A first-year resident of Dhaka University’s Bijoy Ekattor Hall was beaten up on Friday night after he failed to show up at Bangladesh Chhatra League’s programmes.

Three alleged drug peddlers were killed in “gunfights” with BGB and police in Cox’s Bazar and Mymensingh early yesterday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday assured his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in India would have no impact on Bangladesh and there was no need to be worried about it.

Expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan made crores of Taka running “casinos” at sporting clubs and through illegal drug trade, extortion and tender manipulation, Rab told a Dhaka court yesterday.

Indiscriminate use of antibiotics by farmers in treating cattle diseases is posing a public health risk as the medicines enter the food chain through various avenues.

Mohammad Enamul had gone to South Africa 16 years back. After one year of hard work, he started a grocery shop with his savings and additional capital from home in Comilla.

An executive meeting of the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union yesterday accepted a proposal for pressing a ban on religion-based student politics on the campus.

A statue of lord Shiva, kept in an Old Dhaka monastery for ages largely beyond public knowledge, offers a new gateway to history as well as ancient art and heritage of this region.

Have you ever heard of a chairman of a university department officially recommending himself for his enrolment in a Master’s course at that very department and eventually having the degree?

Police recovered the bodies of four members of a Buddhist family from the home of a Qatar expatriate in the district’s Ukhia upazila yesterday. The expatriate, Loken Barua, was on his way to Bangladesh after the incident took place.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the world must take all measures to force Myanmar to create conditions enabling safe, dignified and voluntary return of Rohingyas to their ancestral home.

Director in-charge of Mohammedan Sporting Club Ltd M Lokman Hossain Bhuiyan admitted depositing around Tk 41 crore in two separate banks in Australia, Rab claimed yesterday.

People do not lack strength; they lack will, the French poet and novelist Victor Hugo once said. The words perfectly describe the government’s attitude thus far towards fixing the banking sector.

Rab headquarters and Rab-1 were jointly raiding the capital’s Fu Wang Club early today.

Any reforms in the banking sector will not be effective if those are made sparing loan defaulters, says Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled, former deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank.

The actual size of bad loans is more than double the officially recognised figure, according to a recent report of the International Monetary Fund -- a damning evidence of the fragile state of Bangladesh’s banking sector.

GK Shamim, who has recently been arrested with Tk 1.80 crore and FDR worth Tk 165 crore, is a director of a resort the authorities of which allegedly evicted inhabitants of a Marma Para in Bandarban Sadar upazila.

Mentioning that the Myanmar government is unwilling to resolve the Rohingya crisis, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said it is up to the international community to do something about it.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to place four proposals at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) seeking a peaceful and sustainable solution to the Rohingya crisis as it is badly affecting Bangladesh.

Taking advantage of loopholes in laws and policies, importers brought in at least five consignments of gambling equipment. Even though a 152-year-old law prohibits gambling and the constitution assigns the state to “adopt effective measures to prevent