An assistant sub-inspector of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has been demoted and one of its constables has faced a cut in salary for 10 years after a probe found them guilty of helping some Nepalis flee during last year’s anti-casino drive.

The Daily Star journalist Mohammad Jamil Khan received double awards from the Crime Reporters Association Bangladesh (CRAB) for his investigative report on narcotics, and woman and child repression categories.

Japan has decided to ban all new entries of foreign nationals from December 28 to the end of January following the detection of a new variant of the coronavirus in arrivals from Britain, Nikkei reported today.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Shafiqul Islam today stressed the need for setting up traffic police boxes and citizen service centres in unused areas under flyovers in Dhaka to ease the sufferings of traffic policemen and ensure shelter for them.

India’s government detained at least 75 Kashmiri political leaders and activists to forestall political unrest after an alliance of Kashmir’s regional political parties won a local election, leaders and a police official have said.

The Dhaka University (DU) authorities have sought opinion from teachers and students on TSC's 'overall development and expansion initiatives' amid criticism over the matter.

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq has said that the government is working to incorporate the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) provisions in different existing laws of the country to make commercial dispute resolution easier and less time consuming.

Britain and the European Union on Saturday published the full text of the post-Brexit trade agreement aimed at governing their relationship when the UK definitively leaves the bloc's single market in just five days' time.

A group of wildlife welfare activists today called upon the government to take urgent steps to protect endangered Asian elephants in the Chattogram region.

The incident of 17 gold bars mugged from two brothers in Rajshahi city four days ago was apparently staged by one of the siblings.

The European Union began a vaccine rollout Saturday, even as countries in the bloc were forced back into lockdown by a new strain of the virus, believed to be more infectious, that continues to spread from Britain.

India’s first driverless train operations on Delhi Metro network will begin its journey on Monday (December 28).

Some 33 Bangladeshis, who returned from India last night through Benapole border in Jashore, have been sent to institutional quarantine as they didn't have Covid-19 negative certificates with them.

Two construction workers were killed when a wall collapsed in the port city’s Love Lane area under Chattogram Kotwali Police Station this morning.

Thirty people have died from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram K Doraiswami today laid emphasis on an increased collaboration between Bangladeshi and Indian young artists to put together new ideas of art and reach out to more people through art.

Faridpur police have arrested nine members of a robbery gang from different places across the country in a case filed for committing robbery at a house in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur.

Detective branch of police held five alleged members of a drug-peddling gang and seized 220 pieces of yaba tablets from their possession in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila last evening.

Four people were injured in a shooting in the German capital Berlin in the early hours of Saturday, police said.

Turkey is enacting precautions for international travel, requiring a negative Covid-19 test for passengers to enter the country starting Monday until March.