“Bangladeshi people like to talk with natural smile in their faces which tourists love to see and visit.”

The founder of a mosque and a madrasa was stabbed from behind while he was offering Maghrib prayers at a mosque in Chittagong's Fatikchhari upazila yesterday evening.

It was hard not to be left wanting more as Bangladesh's Test season drew to a close in the best possible fashion – a four-wicket win

“Be patient. Remain quiet.” This is what the investigator has been saying to Tonu's family for months, instead of updating probe findings of the sensational murder inside Comilla Cantonment.

Hanif Mridha who, according to Rab, died in its custody hours after being detained near Friday's suicide blast spot at the capital's

The High Court yesterday asked the government and the Anti-Corruption Commission to explain in four weeks as to why they should not be directed to run an enquiry into massive corruption and irregularities in the fertiliser sector managed by BCIC.

The legal battle in the case for the 2004 grenade attack on the then UK envoy in Bangladesh has finally come to an end after 13 years.

A youth died hours after he was picked up by the Rapid Action Battalion from near its Ashkona barrack, the site of Friday's suicide blast. The reason is yet to be known.

Rapid Action Battalion gunned down a “bike-riding youth as he defied a signal to stop” at a checkpoint on a deserted road in the capital's Khilgaon area early yesterday and “tried to force his way past”.

Bangladesh are a few steps away from creating history in their 100th Test match. That may be a tempting way to see the situation that

Yesterday's morning brought renewed hope to the nation as some of the brightest young minds promised to take the country to a new height excelling in education and making the best use of their knowledge. The future change-makers also vowed to dedicate their lives to the cause of people's welfare at The Daily Star's O- and A-level awards presentation ceremony, where 1,901 students were recognised for their academic brilliance.

A suspected suicide bomber sneaked into a Rab barrack and blew himself up in the capital's Ashkona yesterday, in what appears to be the country's first such attack by a terror suspect inside a law enforcement agency's compound. Terror group Islamic State claimed credit for the attack, reports BBC Bangla.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said people's united efforts can enable the nation to combat militancy and terrorism.

Call it resiliency or a perverse desire to prove naysayers wrong, but Bangladesh have made it a habit of turning in a stellar performance when their fans or critics least expect it.

For the last five years Kohinoor Akter, 48, originally from Madaripur but who lives in Dhaka's Savar, has not eaten a single grain of

Counterterrorism officials suspect that “Neo JMB” militants have built their hideouts in Cox's Bazar, Bandarban and Rangamati districts apart from Chittagong.

An alleged member of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (Huji) was killed in police firing during a raid in Brahmanbaria's

Three wickets for six runs in seven balls. That was enough to undo all the hard work that Bangladesh had done for most of the first two days to get into the driving seat in their 100th Test match, the second of a two-Test series against Sri Lanka that Bangladesh trail 0-1.

Arifun Nesa Arifa married her childhood-friend-turned lover without her parents' consent and then quickly became disillusioned as

An unhappy Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Tuesday said that the judiciary was being held hostage by the government's non-issuance of a gazette notification regarding disciplines and conducts of lower court judges.