Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inaugurated the construction work on the much-hyped first-ever metro rail service in the capital and the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to Gazipur.

Seven to eight criminals took part in the murder of SP Babul Akter's wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu in exchange for money they received through a middleman, police said yesterday.

With tangled hair and ragged cloths, she moped around footpath shops at the Paltan intersection, whining for handouts. Her ill-nourished, thin body was crusted with dirt all the time and she lived on alms she begged from shop to shop.

The government would install a 240-km pipeline from Chittagong to Dhaka within three years for the supply of petroleum fuel at a cheap rate, State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid told parliament yesterday.

After Australia and the UK, Germany has imposed a ban on direct cargo flights from Bangladesh to any airport in Germany due to security reasons, said a notice of the Federal Aviation Authority of Germany yesterday.

A string of Labour shadow cabinet members have quit, with more walkouts expected, in protest at Jeremy Corbyn's leadership over the EU referendum.

“I've been playing the Dhaka Premier League for 21 years and I haven't seen a dirtier season than this year.”

David Cameron may now be likened to two of his predecessors -- Edward Heath and Harold Wilson.

In a gesture of friendship, Bangladesh has started sending 10,000 metric tons of rice to Nepal for the earthquake victims.

A “syndicate” of some pro-Awami League Swadhinata Chikitsak Parishad (Swachip) doctors and medical representatives at an eye hospital in the capital is allegedly making patients pay extra for contact lenses.

A youth died in police custody on Friday night, around four hours after he had been detained allegedly with 15 Yaba tablets in

German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday sought to temper pressure from Paris, Brussels and her own government to force Britain

Construction work of the first metro rail service in the capital begins today with an aim to open half of the 20km metro line by the end

Police superintendent Babul Akter has been quizzed to ascertain whether he had any link with the murder of his wife, who was stabbed and shot to death early this month in Chittagong, police and family sources said yesterday.

EU leaders have insisted that the UK must move swiftly to negotiate leaving the organisation, saying any delay would prolong uncertainty.

The pound plunged and world stock markets slumped yesterday after Britain's shock vote to leave the European Union, fuelling a wave of global uncertainty.

Bangladesh has become one of the first countries to have secured a loan from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

As the UK opted out of the European Union, foreign affairs experts yesterday stressed the need for immediate talks with the UK on

Bangladesh runs the risk of losing duty benefits on its annual exports of more than $3 billion to the UK, as Britons voted to leave the

British politics was upended yesterday by a shock vote to leave the EU which forced Prime Minister David Cameron to resign, triggered a leadership race and raised doubts the country could survive in its current form.