Previous experience of KSRM Group officials in dealing with Somalian pirates during the hijack of MV Jahan Moni in 2010 helped them secure the release of MV Abdullah and its 23 crew members through successful negotiations.

A local Awami League leader was detained yesterday for allegedly assaulting a journalist in Tangail’s Sakhipur upazila.

A union parishad member was murdered in broad daylight by unidentified criminals in Sadar upazila of Narsingdi yesterday.

An upazila chairman candidate was abducted allegedly by his political rivals from in front of the Natore district election office in broad daylight yesterday afternoon and was beaten before being left in front of his home around an hour later.

A Chattogram court today issued an arrest warrant against the former Ducsu vice-president Nurul Haque Nur in a case filed under the Digital Security Act in Chattogram for allegedly making "derogatory remarks" about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Deputy Education Minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhury Nowfel

A union parishad member was shot and hacked to death by unidentified criminals in Sadar upazila of Narsingdi today

Police last night recovered the body of a man who was stabbed and dumped in a pond in Dhaka’s Pallabi area

Somali pirates yesterday released hijacked Bangladeshi ship MV Abdullah and the 23 crew members after receiving ransom of $5 million, according to Reuters and several Somali news portals

Police have arrested four persons in a case filed over abduction and gang-rape of a 10th-grader in Naria upazila of Shariatpur.

A Bandarban court has sent four persons to jail after they were produced before it shown arrested in connection with the bank robberies and looting of money and weapons in Ruma and Thanchi upazilas.

The hijacked Bangladeshi ship MV Abdullah and its 23 crewmen were freed as negotiation with the pirates adhering to international rules paid results, the ship-owning firm KSRM Group has informed.

A doctor suffered serious injuries after being attacked over the death of a patient at a private hospital in Chattogram today.

Somali pirates released a hijacked ship, MV Abdullah, and its crew of 23 early on Sunday after a $5 million ransom was paid, according to two pirates

Two bombs go off during Pohela Boishakh celebrations of the Bangla New Year 1408 on April 14, 2001, killing 10 people and injuring dozens of others at leading cultural organisation Chhayanaut’s event at Ramna Batamul in Dhaka

It has been 23 years since the gruesome bomb attack on Ramna Batamul that left 10 people dead and several others injured during Pahela Baishakh celebrations

The Daily Star spoke to the family members of one crew member to find out how the events unfolded

The ship, owned by KSRM Group, was captured at gunpoint on March 12 around 600 nautical miles off the Somalian coast while carrying coal from Maputo in Mozambique to Al Hamriyah in the UAE

Five people were arrested in a case filed over the rape of a young woman at Ghatbila of Bagerhat's Mollahat upazila early today

A man was shot dead and seven people were injured, including one with bullet wounds, during a clash between two rival groups of Awami League in Munshiganj

Police recovered a statue of lord Vishnu, weighing 36 kilogrammes, from near a cropland in Munshiganj Sadar upazila this morning. .Khorshed, a farmer, was working in his field in the morning when he first spotted the idol and called police. .Around 9:00am, the law enforcers recovered