"I will not bow down to anyone, and I hope that none of my colleagues will do so."

If number speaks for itself, Awami League ally Bangladesh Tariqat Federation can consider itself very lucky at the moment.

Israel passed a law on Monday retroactively legalising about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the

Faruk Hossain landed in jail 12 years ago as an accused in a murder case. Aged only 13 at the time of his arrest, he was produced

It was around 9:15am yesterday. SSC examinee Sakibul Islam along with his mother Farida Yeasmin was going to his exam centre at a school inside Dhaka Cantonment. Amid heavy traffic, their bus was moving very slowly near Mohakhali, and Sakibul's English First Paper test would begin in less than 45 minutes.

The country yesterday got its first female election commissioner in Begum Kabita Khanam, a former district and sessions judge.

A Bangladeshi fisherman was killed and another injured when Myanmar's border guards opened fire on them at the Teknaf border of

The cabinet yesterday gave the go-ahead for the setting up of a fund with money from the foreign currency reserves, which would be used for government investment in long-term projects.

Former secretary KM Nurul Huda has been chosen to lead the next Election Commission. President Abdul Hamid appointed him chief election commissioner last night in line with a constitutional provision, according to a gazette notification issued around 10:00pm.

Myanmar government forces committed rape and other sexual violence against Rohingya women and girls during security operations in northern Rakhine State in late 2016, Human Rights Watch said yesterday.

Shahzadpur Mayor Halimul Haque Miru repeatedly breached party's rules of decorum and was expelled twice since joining the Awami League in 1996.

An Afghan guard with a “personal grudge” shot dead a junior diplomat inside the Afghan consulate in Pakistan's Karachi yesterday, police said.

The search committee is likely to pick two former secretaries from a list of five for the post of chief election commissioner in the next Election Commission.

The Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) has sent a rejoinder to a report “Even a ship full of fertiliser vanishes,” published on 27/01/17 on page 1 in The Daily Star. We are publishing the full text of the rejoinder with our reply paragraph by paragraph.

Seasoned politician, parliamentarian Suranjit Sengupta is no more. A freedom fighter, eight-time lawmaker and one of the youngest members of country's 34-member constitution framing committee, Suranjit died at 4:24am yesterday at Labaid Hospital in the capital after prolonged illness. He was 72.

A US appeal court late on Saturday denied a request from the Department of Justice to immediately restore an immigration order from President Donald Trump barring citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries and temporarily banning refugees.

Police last night arrested Shahzadpur municipality Mayor Halimul Haque Miru, prime accused in the journalist Abdul Hakim Shimul murder case.

Lawyers and translators around the United States are still working to help immigrants and refugees coming into the country as several

US authorities yesterday suspended President Donald Trump's controversial ban on travelers from seven Muslim countries, following a

He died over two and a half years ago but his funeral has not been performed yet. His body is kept at the mortuary of Dhaka Medical College.