Inspector General of Police AKM Shahidul Hoque yesterday dismissed an international security expert's statement that Islamic State carried out the July 1 Gulshan attack last year.

The NRB Commercial Bank has sent a rejoinder to a report titled “Tk 44cr shares, lot of questions” published in The Daily Star on

The BNP is taking preparations for contesting the next parliamentary election though political parties are yet to reach a consensus on the election-time government.

Accidents and deaths in Moghbazar-Malibagh Flyover construction continue as safety measures are not being maintained even though a High Court verdict last year ordered ensuring public safety there. Early yesterday, a 36-metre-long girder weighing about 70 tonnes fell from the flyover and killed 42-year-old temporary hourly worker Md Swapan near Malibagh Level Crossing in the capital.

A “pir” and his female attendant were stabbed and shot dead last night at his shrine in Doula village of Dinajpur.

"We never want to get engaged in any war with anyone, but if anyone attacks us we want to give them a befitting reply.”

Two alleged robbers were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Tala upazila of Satkhira early yesterday.

The Supreme Court yesterday cleared the way for a lower court to continue trial of the Zia Charitable Trust corruption case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Was it the “Modi tsunami” or a “saffron wave”? The spectacular show by India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in

Bangladesh Navy started its journey as a "three-dimensional force" yesterday as two submarines were commissioned in its fleet for the first time. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally commissioned the twin submarines named "Nabajatra" and "Joyjatra" at a colourful ceremony at the Chittagong Naval Berth at noon, report BSS and UNB.

An international security expert has said terrorist organisation Islamic State has presence in Bangladesh and that it carried out the Gulshan attack last year, something the Bangladesh authorities have repeatedly denied.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) yesterday secured an unprecedented landslide victory in legislative assembly polls in India's biggest state Uttar Pradesh.

When the miscued shot off Mehedi Hasan Miraz's bat landed in the mid-off fielder's hands, Bangladesh lost their 10th wicket in just

Taking a swipe at BNP for its recent anti-Indian remarks, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday alleged that the party came to power in 2001 through giving an undertaking to sell gas to India.

The maximum fare from Jatrabari to Motijheel, only three kilometres, should be Tk 5 but Shahnaz Khatun has to pay Tk 10 for the ride in the so-called sitting-service buses. The capital's bus owners are charging the passengers fares at their will every day but Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) apparently cares little.

The House last night unanimously adopted a resolution to observe March 25 as Genocide Day.

Like their previous three away Tests, the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle awaits a final day denouement today with Bangladesh having 10 wickets to try and salvage a draw and needing 390 runs to pull off an unlikely victory.

Unknown assailants hacked an on-duty night guard of a church in Pabna's Chatmohar early yesterday.

Militant outfit “Neo JMB” has at least three more dens in Chittagong, and has chosen the district as its base, finding it difficult to operate in the capital.

On March 1, Ranjan Das came to the BRTA in Mirpur from Comilla for a fitness test of his human haulier. The test, done at the automated Vehicle Inspection Centre (VIC) on the BRTA compound, found problem in the brake. So denied the fitness certificate, Ranjan, who doesn't even has a professional driving licence, drove back to Comilla, about 90km from Dhaka.