A fire broke out in the chemical warehouse and several drums filled with chemicals exploded
Some 12 student representatives of the platform have placed the memo to Lt Gen (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury at the Secretariat today
Nasimul Gani, a 1982-batch administration cadre officer, joined the President's Office as senior secretary on August 18
The concept of reforms is not well understood by many, says Fakhrul
They made a statement through the Facebook page "CA Press Wing Facts"
Chairman of Anti-Corruption Commission Mohammad Abdul Momen has disclosed his wealth statement to the media
If Awami League comes to the next election, they will not be allowed to participate in the election under any circumstances until the July-August massacre and persecution are brought to justice, member-secretary of the Jatiya Nagorik Committee Akhtar Hossain said today
Postgraduate private trainee doctors withdrew their blockade at Dhaka’s Shahbagh this afternoon after seven hours
Two people were killed and another injured in separate road accidents in Patuakhali and Chattogram today..In Patuakhali, an agriculture officer was killed after a CNG-run auto-rickshaw carrying him collided head-on with an ambulance coming from the opposite direction in the district’s Baup
165 additional patients were hospitalised with viral fever
Bangladesh's Foreign Affairs Adviser Md Touhid Hossain conveyed this message to Myanmar during an informal consultation in Thailand
Police have filed an application to show former state minister for posts, telecommunications and information technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak arrested in a case filed over an attempt to kill Mohammad Shamim, a student of Dhaka College, during the quota reform movement on July 16
Two courts in Khulna today sent former Khulna-4 lawmaker and industrialist Abdus Salam Murshedi to jail after rejecting his bail petition in four cases related to killing, attacks and violence
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.
Pakistan military courts have convicted and sentenced 25 people for involvement in pro-Imran Khan unrest last year, the armed forces said yesterday, with the majority handed decade-long prison terms.
The Pakistani Taliban claimed a brazen overnight raid on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan yesterday, which intelligence officials said killed 16 soldiers and critically wounded five more.
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
India's green cover went up by 1,445 sq km from 2021 to 2023, reaching 25.17 per cent of its geographical area, according to official data made public today
Md Sad Radi, a Bangladeshi national from Rajshahi, was apprehended in Kerala without valid travel documents
The Pakistani Taliban claimed a brazen overnight raid on an army outpost near the border with Afghanistan on Saturday, which intelligence officials said killed 16 soldiers and critically wounded five more
Provincial authorities in northwestern Pakistan said yesterday they planned to collect heavy weapons to stop sectarian clashes that have killed hundreds, but tribesmen in the historically lawless region said they would not give up their arms.
Four people died when a helicopter crashed into a hospital in southwestern Turkey on Sunday, the provincial governor said, blaming the accident on thick fog
"This move gravely infringes on China's sovereignty and security interests," Beijing's foreign ministry said in a statement, adding it "firmly opposes this action".
The Panama Canal, which was completed by the United States in 1914, was returned to the Central American country under a 1977 deal signed by Democratic president Jimmy Carter.
At least 38 people were killed in a bus crash in southeastern Brazil on Saturday, officials said, in what President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called a "terrible tragedy"
The lifesaving nasal-spray medicine is everywhere in the 10 or more Hilltop “trap” houses where users come to buy and take fentanyl. Distributed free by local officials, supplies are abundant at the house where Sleaze smokes fentanyl and works security in exchange for drugs.
The seismic change in Syria is expected to yield deeper Turkish sway just as a change of US administration is raising questions over how long Washington will keep backing the country's Kurdish-led forces.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz yesterday condemned the “terrible, insane” car-ramming attack on a crowded Christmas market that killed five people and injured more than 200.
Kyiv yesterday staged a major drone attack on the Russian city of Kazan, 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) from the frontier, as Moscow’s troops captured a new frontline village in eastern Ukraine.
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
into an uphill battle, and one by one, they left for more secure livelihoods.
Women rights organisation Naripokkho received the “2023 Ruby Ghuznavi Award for Social Justice” in recognition of its long-standing work with the Biranganas, the war heroines of Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971.
During the 15 years of Awami League rule, police promotions heavily favoured high-ranking officials close to power, leaving lower-tier officers neglected, experts said at a dialogue organised by the Centre for Governance Studies (CGS) in Dhaka yesterday.
When a mob of at least a hundred locals was about to attack Minoti Rani’s house on the night of December 3 at Manglargaon village in Sunamganj, she grabbed her child and ran to the riverbank, leaving her home and belongings behind.
At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two factions of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) over supremacy in Munshiganj Sadar upazila today
Two people were killed as a truck hit their motorcycle in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur this afternoon
Several people were injured in three heinous robberies that took place in Ashulia, Savar, on the outskirts of the capital last night
At least 37,000 lives have been lost in road accidents over the last five years, according to a report by the Road Safety Foundation..The organisation published this data during a national dialogue on institutional management and structural reforms aimed at establishing discipline in the r
Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) held a demonstration today, demanding justice for their fellow student Mohtassim Masud, who was killed in a road accident on the Purbachal Expressway yesterday
Chief of the Health Sector Reforms Commission and National Professor Dr AK Azad Khan today said doctors taking commissions from pharmaceutical companies is not only unethical but also illegal
