Another firefighter sustained injuries in his leg while working to extinguish the fire
As Bangladesh braces for another year with the threat of dengue looming, experts have urged the government to adopt comprehensive and year-round strategies to curb the spread of the mosquito-borne disease.
A 58-year-old man was allegedly killed by his nephew over a land dispute in Jamalpur's Madarganj upazila today
Seventeen houses of the Tripura community in Bandarban were burnt down in an alleged arson attack early yesterday.
A man died yesterday, a day after being beaten and forced to drink a mixture of acid, limestone, and sand, on allegations of cattle theft in Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila.
At least 19 firefighting units were deployed at the scene and the fire was brought under control at 8:05am
Iftekharuzzaman, the executive director of Transparency International Bangladesh and also the head of the anti-corruption reform commission, recently shared with The Daily Star updates on the commission’s activities.
Rohingyas attempt to infiltrate into Bangladesh daily, and the Coast Guard pushes them back, said Director General of the Bangladesh Coast Guard Rear Admiral Ziaul Haque yesterday.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed separate cases against former State Minister of Disaster Management and Relief and ex-lawmaker for Patuakhali-4, Mohibbur Rahman, and his wife, Fatema Akhter, on charges of corruption
On a chilly December evening in Hatbati village, under the open sky, the air was filled with a sense of nostalgia and excitement. Wrapped in warm shawls and blankets, villagers from Batiaghata upazila in Khulna gathered at the District Satsang Ashram Centre to witness something that many thought was slowly fading away: a Jatra Pala performance.
The body of a female police constable was found in her home in the Kamalapur area of Kushtia city yesterday evening
A Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader was beaten to death allegedly by some BNP men during a clash in Narayanganj’s Rupganj upazila on Tuesday night.
More than two and a half years after his arrest by India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case, Bangladeshi businessman Prashanta Kumar Halder, known as PK Halder, walked out of jail after a special court in Kolkata granted him bail.
Pakistan air strikes in an eastern border region of Afghanistan killed 46 civilians, the Taliban government said yesterday.
An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet crashed yesterday in western Kazakhstan, killing 38 of the 67 people on board, officials said.
Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya yesterday raised “serious concerns” over China’s military buildup as he met counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing, Tokyo said.
South Korea’s suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol refused a summons to appear for questioning on Christmas Day, the second time he has defied investigators’ demands in a week.
Indian police said yesterday they had killed three Sikh militants fighting for a separate homeland known as “Khalistan”, the struggle for which sparked deadly violence in the 1980s and 1990s.
It is to be noted that under the provisions of the India-Bangladesh extradition treaty, extradition may be refused if the offence is one of a "political character"
A Myanmar ethnic rebel group has captured a military regional command in Rakhine state, it said, in what would be a major blow to the junta.
Russia attacked Ukraine’s energy system and some cities with cruise and ballistic missiles plus drones yesterday in an “inhuman” Christmas Day assault, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Protesters in Panama on Tuesday burned an image of US President-elect Donald Trump following his threat to demand control of the country’s interoceanic canal be returned to Washington.
Pope Francis yesterday called for “arms to be silenced” around the world in his Christmas address, appealing for peace in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan as he denounced the “extremely grave” humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Lebanon’s state media said an Israeli air strike targeted the Baalbek region in the east of the country before dawn yesterday, branding it a “violation” of the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
Hamas yesterday accused Israel of imposing “new conditions” that it said were delaying a ceasefire agreement in the war in Gaza, though it acknowledged negotiations were still ongoing.
Turkish military killed 21 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and Iraq, the defence ministry said yesterday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today denounced an "inhumane" attack from Russia, which launched over 170 missiles and drones on his war-torn country's power grid on Christmas Day
Pope Francis calls for peace across the world in Christmas message
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Star, Aryan shares his experience of those miserable days passed during trafficking and more on today's Star Connects
A Rab official said
Accoridng to media reports, Quader fled to the Indian state of Kolkata via Shillong on Nov 8
Probe reports for both the cases were scheduled for completion today
Police recovered the body from Super Home Hostel around 2:00pm
Chief adviser condemns incident, urges investigation
'We have sent a letter to the foreign affairs ministry for her extradition. This process is underway'
A Dhaka court today extended till January 27, 2025 the deadline for submitting the probe report of a case filed over murders of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi in February 2012
In a similar accident yesterday morning, a private car driver was killed while 15 others were injured on this expressway
Workers blocked the Dhaka-Tangail highway in the Konabari area of Gazipur this morning, demanding the reopening of two factories that were shut down last week
Poton was shown arrested in the case after the IO submitted an application in this regard
Law Adviser Prof Asif Nazrul today said Sheikh Hasina's fascist regime used the higher court’s immense power to consolidate its power
All the eight accused were produced before the court amid a tight security
The ACC initiated the case after an investigation into the allegations of corruption
Ankara-backed rebels played a key role in supporting Sharaa's Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which headed a rebel alliance that seized Damascus on December 8, toppling longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad.
