Sonajan Akter is not at all familiar with the razzle-dazzle of an award show. So, when she found glittering lights, grand decorations and loud sound at the capital's Krishibid Institution Bangladesh last night, she looked a little surprised.

The Bangladesh government has not only failed to protect dissenting voices or hold accountable the armed groups that threaten them, it has also stifled freedom of expression through a slew of repressive tactics and new laws, said an Amnesty International report yesterday.

Almost half the country saw several hours of power outage yesterday following a failure of two major transmission lines.

Bangladesh has lost between $6 billion and $9 billion to illicit money outflows in 2014, according to a Global Financial Integrity (GFI) report.

Thirty-year-old Belal Uddin was clueless about the lurking danger. With an iron rod, he was removing bricks at a construction site in Munshiganj's Gazaria area on January 13.

“I call upon my fans and well-wishers to stand by the people of haor areas before I request them to watch my movie .... Save our real

Workers in Bangladesh on average work for 12 hours a day, says a survey conducted by the Bangladesh Institute of Labour Studies (BILS).

Business leaders were involved in a heated exchange of words with Finance Minister AMA Muhith during a meeting between the FBCCI and NBR yesterday over the implementation of a new VAT law.

Issuing a warning that no one will be spared if any negligence is found in haor embankment construction, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said haor farmers would get free agricultural inputs for the next crop.

Children in flood-hit areas of Sunamganj have remained absent from school for nearly a month, mostly because there are waters all

When Irani Baroi, a nurse from Betkadia village in Kotalipara upazila of Gopalganj first contracted fever back in December 1996 it

Farmers and public representatives have reiterated their demand for declaring Sunamganj haor belt a disaster zone prior to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to the area today.

Donald Trump faced the sober realities of his office yesterday as he marked the 100th day of a presidency stamped by chaos and confusion, but he will also take political succour in a campaign-style rally among core supporters.

Bangladesh Police is finally going to get a fully-fledged unit with jurisdiction to combat militancy and terrorism anywhere in the country.

Three companies, a rehabilitation centre for the paralysed, and two individuals were honoured as climate champions jointly by HSBC Bangladesh and The Daily Star yesterday for their efforts to protect nature.

Three of the four slain militant suspects at a Chapainawabganj hideout were killed in suicide blasts and the other died from bullet wounds, according to one of the doctors who conducted autopsies on them.

Luring Bangladeshis with lucrative jobs abroad, transnational human trafficking gangs are taking hundreds of people to war-torn Libya, and are holding them hostage there for ransom, torturing them, and using them as slaves. The gangs get tourist visas of Sudan, Dubai or Egypt for the victims and then fly them to Libya with fake visas from the countries, according to survivors and officials concerned.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday stressed the need for maintaining an understanding between the state's three organs -- legislature, judiciary and executive -- to run the country successfully.

Tens of thousands of haor people are still waiting for food and other relief items to reach them. The early flash flood first hit the country's north-eastern region late last month and continued to inundate more and more areas till last week, destroying almost all of the region's Boro crop.

The 12-hour raid on a terror den in Chapainawabganj ended yesterday evening, as four militant suspects holed up there blew themselves up. Rafiqul Islam alias Abu, an operative of militant outfit “Neo JMB”, was among the dead. The terror outfit had given Abu, also known as Abul Kalam, the responsibility for providing shelter to its members, said police.