Customs intelligence detain two passengers and seize 161 gold bars, weighing over 18 kilogrammes, from their possession at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka

Amnesty International urges the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to give up their power of veto in situations of mass atrocities

Reporters Without Borders has requested the authorities concerned not to take any judicial action against The Daily Star for publishing a photograph of a poster of banned militant organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir.

The Editors' Council has expressed serious concern, saying it has become difficult for the press and the national media to work independently and in an unbiased manner.

A day after the leak of two phone conversations of Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna, the organisation abruptly postponed its planned mass procession yesterday afternoon.

The death toll in Sunday's launch disaster in the Padma in Manikganj rose to 70, and the ill-fated vessel, MV Mostafa, was salvaged yesterday.

When Mamata Banerjee jokingly complained about not getting enough hilsa in Kolkata, Sheikh Hasina quipped: the more water flows into Bangladesh, the more hilsa there will be.

The fresh spell of 72-hour hartal from 6:00am today has forced the government to defer more SSC and equivalent public exams slated for today and Tuesday.

One more innocent life succumbs to the brutal and mindless arson today at the critical care of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s burn unit

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said actions would be taken against The Daily Star, the country's largest circulating English daily,

Abdul Matin sells caps and books at a roadside shop in the city's Tejturibazar area. His daily sale before the blockade was around Tk 1,000, which drastically dropped to Tk 400 now.

Online registration for people who seeking domestic jobs in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia begins across the country soon, says the expatriate welfare minister

“I will die. Doctors said I will not survive,” Anwar Hossain kept repeating, lying in his bed at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

The Chittagong Hill Tracts International Commission has expressed grave concern over the home ministry order banning any unsupervised meeting or talking with the adivasis and restricting foreigners' access to the hill districts.

Prominent singer Baby Nazneen has been picked up when she went to visit BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office in Dhaka

Almost 200 pilot whales have stranded themselves on New Zealand's South Island, as rescuers and volunteers raced to refloat them

More than one thousand students from 25 education institutions, mostly schools in Motijheel and adjacent areas, were made to stand in the sun for two and a half hours for a human chain yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government would sue BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia for "instigating, patronising and financing" the ongoing violence that left around 70 people dead in the country.

Deaths of 32 patients, including 10 babies, in less than 24 hours have brought to the fore allegations of negligence in treating patients at the MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital in Sylhet.

Defying all odds, the first paper of the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations was held yesterday peacefully amid tight security, but only to meet with fresh uncertainties ahead.