A Dhaka court yesterday appointed administrators to look after some of the immovable properties of Benazir Ahmed and his family members.
The Indian Border Security Force yesterday seized 41.49kg gold worth Rs 21.22 crore from five bags left behind by suspected smugglers near Benapole, reportedly the biggest gold haul by Indian security forces along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Bangladeshis were found to be the highest number of irregular migrants reaching the shores of Italy in the first six months of this year.
Police in Manikganj are trying to arrest five men accused of raping a schoolgirl.
A 25-year-old tourist drowned and two others were injured while bathing in the Nikli haor in Kishoreganj yesterday morning.
Two patients with Covid-19 died and at least 620 new Covid-19 cases were recorded by the health directorate in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.
The Indian Border Security Force yesterday seized 41.49kg gold worth Rs 21.22 crore from five bags left behind by suspected smugglers near Benapole, reportedly the biggest gold haul by Indian security forces along the Indo-Bangladesh border.
Sri Lankan security forces raided and partially cleared the main protest camp occupying government grounds in Colombo early yesterday, fuelling fears that President Ranil Wickremesinghe had launched a crackdown a day after being sworn in.
Traffic was halted at some points in the capital for over two hours yesterday as the police stopped vehicular movement from Bijoy Sarani to the airport before the prime minister's landing and leaders and activists of the ruling alliance thronged the road to welcome her.
Twenty-four drug peddlers of Ishwardi upazila surrendered to police yesterday with the promise of giving up drug peddling.
Police yesterday arrested an alleged ringleader of an international human trafficking gang in the district's Teknaf upazila.
A suspected US air strike on a hospital killed 16 people in the Afghan city of Kunduz yesterday, medical charity MSF said, a bombardment that the UN condemned as "inexcusable, and possibly even criminal".
The third season of “Rupchanda-The Daily Star Super Chef”, Bangladesh's biggest culinary competition, jointly organised by Rupchanda and The Daily Star, was launched at The Daily Star Centre yesterday.
Chocolate so healthy it could be eaten as medicine has allegedly been invented by scientists. Scientists at an American chocolate company specialising in herbal technologies claim to have developed the “medicinal” chocolate, which contains only 35 per cent fat.
A private hospital in the capital was sealed yesterday by government authorities following allegations that three newborns died there due to doctors' negligence on Friday night.
Bangladesh and Russia are set to finalise a deal within a couple of months to construct the Rooppur nuclear power plant using two VVER-1200 nuclear reactors that have a 60-year lifespan, making the project cost effective.
Rescue workers searched for a missing cargo ship with 33 aboard off the Bahamas Friday as Hurricane Joaquin battered the island chain, bringing life in the popular tourist destination to a drastic halt.
Ten Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fire in the West Bank yesterday during a raid by troops hunting the murderers of a Jewish settler couple, Palestinian police and medical sources said.
