“Casino” in Bangladesh! Not one or two, 60 in total are operating right in Dhaka city. It’s no makeshift, behind-the-shanty mundane affair. Inside, those “casinos” are as real and as glittering as in Las Vegas. All were there: gambling machine, liquor, and swirling of no less than 120 crore taka every night.

They were next-door neighbours. Fakirerpool Young Men’s Club and Dhaka Wanderers Club that had been running “casinos” are just behind the Motijheel Police Station, separated only by the walls of a police barracks.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hinted at even tougher action against party men indulging in corruption and misdeeds.

The government is now equipped to monitor, block or filter online contents, including those on social media.

A US drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labour in the fields, officials said yesterday.

Describing Rohingyas as a big burden for Bangladesh, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said Myanmar should take back its citizens.

Goons of a union parishad chairman cut off the wrists of a man early yesterday following feud over the leases of a cattle market and a river ghat in Chapainawabganj’s Shibganj upazila, the victim has alleged.

Japanese investors have never been so interested in investing in Bangladesh, but administrative and regulatory reforms are needed to attract them, analysts and businesspeople said yesterday.

Several thousand students demanded the removal of the vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) in Gopalganj yesterday, amid widespread allegations of corruption and irregularities.

Dhaka University students laying siege to the office of business faculty dean were attacked allegedly by Chhatra League men yesterday. The protesters, mostly quota reformists and activists of left-leaning organisations, were demonstrating in front the dean’s office

Police Headquarters has suspended Obaidul Haque, officer-in-charge of Pabna Sadar Police Station, for his involvement in arranging marriage of a rape victim and accused.

The government’s recent measures to prop up the stock market appear to have failed as the unusual fall of share prices continues to rattle investors.

A positive mindset, proper game plan and perfect execution helped Bangladesh clinch a much-needed win and seal a place in the final of the tri-nation T20I series as they beat Zimbabwe by 39 runs in in Chattogram yesterday.

Rab last night arrested Jubo League Dhaka South Organising Secretary Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan at his Gulshan home in connection with running a “casino” at a football club in Fakirerpool.

Terming the pay scales of the 9th Newspaper Wage Board unrealistic, Newspaper Owners’ Association of Bangladesh (Noab) yesterday said no newspaper was capable of implementing the 9th Wage Board.

Jahangirnagar University Vice-chancellor Prof Farzana Islam will face action if the allegation of giving money to Chhatra League leaders is found to be true, Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said yesterday.

Bangladesh has a plan to procure three more Dash planes for Biman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said.

A nexus of brokers and some dishonest staffers of the Election Commission’s Chattogram office provides forged national identity cards to Rohingyas, an EC investigation team has found.

The Chattogram Customs House has recently seized 2,717 tonnes of imported fish and poultry feed containing hazardous ingredients like meat and bone meal (MBM), animal bones and by-products of pigs, which can cause cancer in humans.

Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a “serious risk of genocide”, UN investigators said yesterday, warning the repatriation of a million already driven from the country by the army remains “impossible”.