladesh as he exchanged greetings with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina during the Arab Islamic American Summit in Riyadh on Sunday.

"History of genocide must be remembered and perpetrators of international crimes must be made accountable through a justice process and that's what Bangladesh is doing now."

Every afternoon, Saiful Islam walks at a leisurely pace and stops in front of each street vendor. Without a word, vendor hands him Tk 100 or more.

A worker was killed as an iron pipe fell on him yesterday at a ship-breaking yard in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong.

New Zealand captain Tom Latham led from the front with a century as his side beat Ireland by an emphatic margin of 190 runs at Malahide on Sunday to win the one-day international tri-series with a game to spare.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha yesterday said the judiciary was becoming dysfunctional due to non-cooperation from the law ministry.

US President Donald Trump yesterday urged Islamic leaders to take a stand against violence done in the name of religion, describing the struggle against extremism as a "battle between good and evil".

Bangladesh is far from achieving the international standard of teacher-student ratio in secondary schools with the ratio worsening since 2011, according to a draft government report.

In a surprise move, police yesterday raided BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office to seize "materials for carrying out anti-state and subversive activities". They found nothing during the more than two-hour-long search. "We did not get the things for which we carried out the search. We made a zero seizure list and wrapped up the search,” Salahuddin, inspector (investigation) of Gulshan Police Station, told The Daily Star yesterday.

Child marriages are an uncomfortably frequent occurrence in parts of the country today. Fortunately, some have decided that talk is

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina yesterday said divisions have been created within the ruling party because of infiltration by BNP-Jamaat men, and blamed some of her party lawmakers for this.

When Sagor Howlader, 10, was riding his bicycle near his house last Sunday afternoon, he had not imagined how a normal day was about to take a turn for the worse.