No Shakib; red missing too

The Tigers wrapped up their home preparation yesterday before their departure for Ireland tomorrow for a triangular series that will lead into the ICC World Cup starting on May 30 in England and Wales.
29 April 2019, 18:00 PM

It was Tarique’s decision

Ending weeks of speculations, four BNP MPs yesterday took oath in line with the party decision, although party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, who too has been elected, did not do so.
29 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Cops among 3 hurt in crude bomb blast

Two traffic constables and a community policeman were injured in a crude bomb blast in the capital’s Gulistan area yesterday evening.
29 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Regulator moves to stop slide in stocks

The stock market regulator yesterday came up with a raft of decisions to halt the fall in share prices for over a month.
29 April 2019, 18:00 PM

No mercy for sexual abusers

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday in parliament said the government will ensure the highest punishment to culprits, if necessary by enacting tougher laws, to prevent sexual harassment in the country.
29 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Clarification

GPH Ispat Ltd has given a clarification in response to a report published in The Daily Star on Sunday with the headline “Dam makeshift, damage extensive”.
29 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Violence mars phase-4 voting in West Bengal

India’s battleground state of West Bengal took the centre stage in the fourth phase of a staggered general election yesterday after clashes broke out between supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party and a regional bloc in Asansol.
29 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Tears, troops on Lankan streets

Sri Lanka’s churches remained shut yesterday forcing Christians to say prayers of grief in private over the Easter suicide attacks that the country’s Roman Catholic leader called “an insult to humanity”.
28 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Situation still grim for children

Last year, the murders and attempted murders of 276 children in the country were cited in 246 news reports published in six leading national dailies, says Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) in its report titled “Bangladesh Child Situation-2018: Newspaper Analysis”.
28 April 2019, 18:00 PM

3 RSO men linked to Burdwan blast jailed

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced three Myanmar nationals to 10 years in jail for their involvement in planning subversive activities in Bangladesh.
28 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Eight killed in three road accidents

At least eight people, including three children, died in separate road accidents in Chandpur, Laxmipur and Dhaka yesterday.
28 April 2019, 18:00 PM

BNP decides to stop MPs-elect from taking oath

The BNP decided to write to the Speaker and the Election Commission to revoke the parliamentary membership of the party’s MPs-elect, if they take oath.
28 April 2019, 18:00 PM

$2b laundered for buying work visas

More than two billion dollars was laundered out of Bangladesh to six major labour-recruiting countries to illegally purchase work visas in 2016, said Transparency International Bangladesh Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman.
28 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Cut delays in trial procedings

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities concerned to make sure that trial proceedings are not delayed.
28 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Beyond belief

On June 20 last year, police arrested two men -- Sonu and Rubel -- and recovered two knives from their possession from the capital’s Geneva camp in Mohammadpur. A third man named Rahi fled the scene, leaving a steel-made machete.
28 April 2019, 18:00 PM

No firm govt grasp over share market

The government doesn’t have full control over the country’s share market, while the banking sector is now in a fragile position, Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said in parliament yesterday.
28 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Nusrat Murder: Principal ‘ordered her killing’

Feni madrasa Principal SM Siraj Ud Doula confessed to ordering the fatal arson attack on Nus-rat Jahan Rafi as she refused to withdraw the sexual harassment charges brought against him, police said.
28 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Mass Campaign Week: Ensure high security

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday instructed the authorities of all key point installations (KPI), including residential hotels and reli-gious institutions, to beef up their security.
28 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Let me see my son before I die

“I am growing old. I am becoming sick… I want to see my son for one last time before I die.” The voice of Saleha Begum, 65, was cracking repeatedly as she sought to know the whereabouts of her son Moazzem Hossain Topu.
27 April 2019, 18:00 PM

Dam makeshift, damage extensive

The Chattogram-based GPH Ispat Ltd has constructed a makeshift dam on a stream bordering the Jangal-Bashbaria reserve forest in Sitakunda to secure water supply to its new factory.
27 April 2019, 18:00 PM