South Korea's acting president faced an impeachment vote on Friday, as the country struggled to shake off political turmoil sparked by his predecessor's martial law declaration that shocked the world.
A 16-year-old Bangladeshi teenager died yesterday after being shot allegedly by members of India’s Khasia community along the Bangladesh-India border near Jaintiapur upazila of Sylhet.
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
Police arrested four people over the incident of arson, in which houses of Tripura community in Bandarban’s Lama were torched early Wednesday.
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 16-year-old SSC examinee died from electrocution caused by an electrical short circuit in Chaugachha upazila of Jashore yesterday.
National Security Intelligence, Customs Intelligence and Investigation Department, and security personnel of Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport yesterday seized 20 gold bars from a passenger seat of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight.
Around 50,000 residents from 10 villages along the Gumani River in Pabna are suffering due to the absence of a connecting bridge.
Water transport workers has started an indefinite strike from midnight
The newly approved draft Cyber Protection Ordinance retains many of the clauses of its predecessors that drew flak from across the world for stifling freedom of expression.
When Dollar Mahmud was 10, his father, Robiul Karim, left for Malaysia, hoping to secure a better future for his family.
The Ministry of Home Affairs in a circular yesterday requested foreign nationals who are staying or working illegally in the country to acquire the necessary documents to stay or work in Bangladesh by January 31.
July Shaheed Smriti Foundation General Secretary Sarjis Alam, who played a key role in the July-August uprising that toppled the previous government, said Thursday's Secretariat fire was part of a planned, premeditated conspiracy
China has approved the construction of what will be the world’s largest hydropower dam, kicking off an ambitious project on the eastern rim of the Tibetan plateau that could affect millions downstream in India and Bangladesh.
South Korea’s opposition said yesterday it filed an impeachment motion against acting president Han Duck-soo, in an escalating row over the composition of the Constitutional Court which would decide whether to remove his predecessor from office.
A Pakistani military court sentenced 60 civilians to 2–10 years in prison for attacks on military facilities after former prime minister Imran Khan’s 2023 arrest, the military’s media wing said yesterday.
Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's economic reforms, passed away in New Delhi last night. He was 92.
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.
The United Nations’ peacekeeping force in Lebanon yesterday expressed concern at the “continuing” damage done by Israeli forces in the country’s south despite a ceasefire in the war with Hezbollah.
On December 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's western tip generated a series of massive waves
Gaza authorities said an Israeli airstrike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital yesterday, though Israel’s army said it had attacked a vehicle carrying Islamic Jihad fighters.
A total of 1,534 detainees escaped the high-security prison located about 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the capital
Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh was admitted today to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi after his health condition deteriorated
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.
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
As inflation greets Bangladeshis at breakfast time, even the humble paratha becomes a symbol of struggle. Once hearty and filling, it now arrives thinner and lighter -- a daily reminder of the unending calculations between hunger and affordability.
Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday dismissed recent threats made by US President-elect Donald Trump to retake control of the Panama Canal over complaints of “unfair” treatment of American ships.
UK Treasury’s Economic Secretary Tulip Siddiq has been questioned by a Cabinet Office team on graft accusations brought by Bangladesh authorities.
Seven crew members were killed in a brutal attack aboard a bulk carrier in the Meghna in Chandpur early yesterday.
Three teenage boys lost their lives early yesterday when the motorcycle carrying them collided with a roadside electric pole in Cumilla’s Sadar upazila when they were returning home after attending a wedding ceremony.
The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed cases against nine individuals, including two former cabinet members of the Awami League government, two lawmakers, and a former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank, over illegal wealth amounting to Tk 2,384.70 crore.
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.
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.
