Indigenous people of Tangail’s Madhupur upazila staged demonstration in the upazila today, bringing an allegation that the forest department is attempting to evict them from their own land in the name of recovering forest lands.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said global adaptation over climate change is still far from the pace of devastation just for lack of funds and political will.

Thirty-eight Bangladeshi boys and girls returned home from India through the Benapole check post this evening after languishing in jail there for two years.

A man has been arrested in Rajshahi for sexually harassing women while being in guise of a beggar.

An independent mayor candidate of Jajira municipality election in Shariatpur has filed a written complaint against Shariatpur-1 lawmaker Md Iqbal Hossain with the returning officer, bringing allegations of violating the electoral code of conduct.

Water transport workers have withdrawn their work abstentions following the authorities' assurance to meet their demand.

Tour operators and tourist guides will have to get registered to offer their services, according to a proposed new law.

Two eighth-graders were killed in a road accident on the Dhaka-Barishal Highway at Hamirdi under Bhanga upazila in Faridpur today.

Ferry services on the Shimulia-Banglabazar route resumed 12 hours after suspension due to dense fog.

Two students of Khulna University, who have been on a hunger strike since Tuesday evening demanding the withdrawal of their suspension order, have been admitted to hospital after they fell sick.

A two-year-old baby boy, allegedly stolen from Bagachhara Bazar in Satkhira’s Sharsha upazila on Wednesday, was rescued from Sonabaria village in Kalaroa upazila on Saturday.

Police arrested a man on Saturday in connection with a case for gang-raping a pregnant woman in Sadar upazila on Wednesday.

Habibur Rahman Habib has found success in squash, a foreign variety of winter vegetable, cultivation in Monirampur upazila of Jashore district.

About a thousand day labourers and others in and around Nagarbari river terminal, in Bera upazila, are being exposed to air pollution due to open-air handling of thousands of tonnes of imported coal.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court stayed for eight weeks a High Court order that issued a travel ban on Md Nazrul Islam Khan, chairman of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL), a non-banking financial institution, in connection with a money laundering case filed against Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder.

Ferry service on Paturia-Daulatdia ghat, on the Padma river, resumed 12 hours after it was suspended due to dense fog.

Two persons were killed as a covered van hit their motorbike on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Munshiganj’s Gazaria upazila early today.

Each time a newborn baby girl sees the light of the world in his area, Sub-Inspector Mosharaf Hossain, in-charge of Tangail’s Kagmari police outpost, greets her with gifts, a personal initiative breaking stereotypes about gender.

Nearly four years after The Daily Star ran a report on the Birshreshtha Hamidur Rahman memorial building that fell into disrepair, at his village home in Khordakhalishpur village of Jhenidah’s Moheshpur upazila, the government has finally started to rebuild it.

A motorcyclist and a community policeman were killed in a road accident when a passenger bus hit the motorcycle in the capital's Hanif Flyover today.