At least 13 people were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run covered van on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Faridpur's Nagarkanda last night.

Members of Indian Border Security Force shot dead a Bangladeshi cattle trader and injured another near Datbhanga border in Kurigram's Roumari upazila early yesterday.

If Day One of the one-off Test against India was frustrating for Bangladesh, day two was nothing short of a disaster. India did do well to pile on the runs before declaring on 687 for six, after which the visitors lost the wicket of Soumya Sarkar at the end and finished the day on 41 for 1.

Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha has blamed the many loopholes in various laws for the huge pile of cases pending in courts across the country.

US President Donald Trump suffered more than a legal defeat of his immigration ban Thursday night. He ran smack into the limits of executive power.

Bangladesh Police is going to create commando teams in all metropolitan areas and range police units to deal with any crisis situation such as militant attack or hostage situation. “The crisis teams will respond to any emergency call within five minutes,” Dr Kh Mahid Uddin, additional deputy inspector general (training and sports) at the police headquarters, told The Daily Star yesterday.

Fielding lapses had cost Bangladesh quite heavily during the New Zealand series and it was a similar indiscretion that prevented them from putting India under pressure early on the first day of the one-off Test in Hyderabad yesterday.

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Rejecting their bail prayers, a Dhaka court yesterday sent Amber Group Chairman Showkat Aziz Russell and ex-chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha Iqbal Uddin Chowdhury to prison in a case filed for obtaining land in Purbachal illegally.

In his childhood, he used to help his father run the family's sweetmeat shop in Comilla. But today, his hard work and dedication coupled with intelligence have made him a top lender in India.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the imams and Islamic scholars to help the government stamp out terrorism and militancy.

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The parliamentary body on women and children affairs has recommended that boys should also be allowed to marry before the permissible age under “special circumstances”.

If you have grown up anywhere near Bangladesh's cricketing circles, you will know just how much value this odd, one-off Test tour against India holds.

The six-member search committee proposed, among other things, enacting a law on formation of the Election Commission.

Mahir Sarowar Megh was only five when his parents were brutally killed in the bedroom of their apartment in the capital's West Rajabazar.

It takes seven months to produce 2,000kgs of pabda (Ompok) from a fish farm the size of a football pitch. How about getting the same results in half the time from an indoor space that is hardly the size of a penalty box?

BRAC University yesterday became the first Bangladeshi educational institution to get its very own nanosatellite, developed and assembled by three of its students using technology and facilities of a Japanese university.

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Terming the new Election Commission the reflection of the prime minister's liking, the BNP-led 20-party alliance last night said a “controversial government official” has been appointed as the chief election commissioner (CEC).