Customs Intelligence officials seized 20.5kgs of gold worth around Tk 10 crore and detained six people, including two Malaysians, in two separate incidents at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday. Of the gold, 14.5kgs were seized from the possession of two female passengers who travelled from Chittagong to Dhaka on Biman Bangladesh Airlines' Kuwait-Chittagong-Dhaka flight, customs officials said.

Once their forefathers had ruled a fairly large territory; once they had a royal throne. But all those glories have faded into a distant past.

Successive governments have made many land-related laws over the years but those have failed to establish people's land rights, speakers said at a seminar yesterday.

A group of Kenyan Muslims travelling on a bus ambushed by Islamist gunmen protected Christian passengers by

He went out of his Mugdapara house in the capital for work around 7:00am yesterday like any other day.

Freedom fighters, war crimes researchers, victim family members, war crimes prosecutors and different pro-liberation organisations

Bangladesh showed an extraordinary progress in human development index (HDI) with an average annual growth of 1.64 percent in the last two and a half decades, which is the highest among the eight South Asian countries. Despite the progress, Bangladesh remains behind Sri Lanka, the Maldives and India on the latest global ranking with a static 142nd position in the HDI, according to the 2015 Human Development Report (HDR) released by the United Nations Development Programme at the planning ministry in Dhaka yesterday.

In tears and shaken with horror, the Bangladesh Under-14 girls saw their preparations for April 25th evening's final against hosts Nepal turn into a nightmare in the wake of a devastating earthquake that claimed nearly 9,000 lives. The young group, who had risen to prominence with the introduction of the Bangamata Primary School Gold Cup football tournament in 2011, saw their hopes of securing the title fade, although that was the last thing on their minds as a Bangladesh Air Force cargo plane whisked them back home.

Life expectancy at birth increased to 70.7 years last year in Bangladesh from 70.4 years in 2013, according to a survey of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel to remain alert to prevent the recurrence of any incident like the 2009 BDR mutiny.

The liberation war affairs ministry has decided to further reduce the age limit for being recognised as freedom fighters to 12 years and four months.

Many raised their eyebrows, some thought he was out of his mind when they came across Mohammad Elias' new business idea some 20

Hunger brought them here. They slashed and cleared the jungle, braving snakes, tigers, and malaria and set up the tea estates.

The celebration of Raj Punnah, a traditional festival of the Bohmong Circle, began in Bandarban yesterday.

It was around 3:30pm yesterday.

At least 219 out of 904 mayoral candidates in the municipality polls are accused in different criminal cases, a civil society platform has claimed.

Two CT scanners of Dhaka Medical College Hospital are out of order, causing serious disruption to patient services.

Bangladeshi migrant workers often don't get expected services from the labour wings of the country's foreign missions despite the fact that they send home remittance of around $14 billion a year. In most cases, officials and staffs at the wings are unresponsive to the needs of the workers abroad, a number of migrant workers and rights activists told The Daily Star yesterday.

Buoyed up by the progress in war crimes trial being held to heal the wounds of the 1971 Liberation War, the nation yesterday pledged to make strides towards a prosperous future on its 45th Victory Day.

Western nations welcomed Saudi Arabia's new Islamic coalition against terrorism, but confusion over its role, even among its own members, may undermine its ambitions of tackling militancy and deflecting international criticism of Riyadh. "We look forward to learning more about what Saudi Arabia has in mind in terms of this coalition," US Defence Secretary Ash Carter said on Tuesday, a comment that underscored the uncertainty over how Riyadh's new initiative would work.