Bangladesh Water Transport Workers Federation rejects ‘sole killer’ claim, demands arrest of real culprits, safety of all workers
She also added that the government will make public the final report of the probe committee
A Tripura community elder filed the FIR, said the press wing of the Chief Adviser Office.
A Dhaka court today rejected bail petitions of former food minister Qamrul Islam and former Awami League lawmaker Solaiman Mohammad Salim and sent them to jail in a case filed over death of Jubo Dal leader Shamim Mia in Dhaka's Paltan last year.
A total of 1,405 people were arrested from different parts of the country for their involvement in various crimes
An electrical short circuit struck his left hand, causing severe injuries
Police recovered the body of a woman with stab wounds from a pond in Meherpur’s Sadar upazila this afternoon, a day after she went missing
The government has instructed India-based Islamic scholar Muhammad Saad Kandhalvi’s followers to refrain from all activities of Tabligh Jamaat for an indefinite period
The growers dumped onion on Pabna-Sujanagar road demanding a fair price
A farmer of Sirajganj’s Kamarkhand area, Mahabub Hossain Polash, has initiated experimental cultivation of cumin for the first time in the district
A Bangladeshi teenager was shot dead allegedly by Khasi People of India's Meghalaya along the Minatila border in Sylhet's Jaintiapur upazila this afternoon
The renovation and expansion work of the approach road of Shibpasha Bridge in Ajmeriganj upazila of Habiganj has remained incomplete well past its stipulated deadline
A Chandpur court yesterday granted a seven-day remand for the accused
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.
On December 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's western tip generated a series of massive waves
A total of 1,534 detainees escaped the high-security prison located about 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the capital
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.
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
More than 1,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded in Russia’s war with Ukraine, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said yesterday.
US President Joe Biden yesterday commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole before he hands over power to President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20.
Just 12 trucks distributed food and water in northern Gaza in two-and-a-half months, aid group Oxfam said on Sunday, raising the alarm over the worsening humanitarian situation in the besieged territory.
At least nine people were killed yesterday when a bus collided with a fuel truck in Iran’s southeast, state media reported, the second mass casualty road accident within days.
District Admin to introduce 10 more buses soon
Body of a student who was a victim of July-August uprising was exhumed from the graveyard today after four and a half months at Jorgasa Shorup village in Pabna's Shanthia upazila
The education ministry today issued a directive to vice-chancellors (VCs) of the public universities to continue with the cluster system for admission in their institutes
The decision was taken at a meeting of the ECNEC with its Chairperson and Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus in the chair held at the NEC Conference Room in the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.
Arafat's brother Hasan Ali conducted the janaza.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi today said the government risks an unfortunate comparison between the previous Awami League government and the present one if it delays elections
