Police were yet to arrest any of the five accused in the Banani double rape case but an owner and staff of a hotel claimed they saw

Students of a primary school in Gaibandha took their first terminal examination on the veranda of the educational institution yesterday

The government “compromised and surrendered to fundamentalist groups” by bringing changes in textbooks, limiting Pahela Baishakh

The arrested attacker of the Mymensingh Ahmadiyya mosque imam yesterday claimed the attackers had no link with any political party and that no party or organisation helped them in carrying out the attack.

Rising prices of some essentials, including rice, sugar and vegetables, are hitting consumers hard, especially those in low and fixed income groups.

The election victory of French pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron has raised hopes among liberal democrats that the populist and anti-globalisation juggernaut behind Brexit and Donald Trump is losing momentum.

The government yesterday set office hours for all government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous bodies from 9:00am to 3:30pm during Ramadan, beginning at the end of this month.

Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) has sent a rejoinder to a news headlined “Where crimes draw no flak” published in The Daily Star on April 17.

The two university students repeatedly begged the rapists to let them go. At one stage, the girls warned that they would go to police, but the men bragged about their money and influence and said police would not touch them.

The government has approved a proposal to amend the Banking Companies Act, doubling the number of directors in a bank's board from a single family and extending the tenure of share-holding directors.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday criticised Chief Justice SK Sinha for his claim that there is no rule of law in the country and that the judiciary is not independent.

Jatiya Party chief HM Ershad yesterday came up with the country's biggest-ever electoral alliance, comprised of 58 political parties, counting mainly on name-only Islamist parties.

The ruling Awami League has taken the polls to seven city corporations quite seriously as, by winning those, it wants to boost the morale of party activists ahead of the 11th national polls.

The BNP could curtail the power of the prime minister and strengthen the roles of lawmakers in parliament if voted to power in the next general election, party insiders claimed.

A police officer narrowly escaped from a suicide attacker at a “Neo JMB” hideout in Jhenidah's Maheshpur upazila where two suspected militants were killed and two policemen wounded during an operation yesterday.

Police could not arrest any of the five accused in a case filed over raping two university students in a posh hotel in the capital's Banani.

Pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron promised yesterday to heal France's divisions after crushing far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a pivotal presidential election that has given him a large but fragile mandate for change.

"Cox's Bazar earned a bad reputation as yaba [tablets] are supplied from here."

Namira's parents couldn't be happier when she started to go to bed early. It used to be difficult to put the 13-year-old to bed as she would spend hours on the internet and play video games. But the parents' relief was replaced with worries in less than a week. The eighth grader, pretending to be asleep under her blanket, was found playing on a tablet.

Bangladesh has been named one of the six emerging Asian economies where growth gathered momentum, with the other five being India, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Vietnam.