Abu Sayeed Al Mahmood, elected lawmaker from Joypurhat-2, in a Facebook post has urged locals in his area to “stop flattering” him at the various programmes he attends.

An estimated Tk 50 to 60 lakh is extorted monthly from street vendors at Mirpur-10 roundabout and adjoining places, and the control over the easy money sometimes leads to clashes among the beneficiaries.

For her birthday yesterday, all she wanted was a teddy bear from her parents. Billal Hossain, her uncle, was going to buy her one as a surprise.

World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim unexpectedly resigned on Monday, more than three years before his term ends in 2022, amid differences with the Trump administration over climate change and the need for more development resources.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday discussed an expected US-North Korea summit in talks in Beijing, Yonhap news agency said, days after Kim warned he may take an alternative path if the United States does not ease sanctions.

Vehicles start to move on the busy Airport Road in Dhaka after the protesting ready-made garments workers withdrew the blockade that was imposed around noon.

Saudi Arabia is going to deport scores of Rohingyas, held indefinitely by the kingdom, to Bangladesh, reports Middle East Eye (MEE), a London-based news portal covering events in the Middle East.

Myanmar government leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday discussed insurgent attacks on Myanmar police in a rare meeting with the military chief, and her administration called for the armed forces to "crush" the rebels, a government spokesman said.

WikiLeaks on Sunday advised journalists not to report 140 different "false and defamatory" statements about its founder Julian Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London since June 2012.

China has executed a farmer who attacked several children with a knife at a kindergarten in a southern Chinese city two years ago, state media reported yesterday.

China said yesterday it would welcome UN officials to the restive western region of Xinjiang with the condition that they stay out of the country's internal affairs.

The organisers of a major Indian science conference distanced themselves Sunday from speakers who used the prestigious event to dismiss Einstein's discoveries and claim ancient Hindus invented stem cell research.

A Bangladesh-born UK citizen on Sunday was found dead in front of a drug rehabilitation centre in Moulvibazar's Sadar upazila where the victim was receiving treatment for the last couple of days.

An eight-year-old girl was killed after being “raped” in Gabtala village of the district's Ashashuni upazila on Sunday evening.

A man was killed and at least two others were injured in a clash between two groups of “Jubo League men” allegedly over controlling collection of extortion money from footpath vendors in the city's Mirpur area yesterday.

The Daily Star's Sohel Parvez and Jahurul Islam Sojol with the help of a few others have made an effort to analyse the affidavits

An EC-registered organisation which observed the December 30 election and termed it “free and fair” is said to have links with the ruling Awami League led grand alliance.

Two workers were killed in a landslide at an illegal stone quarry in Shah Arefin Tila area in Bholaganj of Sylhet's Companiganj upazila yesterday afternoon.

Amid growing protests over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016, at least 30 indigenous groups, including the North East Students' Organisation (NESO), have called an 11 hour-long strike across Assam tomorrow.

Veteran Awami League (AL) leader also Public Administration Minister Syed Ashraful Islam is laid to eternal rest in the city’s Banani graveyard after Asr prayers , three days after he breathed his last at the age of 68 on Thursday.