Criminals abducted 25 villagers at gunpoint from Hatimara area of Rangamati's Naniarchar upazila yesterday, said UPDF.

Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Prof Md Akhtaruzzaman has compared the activities of quota reformists with that of Islamist militant outfits like the Taliban and Al-Shabaab.

Three alleged drug peddlers and one alleged robber were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Jhenidah, Mymensingh and Gaibandha yesterday.

In a fictitious claim, a police officer has said that Rajshahi University student Toriqul Islam, also a quota movement leader, was hurt in a “mere scuffle” with some members of the public.

Four of 12 Thai schoolboys were rescued from a flooded cave yesterday as divers launched a daring and dangerous mission to free the children and their soccer coach who have been trapped underground for more than two weeks, officials said.

The seven-member committee formed “to review or reform or cancel” the quota system for the civil service will sit for its first meeting today.

With bandages from toe to thigh on his right leg and eight stitches on left side of his head, Toriqul Islam is unable to turn to any side while lying in his hospital bed.

The expansion of Dhaka city is showing no signs of slowing down. Private developers are pushing the boundaries of the metropolis by building eastwards and what currently exists as rural townships show the promise of being the future Dhaka city. Will we build it right this time, or will an unplanned urbanisation once again be the go-to-method? Martin Rama, chief economist for the South Asia region of the World Bank, talks to Zyma Islam of The Daily Star about the planned development of greater Dhaka.

As darkness descends, a sense of unshakeable foreboding grips Rohingya refugee camps in Balukhali and Kutupalong.

After two days and a session of mediocrity, the Bangladesh cricket team succumbed to an innings and 219-run defeat in the first Test against West Indies in Antigua yesterday. Rookie wicketkeeper-batsman Nurul Hasan scored 64 on the third morning, but it could not avert a capitulation of 144 all out shortly before lunch at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium.

A group of guardians and other citizens yesterday accused the government of playing a dubious role on the quota issue.

The body formed to investigate the cause of death of Rafida Khan Raifa in the privately-run Max Hospital found negligence in treatment as the primary reason.

The Asian Development Bank has approved a grant assistance of $100 million -- the first of an envisaged package totaling $ 200m to help Bangladesh develop basic infrastructure and services for Rohingyas.

Most of the private banks are in trouble due to their recent decision to cap interest rate on deposits at 6 percent as the state-run organisations and corporate groups are unwilling to keep funds with them at such a low rate.

Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was sentenced in absentia to 10 years in prison by a corruption court in Islamabad yesterday, lawyers said, dealing a serious blow to his party's troubled campaign ahead of July 25 elections.

At least eight authorised arms dealers in the country are involved in a syndicate that sells weapons to criminals, claimed law enforcers.

She was labelled as “the enemy of state” much in the style of Ibsen's famous play “An Enemy of the People” by the Malaysian

Her eyes were full of fury and voice quivered with rage. She looked frustrated and also a bit traumatised while narrating the physical assault, verbal abuse and mental torture she endured at the hands of those against quota reform and police.

Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has cautioned lawmakers and AL ticket seekers about intra-party mudslinging.

The Bangladesh cricket team earned itself an unwanted record yesterday when a Kemar Roach-inspired West Indies skittled them out for 43, the country's lowest ever score, on the first day of the first Test against West Indies in Antigua.