A Dhaka court yesterday placed Mahfuza Malek Jasmine on a five-day remand in a case filed over the killing of her two kids in the capital's Banasree area on Monday.

Wouldn't it be great if you could have a mango in deep winter? Why not any time of the year? What if it was just as yellow and luscious and fragrant as one from peak season?

"Ha! Tickets? I doubt whether even I'll be able to get in or not!" a leading cricketer spoke into his phone yesterday, one would assume jokingly, after being asked to provide tickets for tomorrow's Asia Cup T20 final while he was relaxing after training at the Mirpur Indoor.

Fraudsters might actually have stolen over Tk 1 crore -- four times the amount initially thought -- from ATM booths of several banks using cloned cards last month, the central bank and investigators say.

"Our growth and development stories should be complimentary. We should grow together and we should work together ... India will give

“If we see this from a human rights perspective, such activities cast a dark shadow on the judiciary. No one except the court can identify someone as a criminal."

Police have detained two persons in connection with robbing a fast-track ATM booth of Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd at Harinhat in Gazipur's Kaliakoir upazila.

The BNP yesterday expressed concern that the government might be plotting to foil its March 19 council.

“Great win by @BCBtigers. Skills, courage and belief. Deserved to be in the finals. Congrats to Hathu [Chandika Hathurusingha] and his team.”

Two police officials were crushed to death by a truck carrying phensidyl in Kansat of Shibganj upazila early yesterday.

The Bangladesh national team cricketers enjoyed a well-deserved day off yesterday. It was the least that the team management could do after the players pulled off a stunning victory against Pakistan and booked themselves a spot in the final.

Robbers looted Tk 1.74 crore before the money was to be loaded into automated teller machines (ATM) of Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited in Gazipur yesterday.

Weakening familial bonds and poor social interactions could be the main reasons for the spike in violence and cruelty against children, even within the supposedly safe protection of their homes.

The two Banasree siblings were killed by their own mother out of her “concerns about their future”

Customs Intelligence (CI) at Shahjalal International Airport yesterday seized 1,000 illegally imported ATM cards, suspected to have been brought for financial criminals' use.

The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday picked up the parents and a relative of the two siblings, two days after their suspected murder in the capital's Banasree area.

A chartered flight is usually reserved for heads of states or billionaires. The Tigers may not have elevated themselves to that status but on Wednesday night they forced their employer to make an arrangement for one such flight from Dhaka to Dharamsala after an extraordinary five-wicket win against Pakistan.

A Rangpur court yesterday granted bail to The Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam in a Tk 100-crore defamation case.

The autopsies of the two siblings, found dead at their flat in the capital's Banasree on Monday, suggest that "they might have been murdered".

When Bangladesh and Pakistan lock horns in their Asia Cup T20 tie at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today, both will be