A slum dweller in the capital's Bhashantek area has to pay at least Tk 2000 for a 10-feet by 10-feet tin shed room with no ready amenities.

The cabinet approves drafts of three agreements with India which will be signed during the maiden visit of Narendra Modi.

The weekend is finally here and you are all pumped to enjoy it with friends. You think of heading to the most happening restaurant in town, eat till you are full, come home, watch your favourite TV show, and before you know it, your weekend is over.

Office hours during Ramadan will be from 9:00am to 3:30pm for government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous organisations.

Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur sent a list of 710 self-claimed Bangladeshi jobseekers rescued in Malaysia to the ministries of foreign and home affairs in Dhaka for verification.

In a milestone cross-border transport service between Bangladesh and India, trial run of Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala bus service has kicked off.

Detectives arrest two human traffickers and rescued 17 victims in Dhaka. They were being trafficked to Republic of Palau.

Traffic on Panthapath’s southern lane resumes cleared off for danger four days after it was sealed following the collapse of National Bank’s under-construction site.

Detectives claim to have arrested member of Islamic State (Isis) from a house in Baridhara of Dhaka.

Police recover bullet-hit body of teenager from the house of a Bangladesh Chhatra League leader at Madhya Badda in Dhaka.

Dhaka will emerge as a completely clean city in next two and half years, the mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation say.

Customs Intelligence officials seize around 7,000 mobile phone sets worth Tk 20 crore at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

At least seven members of a family suffer burn injuries in a fire that broke out due to gas line explosion at a house of Kalabagan in Dhaka.

Dhaka art aficionados enjoy a scintillating dance-presentation, 'Looking forward to the past', a multi-layered, inter-cultural dance production directed by Donald Byrd, Artistic Director of Spectrum Dance Theater in Seattle.

Shayera Moula who had been with The Daily Star since the age of 15 passed away in the capital's United Hospital last night, succumbing to infections she battled for the past three weeks.

Restaurants in Dhaka city become abuzz with happy customers going to different restaurant and enjoying the delicious food with amazing reduced prices as restaurant week kicks off.

A Dhaka court places on 10-day remand two people arrested on charge of gang-raping a 21-year-old indigenous woman on May 21.

Something as simple and readily available like a piece of string or thread can be turned into a cool wristband.

An alleged drug peddler is killed in a "shootout" with Rapid Action Battalion at Motijheel in Dhaka.

The fire that broke out at a nine-storey building on the Elephant Road in Dhaka was doused this evening.