Demonstrators block Dhaka's Shahbagh intersection demanding a rise in the age ceiling for civil service. Currently, the age limit to apply for civil service is 30. Demonstrators demand that the ceiling be raised to 35.

The final round of regional Math Olympiad comprising the students of four districts begins at Dhaka Residential Model School and College.

2 members of Rapid Action Battalion were killed and six others injured in a head on collision between a truck and a Rab pick-up van in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj.

England overwhelm West Indies by 61 runs thanks to a brilliant day on the field with the bat and ball in the 7th match of the U19 ICC CWC at Chittagong.

President Abdul Hamid asks the members of Bangladesh Police to give special attention while discharging their duties so that no one is harassed.

An examinee of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) is stabbed to death by his friends in Mymensingh.

The system of printed cause list, a roll of cases to be heard by the High Court on a day, is to run run till February 15.

Food Minister Qamrul Islam tells parliament that formulation of an education law is now at the “final stage” for ensuring quality education in the country.

Two top mobile phone operators in the country, Robi and Airtel signs the formal deal for merging together in the country.

Police in Chittagong blames Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, for plotting to create communal riots for ousting the government.

Bangladesh’s off-spinner Sanjit Saha has been reported with a suspect bowling action during the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2016.

Bangladesh Bank official Golam Rabby, who was subjected to police torture for bribe, has rejected the report submitted to the Supreme Court over the incident. “I did not do anything, they grabbed me by my collar from the behind,” he tells The Daily Star hours after the report is filed to the apex court.

A Dhaka court places the lone arrestee in connection with sexual assault during Pahela Baishakh celebration at Dhaka University on a two-day remand. The arrestee is among the eight persons identified from CCTV footage.

Eleven personalities have been declared recipients for Bangla Academy Sahitya Purashkar-2016.

Dhaka, one of the oldest metropolises in this part of the subcontinent, has crossed the enviable milestone of 400 years. The city, founded by the Mughals in the 17th century, was the economic capital of the Mughal Empire, and later saw rapid growth in urbanization during the British colonization in the late 19th and early 20th century.

The Supreme Court directs Bangladesh Bank to allow Farmers Bank to seek review of the central bank’s order that fined the bank Tk 10 lakh for concealing information.

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir flies to Singapore for a regular health check up. He will check his health at National University Hospital of that country.

Bangladesh slipped one notch to rank the 13th most corrupt country in the world in 2015, according to the global corruption index of Transparency International.

BNP leader Gayeshwar Chandra Roy demands that the government publish the names of all 30 lakh people martyred in the 1971 Liberation War.

A Chittagong court sentences three bankers and a businessman to 20 years’ imprisonment each in four cases filed 28 years ago over money embezzlement.