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Gayeshwar Roy arrested

Police last night arrested two BNP leaders, including its Standing...
Vote for 'boat'

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought vote for “boat”, the...
BNP activists snatch fellows from police

BNP activists yesterday attacked a prison van and snatched two...
Tests await Tigers in first Test

It will be a test for the Tigers to overcome the disappointing...

Contrasts in political realities

It's a stark contrast. ...
Khaleda in court

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday claimed that the Zia...
Commentary: ‘Analogue law’ for ‘Digital Bangladesh’

This government's sterling achievement of setting in motion a ...

Back Page

Mother, daughter detained 11 years after 'abduction'

Police yesterday detained a mother and her daughter, who were...
Appointment of CJ likely tomorrow

The new chief justice is likely to be appointed by tomorrow as the...
Banks asked to lower their loan-deposit ratio

The central bank yesterday instructed banks to lower their loan...
China directs users to approved VPNs as firewall tightens

China yesterday vowed to force both local and foreign companies and...

Admission Tests: DU expels 15 students over fraudulence

The Dhaka University authorities last night expelled 15 students...
Missing BNP leaderarrested by Rab

Rab yesterday confirmed that it arrested BNP leader Anisur Rahman...
Amazon opens own rainforest in Seattle

Amazon.com Inc on Monday opened a rainforest-like office space in...
UK worse off under any Brexit scenario

Britain's House of Lords begins scrutiny of a key piece of...

Journalistic acts won't be considered as spying

Two senior ministers yesterday said the Digital Security Act-2018...
Deadlock ends at Benapole

Trade activities through Benapole Land Port resumed Monday night...
Kim Jong-Nam murder suspect met with 'N Korean agent'

One of two women on trial for the Cold War-style murder of the...
Turkey detains top medical group members over Syria criticism

Turkey yesterday detained all the top members of the country's...

Business

Banks asked to speed up loan recovery

Bangladesh Bank yesterday expressed dissatisfaction over banks'...
Give supporting documents for VAT exemption

The National Board of Revenue has asked Premier Bank to furnish...
Asia's 2018 refined oil product demand to rise 2pc

Asia's fuel demand will grow by 2 percent in 2018 as the...
Eurozone economy growth hits highest in decade

Growth in the eurozone shot up in 2017, putting Europe at the...
Progress in Nafta talks, but very slow: US trade official

Talks aimed at revamping the North American Free Trade Agreement...

Bonik Barta, BIDS honour entrepreneurs

Three entrepreneurs have been honoured by the Bonik Barta newspaper...
GP profit rises 21.4pc

Grameenphone's net profit rose 21.4 percent year-on-year to Tk...
Indian gold demand wanes

Gold prices in India, the world's second-biggest user of the...
France posts fastest growth in 6yrs

The French economy notched up its fastest growth in six years in...
Doing business in S Korea getting harder

More than three in five European Union executives say doing...

Ensure ease of doing business: DCCI

The Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry yesterday proposed that...
Outline of private sector pension in next budget: Muhith

The government will present a detailed outline of the private...
BOJ should stick with Abenomics, whoever next governor is: Japan PM's adviser

The next Bank of Japan governor should maintain the central bank&...
India moves to stub out tobacco industry rights

The Indian government is pushing the Supreme Court to apply a...

Sports

Vlasichev knocks Saif out of AFC Cup

Kyrgyz forward Anatoliy Vlasichev scored a hattrick as Saif...
I know Tigers' mentality: Chandika

Things were looking pretty rosy for Sri Lanka ahead of the first...
City break bank for Laporte

Manchester City completed the signing of Aymeric Laporte on Tuesday...
Italian FA fails to elect president

The Italian football federation (FIGC) sank further into crisis on...
Icardi says 'Bye Bye'

Inter captain Mauro Icardi added fuel to speculation that a 110...

'Blame yourself, not the pitch'

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan said...
All eyes on the pitch

The importance of the surface for the first Test at the Zahur Ahmed...
Ali trading the ring for the booth

Five-time world kickboxing champion Ali Jacko has traded the boxing...
United are a 'happy camp'

Jose Mourinho said Manchester United are a "happy camp"...

Mahmudullah means business

When he was dropped from the Bangladesh Test team for their...
DPL fixtures announced

Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) released the full fixture of the...
Four clubs yet to send names

The Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) is still waiting for the...
Colourful opening ceremony planned

The Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) has decided to hold a...

Editorial

Workers' safety must come first

We are shocked at the recent deaths of two workers at the...

Muzzling freedom of expression

We urge the government to reconsider the Digital Security Act 2018...

Opinion

Rechasing Norms

Somehow, we are not reacting fast enough. Somehow complacency is...
Regional rivalries threaten to fuel the fire in Syria and Iran

Turkish allegations of Saudi, Emirati and Egyptian support for the...

How financing to tackle climate change can be mobilised

At the recently concluded two-day international conference on...

Banglish ban and our dangerous obsession with force

It felt like déjà vu when State Minister for Information Tarana...

Letters

Ensure security before repatriation

The Daily Star published an op-ed titled “Rohingya repatriation...

City

Bus owners observe strike in Khulna

Inter-district bus owners yesterday kept their vehicles off the...
Another HC judge embarrassed to hear plea

Another High Court judge yesterday felt embarrassed to hear a writ...
Light tremor felt in Rajshahi

A light tremor shook Rajshahi and its surrounding areas last night...
Shamim Osman postpones Feb 3 rally

Awami League leader and lawmaker Shamim Osman has postponed a rally...
Social worker Khalek dies

Abdul Khalek, a renowned social worker and businessman of...
Booklovers rejoice, fair starts tomorrow

A total of 455 publishers will participate in this year's Amar...
Participation increases, discrimination remains

The participation of Bangladeshi women in labour force has...
Fellows demand review of decision

Protesting the recommendation for suspension of two Jahangirnagar...
Admission seekers' demo shuts Nilkhet

Admission seekers of seven colleges affiliated with Dhaka...
Justice Sayeed's birth anniversary today

Today is the ninety sixth birth anniversary of late Justice Abu...
Prof Amran Comilla University VC

Dr Amran Kabir Chowdhury, professor of Dhaka University's...

BCL activist stabbed in intra-party fued

An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Government Hazi...
Habiganj SP summoned

The High Court yesterday summoned the superintendent of police of...
Contradiction in IOs, prosecution witnesses’ statements

The defence lawyer for Huji leader Abu Sayeed alias Dr Zafar...
Journo sued under section 57 for 'defamatory status'

Journalist Anis Alamgir was sued yesterday for posting a ...
Negligent employers, unaware workers major hurdle: Study

Negligence of employers in informal sectors and lack of awareness...
Action if books hurting religious sentiment found

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia...
Digital security law will hamper press freedom

BNP on Tuesday alleged that the Digital Security Bill approved by...
One to die, nine acquitted in Delwara murder case

A Chittagong court yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing a...
ICT seeks probe report against 2 Habiganj men March 11

The International Crimes Tribunal-1 yesterday directed the...
Road accidents kill 1, injure 2

A man has been killed and two others have been injured in road...
90 maund of jatka seized in Barisal

Coastguard and fisheries department seized 90 maund of jatka (hilsa...

Two ‘robbers’ shot in capital

Two alleged robbers were injured when police shot them in the...
Prime accused Saiful gives confessional statement

Businessman Saiful Haque, a prime accused in a case filed over...
Jasas leader goes ‘missing’ in Sylhet

A leader of Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha (Jasas), the...
Wage board for journos outcome of combined efforts: Inu

Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu yesterday said the formation...
BNP briefs foreign diplomats over Khaleda graft case

BNP yesterday briefed foreign diplomats in Dhaka about a corruption...
Rubina might walk again

After the sedatives wore out, she found herself in a bed at the...
Foreigner held with drone at Dhaka airport

An American was detained with a drone at Hazrat Shahjalal...
Preserve Nawab Faizunnesa's legacy

Nawab Faizunnesa's contribution towards women's education...
Create environment for voluntary return of Rohingyas

The United States has said it will continue to call upon the...
DoE fines iron factory in Ctg

The Department of Environment (DoE) fined an iron-rod manufacturing...

Country

Newborns stay on floor

Believe it or not, a good number of newborn babies with their...
Fair to promote flower farming

A 10-day flower exhibition highlighting the spirit of flower...
'Punish rapist, molester of Marma girls'

Speakers at a human in the town yesterday demanded immediate arrest...
Criminals still at large

The youths, who were allegedly involved in gang-raping a schoolgirl...
Employer sent to jail

A court in Tangail yesterday sent a trader to jail in a case filed...

Cold spell hinders growth of jujube

Nearly 1,000 growers of jujube, a fruit known locally as boroi, are...
'Restart operation of Hili rly station'

The people of Hakimpur upazila of the district yesterday demanded...
Bridge lying collapsed for two years

Ramdakua bridge on Sundarganj-Ulipur road across a branch of the...
Elderly trader beaten dead

An elderly trader was beaten to death yesterday in Sakhipur upazila...
Municipal employees won't leave demand for govt salary

The three-day work abstention by around 32,000 officials and...

Lone bamboo bridge only means

People of about 100 villages in Dhobaura upazila had been suffering...
Two missing as trawler, launch collide

Two men went missing after a launch and a trawler collided head-on...
Encroachment on govt land

A local influential man is erecting a wooden structure around a...
Pledge not to take, peddle drugs

Thirty-one drug users and peddlers, including a former union...
Mentally ill man takes own life

A mentally challenged man allegedly committed suicide yesterday by...

World

Separatists capture Aden

Separatists in war-ravaged Yemen yesterday surrounded the...
Puigdemont's comeback bid delayed

Catalonia was plunged into further uncertainty yesterday as the...
Bomb kills 8 Shias in NW Pakistan

A roadside bomb yesterday killed eight people including three women...
UN: 60,000 N Korean children may starve

An estimated 60,000 children face potential starvation in North...

US lifts ban on refugees

The United States will resume admissions for refugees from 11...
Tests link Syria stockpile to largest sarin attack

The Syrian government's chemical weapons stockpile has been...
Colombia freezes peace talks with ELN rebels

Colombia's president on Monday froze peace negotiations with...
Eight-month-old girl raped in Delhi

An eight-month-old Indian girl was recovering yesterday in hospital...

China as big a threat to US as Russia

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Russia will target US mid-term...
Afghan peace will have to be won on the battlefield

Afghanistan said yesterday the Taliban would have to be defeated on...
Ten killed in Brazil prison clash: official

Fighting between gangs at a prison in Brazil's northeastern...
56 people still held; $107b recovered

Saudi Arabia's attorney general said yesterday $107 billion...

Arts & Entertainment

IGCC organises an evening of Kathak dance

Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC), High Commission of India,...
Bangla Khayal Utshab begins this evening

Channel i is organising its annual “Bangla Khayal Utshab 2018” at...

Jaya to play Supriya Devi in remake

Veteran West Bengal actor Supriya Devi breathed her last on January...
Back pain forces Rani Mukerji to cancel shoot

Actor Rani Mukerji cancelled filming for a show owing to a serious...

Unleashed IFFR launches VOD platform

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Monday launched...

Shift

The cars that made us

For me it was my cousin's wedding car - a bright red W123 Merc...

Lexus Lf1Limitless Concept

The folks who designed this new Lexus crossover concept at CALTY...

DCCCB Meet 2018

DCCCB Meet 2018