On the night of April 22, 2019, a group of 14 to 15 men in plainclothes intercepted a bus in Chattogram city’s Shikalbaha area and beat up the driver in front of the supervisor, helper and all the passengers.

Muslims in Bangladesh have started observing the holy month of Ramadan, the lunar month of self-purification through fasting and abstinence, from today as the new crescent moon was sighted yesterday.

A 14-year-old boy died yesterday after his co-worker in Anwara Mannan Textile Mill at Sreepur pumped air through his rectum.

While the Roads and Highways Department says 44 of its ongoing projects will be wrapped up this fiscal year, documents reveal only three would end within their original deadlines.

The RMG Sustainability Council (RSC) has sent a rejoinder to a report, run by The Daily Star on March 13 under the headline “Not much done since Accord left”.

Eleven family members of Mohibullah, a Rohingya leader who was killed in Cox’s Bazar’s Kutupalong camp six months ago, have been relocated to Canada.

Sri Lanka was under heavy security yesterday after hundreds of protesters tried to storm the president’s home in a night of violence and anger at the unprecedented economic crisis.

She was among those who demanded safe roads during the student movement in 2018. Four years later, she herself has become a victim of road accident.

The US will bolster security in the Indo-Pacific region as threats are evolving, said US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas yesterday, while terming Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a wake-up call.

Indecision, short-sightedness and piecemeal measures have long been plaguing the government plan to upgrade Dhaka-Chattogram corridor, considered the economic lifeline of the country.

Businesses yesterday called for policy assistance, policy continuity and corporate tax cuts in the upcoming budget for fiscal 2022-23 to help them thrive in the post-pandemic world. 

Bangladeshi journalist Zahidur Rahman and expatriate engineer Saiful Islam Tipu, who had gone missing in Tripoli, were released from the “safe custody” of the Libyan authorities yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Bangladesh abstained from voting on the UN General Assembly resolution reprimanding Russia for invading Ukraine as it was against a particular country.

The killers of Ananta Bijoy Das wanted to stop him writing and also to silence those who champion the cause of free speech.

A main ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan quit his ruling coalition yesterday and joined forces with the opposition seeking to oust him, robbing Khan of his majority in parliament as he faces a looming no-confidence vote.

If you want to lead a quality life in a city, Dhaka is not the place you should be looking for.

A probe report on the breach of NBR server that saw the release of 11 import consignments last year has raised more questions than it answered.

Nine-year-old Humayara Yeasmin Ohi could hardly care about the wounds on her knees and elbows -- the wounds from an accident that turned her world upside down.

Opposition lawmakers yesterday slammed the government for failing to control corruption and irregularities at public universities.

A cholera outbreak seems to have returned to the city and is being transmitted by the Wasa water supply system.