Twenty-six eminent personalities today sought Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s intervention to hold the trial of the Narayanganj teenager Tanwir Muhammad Taqi murder case immediately.

An accused in three human trafficking cases is killed in a “gunfight” with police in Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has introduced a hotline to allow Bangladeshi expatriates to lodge complaints about irregularities and corruption.

In the run up to a planned sailing expedition involving countries of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), two Indian Navy boats have begun a three-month journey.

The Supreme Court fines two private universities Tk 10 lakh each for enrolling more than 50 students to their law departments in a semester, violating University Grants Commission (UGC) rules.

Election to the students’ council -- a concept aimed at practicing democratic norms from childhood -- has began at all government primary schools across the country.

A woman and her daughter are killed and five others injured as a bus carrying them overturns on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur.

Nearly a 22-kilometre stretch of an age-old levee along the Jamuna river in Gaibandha’s Saghata upazila remains in a vulnerable state for long and might breach during the upcoming monsoon season.

Unidentified criminals shot a local Awami League leader to death and left five others critically injured in Bandarban Sadar upazila, police say.

A 70-year-old man is sent to jail after he was caught red-handed by villagers while attempting to rape a minor girl and handed over to police in Thakurgaon.

The Chief Editor of Ekattor Television Mojammel Babu says it is not the government’s job to gag media, yet it continues to do so even when media broadcasts the truth.

A rare Nilgai, once believed to be extinct, was rescued by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members from Chapainawabganj’s Shibganj upazila yesterday night.

Bangladesh Bank will launch a regular currency note of Tk 200 denomination alongside commemorative gold and silver coins worth Tk 100 on March 17.

Any unnecessary panic over coronavirus will intensify danger and create obstacles to preventing probable infection, says Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

Another sex worker in Rajbari’s Daulatdia was buried following formal Islamic funeral customs today.

As The Daily Star honours students who achieved extraordinary marks in their O- level and A-level exams, at its award giving ceremony, one common dream seeped through the hall -- that the students would build the Bangladesh of tomorrow.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sharing a light moment with sister Sheikh Rehana and daughter Saima Wazed Hossain at the exhibition “Lighting the Fire of Freedom - Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman” on February 21.

Bangladesh Publisher and Book-sellers Association says they will keep their bookshops across the country close on February 24, protesting the government initiative of stopping the publication and circulation of “guide books”.

The fire that broke out at a cotton factory at Millgate area under Tongi Police Station in Gazipur today has been brought under control.

A man is beaten to death, allegedly by his nephew, over land dispute in Sadar upazila of Patuakhali.