Road transport workers have started enforcing an indefinite strike in 10 southern districts this morning, five days after a bus driver was sentenced to life imprisonment for his reckless driving killing five people in 2011.

She came to Dhaka from Rajshahi with her mother early yesterday to sit for a test at her college. The would-be doctor was supposed to head back to Rajshahi right after that. Sadia Hasan, 23, a fifth-year student of Dhaka National Medical College, was killed when a bus rammed the CNG-run auto-rickshaw her mother and she was in on North-South Road in Bangshal around 7:00am.

Bangladeshi Charge d'affaires in Libya Muhammad Muzammel Haque narrowly escaped a gun attack at the Bangladesh Embassy in

“The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security 'leakers' that have permeated our government for a long time. They can't even find

An Islamic State car bomb killed 51 people yesterday in a rebel-held village near the Syrian town of Al-Bab, sources in the region and

The news of gas price hike caught Amanul Karim by surprise. It took him some time to grasp the details of the news report on the television on Thursday night.

He is in jail and he is a fugitive -- all at the same time. Strange, right? But the man we are talking about is no illusionist. He is Kamol Khan, a prisoner as per the Dhaka Central Jail records and a fugitive in case documents.

The morning started just like any other day.

A Bangladeshi expatriate real estate businessman was stabbed to death right in front of his 12-year-old son in New York City's Bronx on Wednesday.

The government is going to form a special police unit for the protection of VIPs, including ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers and judges.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will go on a state visit to India in April.

A household will have to spend Tk 150 more on monthly gas bill from March 1, as the energy regulator yesterday raised gas prices for all consumers by 22.7 percent.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said a Canadian court's recent verdict has proved that “BNP is actually a terrorist party”.

Inspired by nature lover Abdus Samad Sheikh, officials of the British High Commission in Dhaka yesterday planted a tree in its compound.

The verdict has been delivered; now will it be executed? Will the road casualties come down?

The Daily Star yesterday honoured 25 editors of different local dailies and online news portals for their contribution to flourishing journalism in rural and urban areas of the country.

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." This Chinese proverb isn't about planting trees, not literally. But that didn't stop Abdul Samad Sheikh, who in all likelihood isn't even aware of this proverb, to become a guardian of nature. For him the best time to plant a tree was 48 years ago. And the second best time is every day.

A Manikganj court yesterday sentenced a bus driver to life imprisonment in a case filed over the road accident that killed noted filmmaker Tareque Masud, media personality Ashfaque Munier Mishuk and three others in 2011.

It was an ex-MP's “political ambition” that cost Awami League lawmaker Manzurul Islam Liton his life, according to police. Col (retd) Abdul Kader Khan, former Jatiya Party lawmaker from Gaibandha-1, masterminded the plot to kill Liton to fulfil his political ambition to get elected from the constituency again, they say.

“Though Bangla has been introduced at public offices, it has not yet been possible to implement this at courts. I'm very sorry for that.”