Police open fire to disperse a procession brought out by Islami Chhatra Shibir activists in Sylhet city during the Jamaat-e-Islami-enforced countrywide daylong hartal.

A former joint convener of Jessore district unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was shot by unidentified criminals at Goherpur village

At least 30 people including 15 BNP and Jamaat men were arrested during special drives by law enforcers in Satkhira, Munshiganj and

At least 38 people were injured in separate clashes between rival factions of the ruling Awami League in Jessore and Sylhet districts on

A trader, hacked by an unidentified gang at Deupara under Kaliganj upazila of the district on Saturday night, died at a hospital in Uttara,

The High Court yesterday upheld the government's decision suspending BNP-backed Khulna City Corporation Mayor Moniruzzaman Moni as he was charged in two vandalism cases filed in 2014.

Top war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury were buried yesterday at their village homes amid tight security.

Families of war crimes victims, campaigners and researchers have hailed the government for its commitment in bringing the perpetrators of the 1971 to book and implementing the court verdicts against them.

Dhaka has reacted sharply to a statement from Islamabad on Sunday's execution of two war criminals, and summoned the Pakistan high commissioner in Bangladesh for lodging a formal protest. Pakistani Envoy Shuja Alam was asked yesterday afternoon to come to the acting foreign secretary's office at 2:30pm today, a diplomatic source in Dhaka told The Daily Star.

Government summons Pakistan envoy to lodge formal protest as Pakistan expressed ‘anguish’ over execution of war criminals Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel are deployed in Dhaka this evening ahead of tomorrow’s hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami.

A four-year-old girl is raped by a neighbour in the Sabujbagh area of Dhaka.

The primary and ebtedai terminal examinations scheduled for tomorrow will be held on November 30.

Police arrested two Jamaat men including the ameer of Rampal upazila unit on Friday night. The detainees were identified as Julfikar Ali,

A mobile court of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday fined six diagnostic centres Tk 15 lakh and sealed two of

Condemned war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury will convey his decision on seeking presidential clemency when he meets his lawyers, his wife Farhat Quader Chowdhury says.

President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina pay homage to members of Bangladesh Armed Forces, who made supreme sacrifices in the Liberation War in 1971, on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day.

Law enforcers arrested 102 people, including 13 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-Shibir, in eight upazilas of

A mobile court yesterday fined a fertiliser factory in Noapara Bazar area in Jessore Tk 1.2 lakh for selling fertiliser

None of the condemned war criminals -- Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed and Salauddin Quader Chowdhury -- have yet informed the authorities whether they would seek presidential clemency, sources in Dhaka Central Jail said yesterday.