Bangladesh ace allrounder Shakib Al Hasan returns to Indian Premier League with a splendid performance for Kolkata Knight Riders in their match against Mumbai Indians on May 14, 2015.

A man is killed by thunderbolts and two people are electrocuted during the downpour in Dhaka this afternoon.

Firefighters bring the fire that broke out at a multi-storey building at Paltan in Dhaka under control in an hour-long effort.

After a heat wave, Dhaka city dwellers heave a sigh of relief with a downpour.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein urges governments in the South East Asia region to take swift action to protect their lives.

In a one-to-one conversation with The Daily Star, Bangladesh Chhatra Union activist Ismat Jahan Joe tells of her account of the day when students were thrashed away by cops while trying to lay a siege to Dhaka police headquarters protesting the April 14 sexual assault on women.

Customs officials detained a North Korean national with cache of alcohol and Viagra pills from a Banani restaurant in Dhaka.

A police constable is killed in Jessore Sadar upazila after a passenger bus rammed his motorbike from behind on the Jessore-Magura highway.

The US stress on regional solution to the issue of drifting sea migrants and urge countries to accommodate the people at their vicinity.

Another 700 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants are rescued off Indonesia on Friday, police say, as Myanmar undermined calls for a coordinated response to the human-trafficking crisis by threatening to boycott a planned Southeast Asian summit.

Speaking about criticism surrounding Mushfiqur Rahim's Test captaincy, former Bangladesh captain Gazi Ashraf Hossain says: "How will you judge a general's capabilities on the battlefield when you give him a gun without bullets?"

Rapid Action Battalion detains three suspected human traffickers and rescues seven victims in a drive launched in Fakirapol area of Dhaka this evening.

Out of 13,321 immigrants in 12 detention camps, 1, 466 are from Bangladesh, reports the Star’s Bahasa Malaysia portal MStar.

Two migrant workers return from Brunei penniless early today after they were cheated by two Bangladeshi recruiting agencies with the promise of lucrative salaries abroad.

Body of a minor girl is recovered from a manhole near her house at Satmasjid Housing Society in Mohammadpur area of Dhaka.

About 400 illegal migrants including Bangladesh nationals and Rohingya from Myanmar have been transported from Langkawi to Belantik Immigration Detention Depot, while 500 more are expected to be sent to the depot.

BNP urges the government to show a “humane attitude” towards Salahuddin Ahmed by assisting his family to bring him back home safely from India.

Interpol’s Dhaka office has sent a “letter of request” to its New Delhi office to arrest BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, who was found in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, two months after his missing from Dhaka.

Myanmar migrants on a boat stranded for a week in the Andaman Sea with no food or water say 10 people have died, while some are resorting to drinking urine.

A college student is killed and at least five people are injured today in a clash between two groups of locals over a land dispute at Uttar Kalshi of Pallabi in Dhaka.