A recent government directive authorising deputy commissioners to monitor and evaluate development projects at the district level has caused an uproar among officials of project implementing agencies.

The jet fuel price has gone up from Tuesday, the 11th hike in 15 months, dealing a fresh blow to the struggling aviation industry at a time when it was getting back up on its feet with the normalisation of air travel once again.

When we heard (February 20, 1952) that the All-Party State Language Action Committee decided against violating Section 144, we got very angry. Around 9:00pm-10:00pm, seven or eight of us met on the east bank of the pond at Fazlul Haque Hall.

US Secretary of State Antony J Blinken has invited Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen to visit Washington DC to mark the 50th year of bilateral ties that began with the emergence of independent Bangladesh half a century ago.

Fortune Barishal wicket-keeper Nurul Hasan Sohan has been fined 20 per cent of his match fee for expressing dissent at an umpiring decision during his side’s Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) encounter against Sylhet Sunrisers at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.

After a fifty from Mahmudul Hasan Joy, an impactful unbeaten cameo by Sunil Narine saw Comilla Victorians snatch away a victory from Sylhet Sunrisers’ grasp during a thrilling Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) encounter under lights at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium today. Comilla won the encounter by four wickets. 

Bangladesh and Greece today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will see 4,000 Bangladeshi workers migrating to the European Union country each year in a regular and orderly manner.

E-commerce platform Evaly’s former chairperson Shamima Narsin's parents today informed the High Court that they were interested to take over the company's responsibility for its revival.

The students of Shahjalal University of Science of Technology (SUST) brought out a fresh procession today after 15 days demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor Prof Farid Uddin Ahmed.

Former South African batter Ashwell Prince has resigned from his position as the Bangladesh batting coach, confirmed the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) cricket operations committee chairman Jalal Yunus to The Daily Star today.

At least 8,016 new infections were recorded and 33 people died from Covid-19 in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

All-rounder Shuvagata Hom struck two consecutive sixes in the final over to help Minister Group Dhaka beat Khulna Tigers by five wickets in a low-scoring Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) contest at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium today. 

The fixtures of Bangladesh national team’s tour of South Africa, scheduled to be held during March-April this year, was announced by Cricket South Africa (CSA) today.  

Kurigram police has formally handed an ancient stone statue of a bull, recovered from the ruined site of a Shiva temple in Kurigram’s Nageshwari upazila in July last year, to the North Bengal Museum.

Cultivation of Boro on about 5,500 hectares of land in the current season seems uncertain due to the filling up of an important canal for a development project in Sarail upazila of Brahmanbaria.

Around 9:00am on February 21, 1952, members of the State Language Action Committee were informed that Dhaka University students were not in agreement with the decisions taken by it and they had decided to break the law if necessary.

The United States today donated additional six million doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to Bangladesh via Covax, bringing the total US vaccine contribution to over 45 million free doses, with millions more scheduled to arrive over the coming months.

At least 30 people have been attacked by foxes at Amrul under Bogura's Shajahanpur upazila since last Saturday.

Members of the medical board, formed to find the cause of 11 zebras’ deaths, found lead in the grass (fed to the animals) in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park in Gazipur.

Two people were killed and three injured as a private car hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Subarnachar upazila of Noakhali today.