Bangladesh cricket was rocked to its foundations last evening when the International Cricket Council (ICC) informed that it had banned Shakib Al Hasan from all forms of cricket for two years for not informing the ICC’s anti-corruption unit (ACU) of three separate approaches by a bookmaker seeking match information.

Eid-e-Miladunnabi, the day of birth and demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), will be observed in the country on November 10 as the moon of Rabiul Awal was sighted in Bangladesh sky yesterday.

Even three years after arson attacks and vandalism on the homes and temples of Hindus in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar upazila, those responsible are still to face any punishment as the investigations of most of the cases are yet to be complete.

Four people have been sued for raping a two-year-old and a fifth-grader in Bagerhat and Thakurgaon.

Irregularities in the overseas jobs sector are making migrant workers go undocumented and are even contributing to the closing of labour markets, said Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmed on Sunday.

Workers Party President Rashed Khan Menon said he was sorry for the “confusion” created over his recent comments about the December 30 parliamentary polls.

Computer engineering and IT graduates have a higher job placement rate than any other graduates in the country’s job market, a recent study found.

Protesting teachers and students of Jahangirnagar University began a strike yesterday demanding the vice-chancellor’s removal.

In the space of five days, Bangladesh Test and T20I skipper Shakib Al Hasan went from being the leader in a players’ strike to improve the status of the country’s cricketers to plunging the national team’s plans into uncertainty on the eve of an important tour of India.

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) in January 2013 made its biggest recruitment in recent times, 149 people, including 50 vehicle inspectors.

Dhaka Water Supply & Sewerage Authority has issued a rejoinder against a report headlined “JS body blasts Wasa boss for utility’s failure” published in The Daily Star on October 21.

Two workers were killed and seven others injured as the roof of an under-construction building collapsed at Barapukuria coalmine site in Dinajpur yesterday.

The number of landless people in rural areas declined in the last 11 years reversing the previous trend, according to the preliminary findings of Agriculture Census 2019.

Fugitive Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died “whimpering and crying” in a raid by US special forces in northwest Syria, President Donald Trump announced yesterday, fulfilling what he called his top national security goal.

The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) yesterday raided the house of controversial industrialist and film producer Aziz Mohammad Bhai, in the capital’s Gulshan-2.

At a time when safe disposal of medical waste is a nationwide concern, two waste treatment devices have been sitting idle since 2015.

Untreated medical wastes are accumulating at landfills in seven divisional cities, posing serious threat to public health.

A woman was allegedly gang-raped, first by a group of four men in front of her two-year-old son and then by a Chhatra League leader who “rescued” her from the four, at Monpura upazila in Bhola on Saturday evening.

Academic activities at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology are yet to resume even three weeks after Abrar Fahad’s murder.

There will be not much festivities centring Kali Puja today in Bhola where tensions still prevail following a clash in Borhanuddin upazila that left four people dead.