You don't pay back a favour; instead, you help someone else who in turn favours another person -- this is the moto of Facebook group “Pay It Forward Bangladesh”.

Eight-year-old Afsana along with her mother was waiting on a Dhaka court premises with a hope to catch a glimpse of her father.

The new Digital Security Act (DSA) is an attack on freedom of expression that is even more repressive than the legislation it replaced, Amnesty International said in a new briefing published yesterday.

The Jatiya Party yesterday started selling nomination forms for the upcoming 11th parliamentary election.

In the third season of Crown Cement and The Daily Star export idea contest, 'Rise High Bangladesh', Dhaka University Institute of Business Administration team The Wildlings became the champion for their innovative idea of producing mosquito repellent from chicken skin.

PROF AKM FAZLE HUSSAIN is president's Endowed Distinguished Chair in Engineering, Science, and Medicine and senior adviser to the president of Texas Tech University.

Facebook on Friday said it will no longer require employees to resolve sexual harassment claims via arbitration, mirroring a move by Google.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena dissolves parliament and calls a general election for January 5 in a move that is to likely deepen the country's political crisis.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a "gunfight" in Teknaf yesterday.

The UN has said it gives priority to an inclusive, credible and transparent election in Bangladesh.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev issued a stinging critique of the government's record on corruption and press freedom Friday, saying "the foundations of democracy are being threatened to a critical degree".

Libya's key political players are set to meet global leaders in Italy next week, in the latest bid by major powers to kickstart a long-stalled political process and trigger elections.

President Donald Trump's new acting Justice Department chief Matthew Whitaker drew tough criticism Friday over his denial of Russia's meddling in the 2016 elections and his past involvement in a company fined millions for bilking clients.

The Election Commission may extend the deadline for political parties to inform it about their decision to contest the upcoming parliamentary polls under any alliance.

A Garo woman was allegedly raped by two men in the district's Sreebardi upazila.

Just yesterday Bangladesh became adults in the longest format of the game as the Tigers stepped into the 18th year since playing their inaugural Test match. However in terms of growing in this format the Tigers are still in their infancy.

Unpaid since May, about 300 Bangladeshi migrant workers are struggling in a Qatar labour camp that has no running water and power and many of them have become sick.

Dhaka has urged Beijing to encourage Myanmar to create a conducive environment for a speedy return of Rohingyas to their home in Rakhine.

A Somali-born man set fire to a pickup truck laden with gas cylinders in the centre of the Australian city of Melbourne yesterday and stabbed three people, killing one, before he was shot by police in a rampage they called an act of terrorism.

A plan to start repatriating Rohingyas back to Myanmar is premature and the refugees are "terrified" about leaving Bangladesh where they sought refuge, dozens of aid agencies working in the region said yesterday.