“I want an agreement on building a barrage on the Ganges with the assistance of India for the benefit of the people of the two

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has brought with her a bunch of gifts for the Indian leaders, including the president and the prime minister.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday embarked on a four-day state visit to India with a flickering hope of breaking the stalemate on the much-delayed Teesta water-sharing treaty. “I want to have a separate meeting with Mamata [chief minister of West Bengal], and I am waiting for that,” Hasina told a group of four Indian journalists hours after Indian Premier Narendra Modi received her at Delhi's Palam Air Force Station in a departure from his protocol.

India starts the commercial supply of high speed diesel (HSD) to Bangladesh today with an inaugural consignment of 2,200 metric tonnes.

Bangladesh has been slow in using up the previous $3 billion of Indian credit due to procedural flaws mainly on Dhaka's part.

US forces fired a barrage of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase yesterday in response to a suspected chemical attack, drawing furious condemnation from the Damascus regime and its key ally Russia.

Canadian explorer Niko Resources has left behind a hard-to-miss corruption trail, showing how it won an unsolicited energy deal and dodged responsibility for the subsequent blowouts, by bribing influential people linked with the last BNP-led government. The company, having been floated only in 1987, was so desperate that it did not even hesitate to appoint a consultancy firm, owned by a Bangladeshi-born American, for $4 million to handle the dirty work in Bangladesh, according to evidence obtained by The Daily Star.

Seeking to inject fresh dynamism into Bangladesh-India ties, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina arrives in Delhi today on a four-day state visit.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon Muslim countries to join hands to launch a concerted campaign to eliminate terrorism.

There were two forces at work in the tour-ending second T20I between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka at the R Premadasa International Stadium in Colombo yesterday.

A prominent street in the heart of the Indian capital was yesterday named after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

India yesterday made it clear that the much-desired Teesta water sharing deal would not be signed during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's upcoming visit there as the country was yet to have all on board for resolving the issue.

Residents in the capital suffered yesterday after moderate rainfall took the city under ankle to knee-deep water.

Today could be a tough day for city dwellers, especially HSC examinees, as two streets would be off limits to traffic and there would be diversions at 25 intersections centring the Bangladesh Islamic Foundation's (BIF) rally at Suhrawardy Udyan.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the Awami League would never compromise with the country's interests while signing any deal with any country.

Bangladesh have shared the Test series against Sri Lanka. They also shared the ODI series against the Lankans. Today the Tigers will get an opportunity to make it truly a shared series on the Lankan soil provided that they show tenacity in the second and final T20 international at the R Premadasa Stadium.

Bangladesh moved up three spots and ranked 139th out of 188 countries in Global Human Development Index 2015 due to the

“Have you seen on TV, when Mashrafe showed his bandages, the commentators wondered how he could run in such a state. I was also

The Inter-Parliamentary Union has made a clarion call to parliaments across the globe to take measures to protect the political system from influence of money and organised lobbies.

Bangladesh cricket has seen a lot of cricketers retiring from the international circuit.