Britain and the EU failed to strike a Brexit divorce deal during talks in Brussels yesterday, but said they were "confident" of reaching an accord later this week.

The High Court yesterday directed the government to prepare an action plan with a list of land grabbers for recovering 50 canals in both the Dhaka city corporation areas by July 1 next year.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday requested the cabinet division to take actions against 97 teachers of eight schools and colleges for running coaching centres.

The government is going to build the maiden resort for senior citizens at Sreemangal in Sylhet where people over 60 will get safe residential facilities.

The national helpline 999 is expanding its capacity by three times to help people in trouble as the government is set to re-launch the emergency call service soon.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia is set to appear before a makeshift court today in the capital's Bakshibazar to seek bail in the Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust graft cases.

Adding another feather to their already illustrious caps, two female pilots of Bangladesh Air Force are now all set to join the United Nations Peacekeeping mission in Congo.

Bollywood icon Shashi Kapoor -- a star of 1970s Indian cinema and a member of the Hindi film industry's famous Kapoor family -- died yesterday aged 79 after a long illness, his family said.

He was known for helping others without expecting anything in return.

The Faraaz Hossain Foundation officially started its journey on Saturday with a vision to bring smiles to the less fortunate, to help build future leaders and spread Faraaz's values of courage, friendship and humanity throughout Bangladesh.

A leader of pro-BNP youth organisation Jubo Dal was shot dead by unidentified persons in Chittagong city yesterday evening.

After years of playing cat-and-mouse with police, a man who punctured the tyres of thousands of cars around the southwestern French city of Bordeaux has finally been apprehended.

A college student allegedly hacked his aunt and her two children to death and injured his uncle with a billhook in a dispute over land at Tarakandi village in Kishoreganj's Pakundia upazila Saturday morning.

In the second season of Crown Cement and The Daily Star export idea contest 'Rise High Bangladesh', Dhaka University's team Sept of

A Jubo League man, also chairman of the managing committee of a high school under Amtali upazila in Barguna district, allegedly assaulted the headmaster of the school at about 5:30pm last Saturday.

The executive director of a Jessore-based NGO was shot dead near his house in Jessore town on Saturday night.

Teachers and students continue visiting and expressing solidarity with DU student Walid Ashraf, who is on hunger strike demanding Dhaka University Central Students' Union election.

The daylong National Judicial Conference 2017 will be held today for discussing the relevant issues regarding the judiciary including backlog of cases, digitisation, effective court administration and case management.

In the busiest hour at a superstore in the capital's Gulshan, Shimu Gomez is busy putting an assortment of daily necessities in a specific order near the cash register.

The second Faraaz Hossain Courage Award will be conferred on the winner at a programme in the city's Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel at 5:30pm today.