Dhaka art aficionados enjoy a scintillating dance-presentation, 'Looking forward to the past', a multi-layered, inter-cultural dance production directed by Donald Byrd, Artistic Director of Spectrum Dance Theater in Seattle.

Shayera Moula who had been with The Daily Star since the age of 15 passed away in the capital's United Hospital last night, succumbing to infections she battled for the past three weeks.

Restaurants in Dhaka city become abuzz with happy customers going to different restaurant and enjoying the delicious food with amazing reduced prices as restaurant week kicks off.

A Dhaka court places on 10-day remand two people arrested on charge of gang-raping a 21-year-old indigenous woman on May 21.

Something as simple and readily available like a piece of string or thread can be turned into a cool wristband.

An alleged drug peddler is killed in a "shootout" with Rapid Action Battalion at Motijheel in Dhaka.

The fire that broke out at a nine-storey building on the Elephant Road in Dhaka was doused this evening.

It is a rare sense of relief to note that the Rab has been able to arrest two men in connection with the gang-rape of a young Garo woman a few days ago.

Sundarban Hotel in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar is evacuated fearing collapse after a boundary wall caved in because of an adjacent under-construction site.

The 21-year-old Garo woman, who was gang-raped on running microbus in Dhaka, was lured by the promise of a better job.

A woman is murdered by unidentified assailants inside her own residence in Dhaka's Nikunja area.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Dhaka for the first time on a two-day state visit on June 6, official announcements say. Some key instruments, including the much-awaited land boundary deal, are expected to be finalised during the Indian premier’s visit.

Government’s ban on Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), an Islamist outfit blamed for the killings of two free-thinkers and bloggers in Dhaka and one in Sylhet in a span of only 75 days, came on the heel of utter failure of law enforcing agencies.

A Dhaka court sentences a schoolteacher to life term imprisonment for raping his five-year-old student in March last year.

Nor'wester lashes Dhaka and four other districts.

Police in separate drives arrest 22 robbers from different parts in Dhaka.

A man allegedly stab dead his cousin in Sutrapur of Old Dhaka.

Six people including five prisoners die as two human hauliers collide head-on in Gazipur.

Law enforcers are suspecting that the recent gang-rape of a Garo woman in the capital was pre-planned.

Bhashantek slum residents are being deprived of the facilities as well as their fundamental rights, despite paying five times higher than the other Dhaka city dwellers pay for getting minimum facilities of sanitation and waste management.