Bangladesh

Bangladeshi peacekeeper killed in road crash

An official of Bangladesh Army working in UN peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic killed in a road crash on April 9.
13 April 2015, 12:24 PM

Pakistan cricket team arrives

Pakistan cricket team arrives in Dhaka to play a series consisting of six matches – three one-day internationals (ODIs), two Tests and a T20.
13 April 2015, 12:21 PM

HSC tests deferred for city polls

Tests for nine Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent exams, scheduled for April 26, 27 and 28, have been pushed back to May 2, 4 and 16 respectively.
13 April 2015, 11:42 AM

Khaleda may attend Baishakh programme at Nayapaltan office

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia may go to her party’s headquarters at Nayapaltan in Dhaka tomorrow to attend a function on the occasion of Pahela Baishakh.
13 April 2015, 11:05 AM

All set for Pahela Baishakh celebration (Video)

Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the first month of Bangla calendar now is at doorstep. People from all walks of life are ready to celebrate the first day of the new year with much festivity.
13 April 2015, 10:48 AM

No electoral irregularity will be tolerated: CEC

Election Commission will not tolerate any electoral irregularity during Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation polls, the CEC says.
13 April 2015, 08:46 AM

4 vehicles torched in Ctg, Gazipur

Alleged pickets torch and vandalise four vehicles in Chittagong and Gazipur during the countrywide daylong hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami.
13 April 2015, 05:12 AM

Trucker burnt in Comilla petrol bomb attack

A trucker burnt when miscreants hurl a petrol bomb at his vehicle on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Daudkandi upazila of Comilla.
13 April 2015, 04:25 AM

337 more heading home from Yemen

A total of 337 stranded Bangladeshis have headed for home after evacuation from the war-torn country of Yemen.
12 April 2015, 12:05 PM

War crimes: Several appeals to be disposed of by Dec, says AG

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam expresses hope that several appeals filed by convicted war criminals will be disposed of this year.
12 April 2015, 09:33 AM

Tabith, Mahi demand army deployment

BNP-blessed mayoral aspirant Tabith Awal and Bikolpo Dhara Bangladesh-backed candidate Mahi B Chowdhury urge Election Commission to deploy army ahead of Dhaka city polls scheduled for April 28.
12 April 2015, 08:35 AM

SC clears way for Rizvi’s remand

The Supreme Court clears the way for police to take BNP leader Rizvi Ahmed on remand for interrogation in a vandalism case.
12 April 2015, 07:47 AM

Driverless train travels 27km backward in Rajbari

It was a bizarre sight when Rajbari people found a train running backward for 27 kilometers, crossing one station, and all this without the driver.
12 April 2015, 06:28 AM

Political turmoil ate up $2.2b in 3 months

Bangladesh suffers a financial loss of around $2.2 billion in the last three months due to political turmoil, according to a World Bank report.
12 April 2015, 06:07 AM

Adivashi new year procession faces obstruction

Law enforcers obstruct indigenous people of Khagrachhari from bringing out a procession marking ‘Biju’ festival as they failed to show the copy of the permission for holding the programme.
12 April 2015, 05:17 AM

Kamaruzzzman buried

Jamaat leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, who was executed at Dhaka Central Jail last night for his 1971 war crimes, is buried at his village home in Sherpur.
12 April 2015, 04:27 AM

5 killed in Tangail road crash

Five people are killed and eight injured, three of them critically, when a bus hit a stationed truck on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail.
12 April 2015, 04:15 AM

Al Badr organiser Kamaruzzaman executed

On a July morning in 1971, Muhammad Kamaruzzaman marched into Sohagpur, a remote hamlet, and unleashed cold-blooded savagery.
11 April 2015, 18:02 PM

PM inaugurates Mawna Flyover

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the much-awaited 450-metre Mawna flyover on Dhaka Mymensingh highway through unveiling its plaque.
11 April 2015, 13:31 PM

LIVE: Execution of War Criminal Kamaruzzaman

For the latest developments of execution procedures of death row war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, stay tuned with thedailystar.net
11 April 2015, 13:23 PM