Md Soleyman Hossain, a former staff member of The Daily Star, passed away at his home in Savar early today.

Zarghunna Noori has always been a fighter, but the 22-year-old taekwondo champion -- who dreamt of representing Afghanistan at the Olympics -- says she has finally met her match. 

At least 254 patients were hospitalised in 24 hours preceding 8:00am today of whom 57 are from outside Dhaka.

Twenty-four people have died from Covid-19 in 24 hours (till 8am today), according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A man was killed after being hit by a microbus in Dhaka’s Hatirjheel area this afternoon.

Several thousand residents of Gazipur city have lost valuable lands as the city corporation “encroached” on their private property and demolished their buildings to widen streets, drains and footpaths.

The registration for IPTVs will be given soon, and a guideline would also be formulated for this sector, Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud said yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has sought US investment in various potential sectors apart from the existing energy, banking and insurance sectors as Bangladesh is developing its infrastructure and power supply systems to facilitate foreign direct investment.

Frequent cyclones, flooding, riverbank erosion, salinity intrusion, and increased waterlogging are among the typical climate-induced adversities affecting Bangladesh.

Education, if looked beyond its conventional boundaries, forms the very essence of all our actions.

Adam Malik, president of the 26th UN General Assembly, said the East Pakistan crisis should be resolved through bilateral talks between India and Pakistan.

Bangladesh will face tougher challenges in ensuring safe air as the World Health Organisation yesterday announced stringent changes to the Air Quality Guidelines (AQGs) to reduce health hazards caused by air pollution.

Bangladesh’s internet freedom fared worse during the years of the pandemic than the years before, found a new report by international think tank Freedom House.

Pacer Bilal Sami and leg-spinner Izharulhaq Naveed shared nine wickets between them as Afghanistan Under-19s dominated proceedings on the opening day of their only four-day game against hosts Bangladesh at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium yesterday.

At least 229 dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till 8:00 am today, of whom 53 are outside Dhaka.

A new rail route from Chattogram’s Dohazari to Cox’s Bazar will open on December 16 the next year, Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan said today.

Retired schoolteacher Maya Rani Ghose was strangled to death at her Rajshahi city home by one of her former students -- apparently for her gold jewellery.

Some locals allegedly beat up a teenager and shaved his head for “singing baul songs and lighting candles in the house” in Bogura’s Shibganj upazila.

After 543 days of school closure, one of the most protracted education gaps in the world that was caused by the Covid-19 pandemic,

Abul Fateh, one of the principal delegates of Bangladesh to the UN, told a news conference in New Delhi today that nothing