Several hacking attempts to deface The Daily Star's website have been tracked and blocked since early February.

More than half of the $81 million Bangladesh Bank's money, which ended up in the Philippines through hacking, went to local casinos

Leading international software security group Kaspersky in its recent reports on worldwide cyber crime has placed Bangladesh in the world's number one position in both mobile malware attacks and offline attacks and 19th position on online attack target.

Bangladesh's abandoned ICC World Twenty20 qualifier against Ireland at Dharamsala last night will be remembered for one fine knock

In a demonstration of sheer arrogance, an assistant sub-inspector of Dhaka Metropolitan Police yesterday shot an employee of a cable

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to write back shortly to her British counterpart David Cameron and request him to withdraw the ban on direct air cargo from Dhaka to London.

Biman will lose business of around Tk 100 crore a year if the ban on direct cargo from Dhaka to the UK continued.

An injury-plagued Bangladesh, confronted with the stigma of suspect bowling actions, will go into their second ICC World T20 qualifier against Ireland at Dharamsala Cricket Stadium today. The match will start at 8 pm BST.

Hackers installed malicious software into the Bangladesh Bank system in January, which helped them gain knowledge of the central bank's working methods before stealing some $101 million. The forensic investigation by the BB, launched soon after the February 4 digital heist, detected the presence of the malware, said finance ministry and BB officials.

Bangladesh yesterday signed an agreement with the Exim Bank of India for $2 billion in low-cost loans for more than a dozen social and development projects.

“All the communities fought against the Pakistan occupation forces for independence in 1971. If the government tries to deprive any of them, the spirit of the

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday filed another petition with the High Court seeking cancellation of the trial proceedings in Zia Charitable Trust corruption case against her, as a Dhaka court is set to resume the hearing today.

A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leader was killed early yesterday allegedly by members of the ruling Awami League over a feud centring on the upcoming union parishad polls in Pirojpur.

A Chittagong court yesterday sentenced six people to death in a case filed for killing a student nearly five years ago.

The UK has banned air cargo directly from Dhaka until further notice as Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport failed to meet some international security requirements.

A cargo plane crashed into the Bay of Bengal near Sonadia island, about nine kilometres off Cox's Bazar coast, yesterday morning, killing three of its four crew members and injuring the other.

The hackers who stole Bangladesh Bank's money were on their way to pull off a heist of about $1 billion, but the banking system responded in time to stop the transfer of $870 million from the central bank's account with the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

The Supreme Court yesterday issued a contempt rule on two ministers for their bitter criticisms of Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha in relation to the hearing of an appeal of war crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali.

He was “an indispensable cog in the murdering machinery” installed at Mahamaya Dalim Hotel in Chittagong during the 1971 Liberation War. His militiamen picked up freedom fighters and pro-liberation people from different parts of Chittagong and held them captive at the hotel, which he had transformed into an Al-Badr camp.

Though his crimes have finally caught up with him, war criminal Mir Quasem Ali in the last four decades was able to establish himself