In the end, a greater sense of unity and togetherness prevailed. What truly set this Pahela Baishakh festival apart was the scale of public participation: members of about 28 different ethnic minority ...

Bangladesh skipper Nigar Sultana Joty is enjoying the form of her life as yet another blistering 59-ball 83 from the wicketkeeper-batter helped her side to a 34-run victory over Scotland in their ...

A tin-roofed room used for storing straw was burnt down at the house of Saddam Hossain, president of the banned student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), at Sathkhamar village in ...

Pakistan Foreign Secretary Amna Baloch will arrive in Bangladesh tomorrow to hold the Foreign Office Consultation (FOC), 15 years after the last such diplomatic engagement, as Dhaka and Islamabad are ...

Twenty Bangladeshi nationals, who had fallen victim to human trafficking and were subsequently trapped in Myanmar, returned to the country today. Most of the returnees, aged between 16 and 22, arrived ...

Md Monowar Hossain has been withdrawn and attached to the Kishoreganj Police Lines, confirmed Kishoreganj Superintendent of Police Mohammad Hasan Chowdhury to The Daily Star this evening. He however ...

Police arrested a man today in Kalmakanda upazila of Netrokona over the alleged rape of a 13-year-old madrasa student. The accused is Mozammel Hossain, 55, a grocery shop owner from Lengura union of ...

Bangladesh skipper Nigar Sultana Joty is enjoying the form of her life as yet another blistering 59-ball 83 from the wicketkeeper-batter helped her side to 276 for six -- the Tigresses’ highest total ...

India's Enforcement Directorate (ED) today filed a chargesheet against Congress MPs Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, and Sam Pitroda, the party's overseas unit chief, in the National Herald money ...

Novoair, a Bangladeshi private airline company, returned to its normal operations today after adjusting its schedule to allow foreign buyers to inspect its five ATR aircrafts.

An Eye and a Leg” has been described as "a darkly humorous and surreal take on the trope of the ‘expiring’ South Asian woman" ...

A case has been filed against three Jubo Dal leaders under the Speedy Trial Act for disrupting Pahela Baishakh celebrations organised by the Atpara Upazila administration in Netrokona. The case was ...