The international community must mount pressure on Myanmar so that it recognises Rohingyas as citizens, say immigration experts

Bangladesh's opportunity to seize the benefits of 'demographic dividend' will last for the next 16 years as there will be an acceleration in numbers of elderly people (60 years and above) after 2031.

Following a three-year legal battle, former Dhaka University student Abdul Kadar has finally got justice as a Dhaka court yesterday punished a police official for torturing him in custody in 2011.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has cleared the vice-chairman of Bangladesh Milk Producers’ Co-operative Union Limited, popularly known as Milk Vita, and six others of graft charges.

Malaysia says its foreign minister would meet his Indonesian and Thai counterparts to discuss the influx of boatpeople to Southeast Asia as international pressure grew for a regional solution.

A Dhaka court sentences Helal Uddin, a former officer-in-charge of Khilgaon Police Station, to three years’ imprisonment for torturing Dhaka University student Abdul Kadar and implicating him in three false cases three years back.

Police will crack down unregistered motorbikes from June 3, Inspector General of Police Shahidul Haque say on Sunday.

It's shocking to learn that an estimated 6,000 people from Bangladesh and Myanmar are fighting for survival in the Andaman Sea and

Snatched by people traffickers in his native Bangladesh and forced onto a migrant boat, 14-year-old Absaruddin endured a weeks-

An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 others to death for their role

The Thai government yesterday confirmed its readiness to work with the international community in solving the problem relating to boat people from Myanmar and Bangladesh.

The United States has urged the governments of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand to refrain from pushbacks of new boats with

Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested four people in connection with the murder of the security guard of Al-Arafah Islami Bank

Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested four people in connection with the murder of the security guard of Al-Arafah Islami Bank

The principal of a madrasa in Parbatipur upazila of the district on Thursday forcibly realised Tk 1,000 from each of 13 students from

Mohammadpur Preparatory School closed till May 25 and its vice principal discharged in face of protests over sexual harassment of a minor student.

Meghalaya police are likely to produce BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed before a Shillong court by next Saturday and seek time from the court to question him for trespassing, Meghalaya police said.

In a one-to-one conversation with The Daily Star, Bangladesh Chhatra Union activist Ismat Jahan Joe tells of her account of the day when students were thrashed away by cops while trying to lay a siege to Dhaka police headquarters protesting the April 14 sexual assault on women.

Customs officials detained a North Korean national with cache of alcohol and Viagra pills from a Banani restaurant in Dhaka.

Another 700 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants are rescued off Indonesia on Friday, police say, as Myanmar undermined calls for a coordinated response to the human-trafficking crisis by threatening to boycott a planned Southeast Asian summit.