The US Embassy and Australian High Commission update travel advises for their citizens living in Bangladesh following the hostage crisis at a restaurant in Dhaka that claimed 28 lives.

Islamic State claims responsibility of the attack in the Spanish restaurant at Dhaka’s Gulshan diplomatic zone where at least two police officers have died and over 20 others being held hostage.

Hostages are being held at gunpoint inside the Gulshan restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone where all attention converged, according to a top police official.

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Stay tuned with The Daily Star for live updates of the hostage crisis at a restaurant in Gulshan, Dhaka.

Hundreds of trucks, buses and small vehicles are seen lined up on the highway to a three-kilometre tailback at Paturia ferry terminal at around 1:30 pm.

Vice Chancellor Prof Abdul Hakim Sarkar of Islamic University (IU) has been removed from his post.

Majher Char, an island in the river Baleshwar of the district, is under serious threat of being washed away due to continuous erosion.

Jarina Begum was very disturbed as she was stepping down from a luxury air-conditioned coach of Hanif Paribahan at Jhalmalia under

Two Bangladeshi kids returned home from an Indian shelter home through Hili immigration inHakimpur upazila yesterday. They are an

Dinajpur is preparing to hold the country's largest Eid congregation at historic Gore-e-Shahid Boro Math in the northern district town.

Launch owners kept suspended their services on Paturia-Daulatdia and Aricha-Nagarbari routes for over three hours from 12 noon

Direct bus services on Dhaka-Natore and Rajshahi-Natore remain suspended for the second consecutive day following a conflict between local bus owners, causing immense sufferings to the passengers ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.

Hundreds of people of the Jamuna basin area under Shariakandi upazila of Bogra have been confined by flood water during the last five days.

A village cop (Gram Police) was assaulted allegedly by gamblers as he protested against open gambling at Ketkibari village in Nawdabansh union under Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat on Tuesday night.

Police arrested 15 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in Bongaon area of Nachole upazila

Jesmina Begum, 48, was crying as their homestead with ten decimals of land at Dawabari village under Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat was devoured by the Teesta River on Tuesday afternoon. Their six bighas of croplands were devoured in the last two weeks.

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission will sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft Corporation tomorrow regarding the exchange of information of any probable cyber threats in the country.

China could file suit at the World Trade Organization in order to protect its steel industry, the Commerce Ministry said on Tuesday,

It took just one murder to change everything. The once peaceful village life, full of innocence, turned into one of apprehension, doubt