Mohammed Hossain, a Rohingya residing in a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, has at least 11 cases against his name. Desperate to leave the country, he contacted Abdur Rashid, a computer operator at Birol municipality office in Dinajpur, seeking help to obtain a birth registration certificate.

The Chittagong University campus has been in a state of unrest for the past few days as a result of back-to-back clashes between leaders and activists from the ruling party’s student wing -- the Bangladesh Chhatra League.

Police on Sunday night arrested a civic activist and the owner of a graphic design studio for designing posters allegedly as part of a “propaganda campaign”.

Police will not spare anyone if found guilty in the death of teenage domestic worker Preeti Urang, who fell from The Daily Star executive editor’s eighth-floor flat in the capital’s Mohammadpur on February 6, said DB chief Harun Or Rashid yesterday.

A woman and her SSC examinee daughter were hacked to death in Durgapur village of Gopalganj on Sunday.

The High Court today wanted to know whether post mortem were done of the bodies of 13 BNP men, who allegedly died inside jails in last few months

The High Court today fixed February 25 for delivering the verdict on a four-year old writ petition that sought prohibition of prenatal sex detection in order to ensure protection of babies and pregnant mothers

The Supreme Court today deferred till April 22 the hearing on a contempt of court petition filed against seven pro-BNP lawyers for their "slanderous, derogatory and contemptuous" comments about two apex court judges

This group of arrestees has prepared around 3,000 fake birth registration certificates, Saifur Rahman Azad, an additional deputy commissioner (cyber and special crime south) of DB told The Daily Star

"We are investigating the incident. We think we will be able to find out what actually happened"

A woman and her SSC examinee daughter were hacked to death over a land dispute in Durgapur village under Gopalganj's Sadar upazila last night

Abdur Rahman, vice-president of the Sylhet district unit of the Bangladesh Muktijuddha Mancha, filed the case with the Cyber Tribunal in Sylhet

A teenage boy was stabbed to death allegedly by a youth in Mymensingh’s Gafargaon upazila on Saturday.

A Faridpur court yesterday sentenced a former president of the district press club and another man to 17 years in prison for possession of an illegal firearm and two bullets.

A Dhaka court yesterday sent Executive Editor of The Daily Star Syed Ashfaqul Haque and his wife Tania Khondoker to jail on completion of their four-day police remand in a case over the death of a teenage house help who fell from their flat in the capital’s Mohammadpur on February 6.

The High Court yesterday said that mafia syndicates are active in the medical sector all across the world and not only in Bangladesh.

A Chattogram court yesterday sentenced a madrasa teacher to death in a case filed over the rape of four students in Rangunia upazila.

A Rohingya man was stabbed to death by unidentified attackers at a refugee camp in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Two school teachers from Gaibandha and Rangpur stand accused of embezzling Tk 4 crore over the past five years.

Police arrested a young man for allegedly raping a class one schoolgirl in a village of Jashore today