Banglalink shut down its headquarters in Dhaka and all other offices in the country yesterday, following a standoff between the management and employees over the sacking of an official. The company, which is the second largest mobile operator in the country with 32 million subscribers, said the…

While the cricket has been struggling to keep its existence in the Caribbean Islands, West Indies youngsters showed the ‘light at the end of the…

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court yesterday upheld a High Court order that had granted bail to acting editor of vernacular Daily Amar Desh Mahmudur Rahman in a case filed under the ICT Act. The case was filed in 2012 against him under the Information and Communication Technology Act for publishing…

A group of 13 men allegedly tied up and thrashed two teenage boys in Rajshahi district, accusing them of stealing a mobile phone, and allegedly recorded the entire incident on video. Among the accused are an Army sergeant and a police constable. One person has been arrested in this connection. The victims…

Six defamation cases were filed against The Daily Star Editor Mahfuz Anam in Sylhet, Patuakhali, Rangamati,Netrakona and Dinajpur yesterday for carrying ‘confusing’ and ‘defamatory’ reports in his English daily about Awami League president Sheikh Hasina during the 2007-08 military-backed…

The Supreme Court (SC) yesterday rejected the leave-to-appeal petition filed by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia against a High Court order on a plea for scrapping testimony of the plaintiff in the Zia Orphanage Trust case, reports UNB. A five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice…

Seven people were killed as a truck crashed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Mymensingh-Netrakona road in Tarakanda upazila of Mymensingh yesterday, reports UNB. The identities of the deceased could not be ascertained immediately. Officer-in-charge of Tarakanda Police Station Mazharul Haque said the…

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Barack Obama held frank talks on Syria amid US concern over Turkish shelling of Kurdish militia targets in northern Syria days before a ceasefire deal is due to take hold, reports AFP from Moscow. Putin took the call from Obama and both sides…