British company Redline is going to be awarded the job of screening at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at Tk 73.98 crore for two years.

False entries made by an airport screener on the list of checked goods and a casual smoke break taken by another one were the last straw for the UK monitoring team, leading to the temporary ban on Dhaka-London direct air cargo. The Daily Star learnt this from a report of the UK Department for Transport (DfT) and a reliable source in the British High Commission in Dhaka.

Khaleda Zia's new government model, unveiled at the BNP's council on Saturday, took many of her party's policymakers by surprise as they claimed to have been kept in the dark about it until its disclosure.

The Supreme Court yesterday ordered Food Minister Qamrul Islam and Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque to reappear before it on March 27 over a contempt rule against them.

After a one-day washout followed by a Test snub, the Tigers will finally have their first sight of the mighty Australia in the glamorous ICC flagship event at a neutral venue today.

“Both bowlers have played over the last one and a half years and there was no problem. To the naked eye, maybe one or two of his [Taskin's] deliveries seemed

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said two submarines will be inducted into Bangladesh Navy this year for the first time, aiming to transform it into a three-dimensional force.

A Boeing passenger jet operated by the flydubai budget airline crashed in southern Russia early yesterday, killing all 62 people on board as it tried to land in bad weather, officials said.

Cool-headed Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten half century as India cruised to a comfortable six-wicket victory over arch rivals Pakistan

Bangladesh's ICC World Twenty20 campaign received a setback yesterday as the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that they had found the bowling actions of both Arafat Sunny and Taskin Ahmed to be illegal.

Two engineers of SWIFT have come to Bangladesh to review its servers with the central bank -- 38 days after a band of hackers breached the payment system in an attempt to steal about $1 billion.

If voted to power, the BNP will ensure a balance of power in the executive branch of the government by bringing necessary amendments to the constitution, party chief Khaleda Zia said yesterday. “In recent years, people have had a deep realisation that the absolute executive authority of prime minister has given rise to a despotic and authoritarian rule,” she said, addressing her party's national council in the capital.

New Zealand beat Australia by eight runs in a thrilling match in the World Twenty20, with recalled paceman Mitchell McClenaghan

With the aim to return to "positive politics", the BNP holds its long-awaited sixth triennial national council today, more than six years

The BNP holds its national council today with the theme of freeing democracy from captivity, but democratic practice in its own home has remained absent since its birth in 1978.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) yesterday summoned the branch manager of Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) to answer the criminal

At least 10 people were injured early yesterday as a fire broke out from a gas explosion at a six-storey building in the capital's Banani

The hackers, who stole $101 million from Bangladesh Bank's reserves, used advanced tools to break into its payment systems,

“These are happening due to a lack of coordination [among government agencies]. I personally talked to the Titas managing director at 3:00am last night

Money transfer firm PhilRem Service Corporation will issue Bangladesh Bank a check of 10.47 million peso ($2.3lakh) -- the amount it profited from transactions linked to the central bank fund heist.