Police this morning arrested one person accused in a case over the Rangpur arson attack on a bus that left six people killed.

Health Minister Mohammad Nasim today said the government was contemplating to increase internship tenure for MBBS doctors by one year.

Bangladeshi migrant workers often don't get expected services from the labour wings of the country's foreign missions despite the fact that they send home remittance of around $14 billion a year. In most cases, officials and staffs at the wings are unresponsive to the needs of the workers abroad, a number of migrant workers and rights activists told The Daily Star yesterday.

At least 219 candidates among 904 of the country’s maiden partisan municipality polls are accused in different criminal cases, an analysis of Sushashoner Jonno Nagorik (Sujan) said.

At least 15 people were injured in a clash between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League at Islamic University (IU) in the district

“I don't recall the exact date,” says Md Moharaz, 35. “It was two years ago, an afternoon in the Bangla month of Chaitra when my sister

The country's alem-ulema yesterday decided to issue a “fatwa” that Islam and its followers have no connection with militancy.

Students of Dhaka College yesterday clashed with traders on the stretch of Mirpur Road between New Market and Science Laboratory intersections, paralysing the city's busiest shopping hub for hours.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says there will be no existence of the cohorts of the defeated forces in Bangladesh.

Expatriates living in Middle East will not be affected by Islamic State (IS) because of Bangladesh’s allegiance to Saudi’s Islamic military coalition, commented Nurul Islam, minister for expatriates’ welfare and overseas employment.

Robbers looted valuables worth Tk 3.5 lakh from a group of students and teachers of Laxmipur Polytechnic Institute

The government has not made any move against a Pakistani female diplomat even though an arrested militant confessed his link with the envoy before a Dhaka court nine days ago.

Police recovered the bodies of a housewife and a man from two different places in the district on Monday noon. In Ullahpara upazila,

At least 87 people, including 11 Jamaat-Shibir men, were held during special drives by law enforcers in Jessore, Jhenidah and Satkhira

Around 15,000 workers from four tea gardens in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj district continued strike for the second day

A syndicate has continued forcing transport workers to pay huge illegal toll for loading and unloading imported and exported goods at

A TV journalist was arrested with 40,000 pieces of Yaba tablets worth around Tk 1.20 crore in Chittagong city yesterday.

Two people were killed over land disputes in Mymensingh and Kurigram districts yesterday.

Five more including four of a family are detained from Palashbari upazila of Dinajpur over Thursday’s attack on a temple in the district.

A BNP man was killed and three others injured in a clash with his neighbours at Dhanikhola Bhatipara village in Trishal upazila of the