Captain (relieved) Kismat Hasem, who was handed down life term imprisonment in the historic jail killing case, dies in Canada

Legal action will be taken against accused in criminal cases if they run for Dhaka city polls without securing bail, DB official says

The nation is celebrating the 45th Independence and National Day today with due solemnity and festivity

The most popular search engine, Google, has outlaid its cover page with green and red portraying the essence of Bangladesh's independence

The United States has said the violent political impasse in Bangladesh unfortunately is impeding the economic progress

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) allegedly pick up four members of the Detective Branch (DB) of police at Comilla frontier after they entered into the no-man's land to arrest a Bangladeshi man

Haji Mohammad Salim is likely to step aside from mayoral race in the upcoming Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) elections upon advice from the Awami League high command.

President Abdul Hamid invites BNP Chief Khaleda at his official residence Bangabhaban in Dhaka to attend programme marking the Independence Day tomorrow

All banks in Dhaka and Chittagong metropolitan areas will stay open this weekend – Friday and Saturday – for the upcoming city corporation polls

Pro-BNP professionals suggest extending deadline for submission of nomination for the Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections by two to three days

Two more arson victims, who suffered severe burns in separate firebomb attacks in Chandpur and Magura, die at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital

10 British MPs move so that the UK government put pressure on Bangladesh to stop disappearances and extra-judicial killings.

The trial of war criminals passes yet another year with two special war crimes courts having delivered eight verdicts so far

State Minister for Finance M Abdul Mannan told the parliament that the government would take stern actions against banks concerned if the allegation of funding militancy is proved

BNP will decide in two days whether it would field any candidates in the upcoming Dhaka and Chittagong city corporation elections, a senior leader of the party says

Bangladeshi labourer Helal Uddin, who was kidnapped by militants in Libya on March 6, talks with his family in Jamalpur over phone and expects release in 2/3 days.

The High Court questions the legality of “police torture” on ABM Mizanur Rahman, Baufal correspondent of Bangla daily Prothom Alo

The Daily Star O- & A-Level Awards programme at Mirpur Indoor Stadium on March 28, 2015

Investigators have primarily found evidence against eight suspected war criminals of Jamalpur for their alleged crimes against humanity committed during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

The newly elected president and general secretary of Dhaka Taxes Bar Association fail to meet BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia as police intercepted them in front of her Gulshan office.