The nation is observing the 95th birth anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the National Children’s Day  today.Different socio-political and cultural organizations including the ruling Awami League and its ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday paid tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of his 95th birth anniversary.She paid homage by placing wreaths ...

Expressing disappointment at the current ‘political standoff’ in Bangladesh UK’s Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Development (DFID) Mark Lowcock on Monday said it is ‘very distressing’ for foreign ...

A 20-year-old man was charged on Sunday with first-degree assault in last week's shooting of two policemen during a protest rally in Ferguson, Missouri, a crime that shocked a city ...

The high court says, Why the student will not get second time chance to admission test. The University of Dhaka had abolished the opportunity of this for the second time ...

The High Court on Sunday re-set 13 April for the judgment on its long-pending rule asking the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to explain why the Barapukuria coalmine case filed against BNP ...

China has overtaken Germany to become the world's third-biggest arms exporter, although its 5 per cent of the market remains small compared to the combined 58 per cent of exports ...

Three British teenagers who were planning to join Islamic State militants in Syria were detained in the Turkish city of Istanbul, Turkish officials said on Sunday. The three, who have not ...

The probe committee formed by Shipping Ministry to investigate the capsize of ‘OT Southern Star-7’ capsize in Shela River in Bagerhat and ‘MV Mostafa’ in the Padma River near Paturia ...

The tomb of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been almost completely levelled in fighting near Tikrit.Footage filmed by the Associated Press shows all that remains of the once-lavish mausoleum ...

Moscow was ready to put its nuclear forces on alert to ensure Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine last year, President Vladimir Putin said in a pre-recorded documentary aired on ...

Miscreants vandalised three electronics showrooms at Lalkhan bazar area of Chittagong on Sunday afternoon.The local people said a group of miscreants in a truck hurled crude bombs at the area ...

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of India arrested Mollah Masud, listed top terror of the capital city of Dhaka, in Paschimbanga of the neighbouring country.

Police arrested 16 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-Shibir for ‘sabotage plan’ from different places of Dhaka during a drive continuing for 24 hours till Monday ...

Seven people were burnt in an explosion that took place at the ground floor of a four-storey building at Panchabati of Fatulla in Narayanganj on Sunday evening.Police claimed that the ...

Iran and the US aim in talks starting on Sunday in Switzerland to begin closing in on a deal reducing Tehran's nuclear activities to within strict limits after 18 months ...

The Daily Star talked to a number of business groups -- both big and small -- to know the extent of the impact of hartals and the non-stop countrywide blockade ...

A total of 54,481 students got scholarships in the primary terminal examinations 2014. Primary and Mass Education Minister Mostafizur Rahman announced the list of scholarship recipients at a press conference at ...

Ex prime minister Khaledh a Zia'sBarapukuria case will file 5th April Justice Minul Islam Chowdary and Justice J B Am Hassan says of their branch in High court

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that the hartal and blockade enforced by the BNP-Jamaat Alliance have lost the bite, and these are nothing but the programmes of killing ...