President Abdul Hamid invites BNP Chief Khaleda at his official residence Bangabhaban in Dhaka to attend programme marking the Independence Day tomorrow

All banks in Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan areas will stay open this weekend – Friday and Saturday – for the upcoming city corporation polls

Pro-BNP professionals suggest extending deadline for submission of nomination for the Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections by two to three days

Two more arson victims, who suffered severe burns in separate firebomb attacks in Chandpur and Magura, die at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital

10 British MPs move so that the UK government put pressure on Bangladesh to stop disappearances and extra-judicial killings.

The trial of war criminals passes yet another year with two special war crimes courts having delivered eight verdicts so far

State Minister for Finance M Abdul Mannan told the parliament that the government would take stern actions against banks concerned if the allegation of funding militancy is proved

BNP will decide in two days whether it would field any candidates in the upcoming Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections, a senior leader of the party says

Bangladeshi labourer Helal Uddin, who was kidnapped by militants in Libya on March 6, talks with his family in Jamalpur over phone and expects release in 2/3 days.

The High Court questions the legality of “police torture” on ABM Mizanur Rahman, Baufal correspondent of Bangla daily Prothom Alo

The Daily Star O- & A-Level Awards programme at Mirpur Indoor Stadium on March 28, 2015

Investigators have primarily found evidence against eight suspected war criminals of Jamalpur for their alleged crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

The newly elected president and general secretary of Dhaka Taxes Bar Association fail to meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia as police intercepted them in front of her Gulshan office.

The government is going to lift a recently imposed restriction, allowing foreign tourists to visit Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) without permission from the home ministry

Law enforcers, in separate drives, have rescued 52 fortune seekers from Dhaka, Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar while allegedly being trafficked to Malaysia

The Election Commission has issued show cause notices to 12 councillor aspirants of the Dhaka South City Corporation elections for not bringing down their electoral posters till today.

Detectives arrest two smugglers along with 120,000 pieces of yaba in Demra area of Dhaka

Government approves in principle drafts of two acts for establishing two medical universities in Rajshahi and Chittagong in a bid to create more specialised doctors

Election Working Group (EWG) urges the Election Commission (EC) to take measures for ensuring a level-playing field for candidates in Dhaka and Chittagong city polls

Government should resign if it fails to return missing BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh chief AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury says